We love good sci-fi… and we’re not the only ones. There are hundreds of magazines and publishers seeking speculative, slipstream, and sci-fi stories. And, better yet, many of them have the budget to pay for contributions. Here’s our list of writing markets which publish science-fiction. All the literary magazines listed here accept submissions from anywhere…
Tag: Sci-Fi
Literary Lists: Sci-Fi Short Stories
The short story is the perfect form for sci-fi. It allows a writer to explore a big idea in a very small space. Each of the stories listed here imagines a world that’s different from our own in some brilliant or terrible way – with few aliens or spaceships in sight…
Cascading Failures of the Heart
They will never know they are perfect for each other. Theoretically. Algorithmically. A solved equation of two strangers. Objectively a cosmic match. As objects moving through the universe are drawn toward each other by their natures. They’ll never know they should have found each other and been as beautiful and strange and full of fire…
Pretty Little Chestburster
face-hugged from the black then ditched like a flesh vessel, the worst of it now is wondering where you are. who you’re with. glowing on every grimy corner, I wear you so heavy it feels impossible you could be anywhere but curled beneath my ribs, preparing to pop. Stephen Ground is a multi-faceted writer and…
Endless Dream
We both knewwhat was coming,but still we argueduntil the end. Until the attendantssecured the maskover my faceand lowered meslowly into stasis. At the last secondyou put your handup to the glass,just like in a movie;I was too druggedto lift mine,but tried to tell youwith my eyes,It’s not too lateyou can still join meon the other…
Nan-e
Nan-e, this is a messageTo say: I love you.With mum busyYou make me Content. Wake me With musicSpeak Latin At breakfastPull lessons from cloudsChart progress. You,Set food remindersSet pill remindersNan-e,Count my stepsGuard me from Germs and Conditions;Save myCookies, readBed-time storiesOver speakersAt night; I imagineThe next episodes Of my favourite showsWithout your parentalControls. Nan-e, remember When…
Do Something Amazing Today
A blood van has just parked outside. Don’t look surprised; you’ve let the summonses pile up over the past fortnight or so. A man and a woman get out. He checks your house number. She opens the boot and gets the equipment for taking blood and, where necessary, bodily restraint. Whichever one’s knocking, they make…
98 Ianthe
Previously published in Shimmer. You used to be in the band; now you work on the asteroid. People you have to work with, they ask about it all the time when they find out. And they always find out – somebody always tells them. They all want to know what that’s like. “You used to…
The Keepers
Carla and I draw our blood in the auditorium. They collect our specimens in Dixie cups and send them to a laboratory. Do it! Do it! they urge us. We disrobe and I masturbate onto their microscope slides. My performance improves when I look at Carla’s breasts. My performance diminishes when I look at Carla’s…
Sweepers
Manhattan. They bought the island for beads and built it up into a forest of steel and glass. I used to spit in executives’ cobb salads at the cafeteria, listen to them talk about eating little companies, and look out over their shoulders at all the buildings spiking up, gray, white, and shining, like they…