Show HN: The first issue of Compelling Science Fiction

Post by personjerry » Mon, Apr 11, 2016, 4:52 PM UTC

mojoe wrote: post #9

personjerry wrote: post #5

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I asked this on the original thread too but never got an answer, and I ask it again because I'm not familiar with how publishing works: If I submit a series of short stories, would I still retain the right to collect them into a book and have it published elsewhere, like Asimov did with Foundation?

I'm sorry I missed your question the last time around. Yes, you retain the copyright, I just buy 'first world electronic print rights.' This means that I'm buying exclusive rights to publish electronically for a period of time (in this case 6 months) and after that I have non-exclusive publishing rights (so you can sell or publish reprints any time after 6 months). After 3 years you have the option of terminating my…

Post by joeax » Mon, Apr 11, 2016, 5:17 PM UTC

mojoe wrote: post #2

Two months ago I posted about a new online science fiction magazine I was creating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11151062 I'm happy to report that the first issue is now live! I'm looking forward to hearing your feedback. I will continue to refine the magazine as time goes on, but I believe we have a great collection of stories for you, which is what we set out to do.

Post by _greim_ » Mon, Apr 11, 2016, 5:24 PM UTC

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Post by mojoe » Mon, Apr 11, 2016, 7:01 PM UTC

_greim_ wrote: post #65

Thanks! I'll be bookmarking this and coming back periodically. FWIW, I used chrome dev tools to add some page styles, in order to make the stories easier for me to read. body { font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; line-height: 2; background-color: #F8F9E4; } p { margin: .5em 0; text-indent: 1em; }

Post by paulvs » Tue, Apr 12, 2016, 1:22 AM UTC

paulvs wrote: post #41

Just read Gaia's Children (~35min) - a great piece. I actually listened to it in the car on the way to work using iOS's text-to-speech, which was very good quality.