online
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science fiction magazine
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Science fiction magazines traditionally featured speculative fiction in short story, novelette, nov ...
(), run by a joint
British
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* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
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* British English, ...
- US team of editors. The magazine was launched in January 2005 and releases issues four times a year, with stories, articles, and reviews in both
HTML
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and
PDF
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formats. At times (notably 2006–7, 2010–11) issues appeared more sporadically than this.
Contents
''The Future Fire'' publishes both fiction and nonfiction. For fiction it publishes
Speculative Fiction
Speculative fiction is a term that has been used with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) meanings. The broadest interpretation is as a category of fiction encompassing genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, na ...
,
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyber ...
and
Dark Fantasy
Dark fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy literary, artistic, and cinematic works that incorporate disturbing and frightening themes of fantasy. It often combines fantasy with elements of horror or has a gloomy dark tone or a sense of horror and dr ...
, with a focus on social and political themes and
mundane
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rather than
hard SF
Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell's ''Islands of Space'' in the Novem ...
. In the area of nonfiction it publishes reviews and interviews with people such as
Cory Doctorow
Cory Efram Doctorow (; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog ''Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of ...
, author of ''
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
''Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom'' is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow. Concurrent with its publication by Tor Books, Doctorow released the entire text of the novel unde ...
'', and
Kevin Warwick
Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954) is an English engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University. He is known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, and has also done ...
the
Cyborg
A cyborg ()—a portmanteau of ''cybernetic'' and ''organism''—is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline.
scientist, articles on
new media
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,
posthumanism
Posthumanism or post-humanism (meaning "after humanism" or "beyond humanism") is an idea in continental philosophy and critical theory responding to the presence of anthropocentrism in 21st century thought. It encompasses a wide variety of bran ...
, and
artificial intelligence
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. In 2010 ''The Future Fire'' published themed issues on
Feminist science fiction
Feminist science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction (abbreviated "SF") focused on theories that include feminist themes including but not limited to gender inequality, sexuality, race, economics, reproduction, and environment. Feminist ...
Neil Ayres
Neil George Ayres is an English short fiction writer, born in east London in 1979. He grew up in Tower Hamlets, Essex and Spain.
His fiction includes the literary novel, ''Nicolo's Gifts'', and short speculative fiction published in many internat ...
*
Bruce Boston
Bruce Boston (born 1943) is an American speculative fiction writer and poet.
Early years
Bruce Boston was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California.Diane SeversonInterview with Bruce Boston''Amazing Stories'' March 15, 2013 (accessed S ...
*
Rebecca Buchanan
''Eternal Haunted Summer'' is an ezine dedicated to Pagan poetry and short fiction. It also features reviews of Pagan works and interviews with Pagan authors, as well as reviews and interviews with authors of works that might interest a Pagan audi ...
*
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Silvia Moreno-Garcia (born 25 April 1981) is a Mexican Canadian novelist, short story writer, editor, and publisher.
Early life and education
Moreno-Garcia was born 25 April 1981, and raised in Mexico. Both her parents worked for radio stations. ...
*
Maria Grech Ganado
Maria Grech Ganado (born 1943, in Lija), considered to be from Floriana, is a Maltese author and academic.
Education
Grech Ganado obtained her secondary education at St Joseph High School (Valletta) the Marija Regina Secondary School, in Hamrun ...
*
Terry Grimwood
Terry Grimwood (formerly Terry Gates-Grimwood) is a British writer of horror and science fiction. He publishes The Exaggerated Press. He has written and directed three plays, and is married to Regional Director Debra Wilkins.http://69flavorsofp ...
*
Rhys Hughes
Rhys Henry Hughes (born 1966, Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh fantasy writer and essayist.
Career
Born in Cardiff, Hughes has written in a variety of forms, from short stories to novels.
His long novel ''Engelbrecht Again!'' is a sequel to Mauric ...
*
Vylar Kaftan
Vylar Kaftan is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. A Clarion West Workshop graduate, she lives on the U.S. West Coast.
Kaftan's short story "Civilisation" is included in Farah Mendlesohn's anthology '' Glorifying Terrorism'', and ...
*
Petra Kuppers
Petra Kuppers (born 1968) is a community performance artist and a disability culture activist. She is a professor of English, Women's and Gender Studies, Theater and Dance, and Art and Design, teaching mainly in Performance Studies and Disability ...
