Great to see you working on this new structure/platform- bringing the best together of the dying magazine market and injecting it into the growing opportunities of collaborative self publishing. If you ever want to do a biological science fiction anthology keep me in mind- I would love to join the party.
Thanks bro. I have a big vision for this (halfplanet is an industry disguised as a small press) and I've had some nonbelievers, but I think I've now got spiky enough to have found a small tribe of likeminded ambitious people for it!
Adding you to a biological sci-fi anthology... interesting. I can think of one other person who I might need to ask.
Could you define biological sci-fi for me? I want to know if my story Mycelial would fit the bill.
For me the best biological science fiction explores some aspect of that science (and there are plenty that have never been used in fiction, and more discovered every day) and makes it the centre of the story, rather than just a monster of the week to gun down at the finale. Defined this way it is a pretty rare subgenre. Plenty of books heavily feature weird biology (like Vandermeer) but it is mostly there for vibes. Adrian Tchaikovsky probably comes closest- you might even be able to tempt him to join or foreword the anthology since he seems very supportive of new/emerging writers. Seeing other writers approach to the idea of biology heavy sci fi would be amazing though.
Great to see you working on this new structure/platform- bringing the best together of the dying magazine market and injecting it into the growing opportunities of collaborative self publishing. If you ever want to do a biological science fiction anthology keep me in mind- I would love to join the party.
Thanks bro. I have a big vision for this (halfplanet is an industry disguised as a small press) and I've had some nonbelievers, but I think I've now got spiky enough to have found a small tribe of likeminded ambitious people for it!
Adding you to a biological sci-fi anthology... interesting. I can think of one other person who I might need to ask.
Could you define biological sci-fi for me? I want to know if my story Mycelial would fit the bill.
For me the best biological science fiction explores some aspect of that science (and there are plenty that have never been used in fiction, and more discovered every day) and makes it the centre of the story, rather than just a monster of the week to gun down at the finale. Defined this way it is a pretty rare subgenre. Plenty of books heavily feature weird biology (like Vandermeer) but it is mostly there for vibes. Adrian Tchaikovsky probably comes closest- you might even be able to tempt him to join or foreword the anthology since he seems very supportive of new/emerging writers. Seeing other writers approach to the idea of biology heavy sci fi would be amazing though.
That makes sense. In which case I was right not to class Mycelial as it, even though some readers might.
I'll think about it! I have some other anthologies whizzing around too
Sounds great.