{"id":5502,"date":"2014-07-26T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T21:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5502"},"modified":"2014-07-26T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T21:57:57","slug":"hugo-awards-best-semiprozine-and-best-fanzine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/07\/26\/hugo-awards-best-semiprozine-and-best-fanzine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Awards: Best semiprozine and Best fanzine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThe next two Hugo Awards<\/a> categories are Best semiprozine and Best fanzine. The differences between these two categories are slight, especially in the day of the internet zine; of the titles nominated iirc only Interzone<\/cite> was originally a paper zine. The main difference is whether or not your zine contributes to your income and either has to be paid for to read or pay its contributors, or both.\n<\/p>\n

\nBecause I don’t follow magazine science fiction and because there has been such an explosion of them in the past couple of years, I find it difficult to judge the candidates here. What I’ve decided upon was to look at a) which writers they publish, b) what sort of stories and non-fiction, c) diversity and d) just general online presence. To be honest, any of these magazines would be a worthy winner.\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Apex Magazine<\/a> edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Jason Sizemore, and Michael Damian Thomas
    \nThis is the most diversive of the candidates, looks great and has published some great stories, including Hugo candidate “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky.\n<\/li>\n
  2. Lightspeed Magazine<\/a> edited by John Joseph Adams, Rich Horton, and Stefan Rudnicki
    \nLighspeed publishes both science fiction and fantasy, new and reprint, with some very well known authors contributing.\n<\/li>\n
  3. Strange Horizons<\/a> edited by Niall Harrison, Brit Mandelo, An Owomoyela, Julia Rios, Sonya Taaffe, Abigail Nussbaum, Rebecca Cross, Anaea Lay, and Shane Gavin
    \nStrange Horizons is the one semiprozine I do read regularly, mostly for their reviews as well as their features about diversity in science fiction, like the     annual SF count<\/a>. I’ve always seen it as more a blog than a magazine though; they don’t do issues as such.\n<\/li>\n
  4. Beneath Ceaseless Skies<\/a> edited by Scott H. Andrews
    \nAccording to their mission statement, “Beneath Ceaseless Skies will feature exciting stories set in awe-inspiring places that are told with all the skill and impact of modern literary-influenced fantasy.” Not entirely my cup of tea, or at least not as a biweekly magazine, but I like that everything they’ve published seems to be made available with the appropriate Creative Commons license. The magazine itself is basic: you got a cover, two stories, that’s it.\n<\/li>\n
  5. Interzone<\/a> edited by Andy Cox

    \nI’m sorry to say that this is currently the most boring of the candidates, as it used to be a hugely influential magazine back in the nineties and eighties.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \nOnto the fanzine nominations. I won’t be considering Elitist Book Reviews, for reasons described in my first post<\/a>, leaving me with a strong field to consider. Because most of the nominees are blogs rather than paper fanzines, I know Pornokitsch, The Book Smuggles and A Dribble of Ink already even when I don’t read them regularly. Journey Planet I didn’t know and turned out to actually be an oldfashioned fanzine and just as good as the other candidates. Again, any of these would make a worthy winner.\n<\/p>\n

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    1. A Dribble of Ink<\/a> edited by Aidan Moher
      \nWorth the nomination just for having published       We Have Always Fought<\/a>, but this is one of the best sf orientated blogs I know anyway.\n<\/li>\n
    2. Journey Planet<\/a> edited by James Bacon, Christopher J. Garcia, Lynda E. Rucker, Pete Young, Colin Harris, and Helen J. Montgomery
      \nAn old skool paper zine only available in PDF online, but the articles published make up for that annoyance. They don’t seem to have published anything since last December though.\n<\/li>\n
    3. Pornokitsch<\/a> edited by Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin
      \nPornokitsch looks at geek culture in the broadest sense, is a well written chatty blog.\n<\/li>\n
    4. The Book Smugglers<\/a> edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James
      \nReview orientated, they do what they do well but it’s not a blog I regularly read or want to read.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The next two Hugo Awards categories are Best semiprozine and Best fanzine. The differences between these two categories are slight, especially in the day of the internet zine; of the titles nominated iirc only Interzone was originally a paper zine. The main difference is whether or not your zine contributes to your income and either […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1818,22],"tags":[824],"class_list":["post-5502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom-2","category-science-fiction","tag-hugo-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5505,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions\/5505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}