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I'm a book publisher and former science fiction magazine publisher with a deep love of science fiction. I've always loved the old vibrant SNES color scheme, which is what I went fo…

I see this pattern a lot -- folks start a publication, publish for a handful of years, and then shutter. I did it myself with Compelling Science Fiction magazine. This is why I set…

My reading is that OpenAI is paying lip service. Altman is basically saying "OF COURSE we don't want to spy on Americans or murderdrone randos, but OF COURSE the government would n…

nicely said. I've been thinking a lot about how the bottleneck in the limit is getting your intent into the machine. Over time as AI improves it'll get better and better at extract…

I love the slash for style menu, really nicely implemented!

And in 1925 they didn't even have the Internet

Really nice, reducing friction when note-taking is super valuable.

I was using my garage as a warehouse for the books, and it burned down, so I lost all the remaining copies of that first printing, unfortunately!

Many authors can do a short story per week, I would definitely get out of bed for $30k/week

That's really cool! Yes, it's always been amazing to me how many people will respond helpfully to a random cold email. And well-known authors are similar to other artists in the fa…

My favorite collection recently was "The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge". It spans his short fiction from 1965-2001. I've considered commissions many times, I go back and forth …

Yes, I plan on releasing one annually, based on the best concept-driven science fiction stories from the previous year. Any more than that and it would take too much time, but one …

Makes sense! The entire section under "original short stories" is how the website used to look back when it was a science fiction magazine.

Thanks for pointing that out, I need to remove that submissions page altogether, the magazine has been shut down for five years and you found your way to a vestigial part of the si…

A picture of the first page of the TOC is the only one I have immediately available: https://compellingsciencefiction.com/images/toc.jpg I'm sure an excel pro would find excel much…

First I just want to say that it's an honor that you took a look, I've read and enjoyed many of your articles in the past. This anthology is actually a "Year's Best" -- they're rep…

Happy to talk about it, the TL;DR is that this is a hobby where I as the editor don't expect to make back the money I spent creating the book, but the authors get paid a fixed amou…

Thanks for your support! I believe I understand where you're coming from, some of the stories have more novel concepts than others -- Twenty-Four Hours is hard to discuss without s…

This looks cool, I'll check it out!