*
Alison Littlewood
Alison Littlewood is a British author of horror novels and short stories. She also writes under the name Alison J. Littlewood and the pen name A. J. Elwood. She currently lives in Doncaster, South Yorkshire with her partner.
Bibliography
*''A ...
*
Sandra McDonald
Sandra McDonald is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
She is a graduate of Ithaca College, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine. She also spent eight years as an officer i ...
*
Sarah Pinsker
Sarah Pinsker is an American science fiction and fantasy author. A nine-time finalist for the Nebula Award, Pinsker's debut novel '' A Song for a New Day'' won the 2019 Nebula for Best NovelSteven Pirie
* Malena Salazar Maciá
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Sofia Samatar
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Early life
Samatar was born in 1971 in northern Indiana, United States. Her father was the Somali scholar, historian and writer Said Sheikh Samatar. ...
*
Brett Alexander Savory
Brett Savory is a freelance writer, editor, and web designer. He lives in Canada with his wife, writer and editor, Sandra Kasturi.
Bibliography
Novels
* ''A Perfect Machine'' (Angry Robot Books, February 2017)
* ''In and Down'' (Brindle & Gla ...
*
Benjanun Sriduangkaew
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Lavie Tidhar
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*
Jo Walton
Jo Walton (born 1964) is a Welsh and Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She is best known for the fantasy novel ''Among Others'', which won the Hugo Award, Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012, and ''Tooth and Claw (novel), Tooth ...
*
Aliya Whiteley
Aliya Whiteley (born 1974) is a British novelist, short story writer and poet.
Biography
Aliya Whiteley was born in Barnstaple, North Devon, in 1974 and grew up in the seaside town of Ilfracombe which formed the inspiration for many of her stor ...
*
Lynda Williams
Lynda Williams (born February 17, 1958) is a Canadian science fiction author and blogger.
Williams' fiction is centered on a series of ten novels set in the fictional Okal Rel Universe and published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishi ...
And included illustrations and artwork by:
* Martin Hanford
* Tais Teng
The Future Fire has run occasional writers' conventions and competitions, including a flash fiction contest sponsored by the
MirrorMask
''MirrorMask'' is a 2005 dark fantasy film designed and directed by Dave McKean and written by Neil Gaiman from a story they developed together. The film stars Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, and Gina McKee.
The music used in the f ...
movie, and a satirical writing contest based on spam subject lines judged by Peter Tennant.
The Future Fire has published five anthologies (under the imprint Futurefire.net Publications): ''Outlaw Bodies'', co-edited by Lori Selke (), in 2012, a collection of stories on the theme of forbidden or constrained bodies, disability, feminism and trans issues; and ''We See a Different Frontier'', co-edited with Fabio Fernandes () in 2013, with preface by
Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard is a French-American speculative fiction writer.
Writing
de Bodard published her first short story in 2006. In 2007, she was a winner of Writers of the Future, and in 2009 was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best ...
and critical afterword by
Ekaterina Sedia
Ekaterina Sedia (born July 9, 1970) is a Russian fantasy writer. She immigrated to the United States and attended college in New Jersey to obtain her Ph.D. Her most famous work is ''The Alchemy of Stone'', a steampunk novel that examines sexism a ...
, which raised over $4,500 in crowdfunding via Peerbackers; A third anthology, ''Accessing the Future'', co-edited by Kathryn Allan, raised over $8,000 via IndieGogo, and received a starred review from
Publishers Weekly
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; ''TFF-X'' (co-edited by Djibril al-Ayad, Cécile Matthey and Valeria Vitale) and ''Fae Visions of the Mediterranean'' (co-edited by Valeria Vitale) appeared in late 2015 and early 2016 respectively. A mixed anthology of fiction and essays related to classical monsters, ''Making Monsters'' co-edited by Emma Bridges, was jointly released with the
Institute of Classical Studies
The Institute of Classical Studies is a research institution associated with the University of London and a member of the School of Advanced Study. The institute is a national and international research institute in the languages, literature, his ...
in 2018.http://press.futurefire.net/p/making-monsters.html ; call for submissions at https://ics.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/cfs-making-monsters-anthology