We’re having one heck of a ride here at the Shoreline of Infinity. In 2018 we:
BFS Award bookending a pile of Shoreline of Infinitiespublished four issues of Shoreline of Infinity, including an all women issue (No. 11) and a special Issue in conjunction with the Edinburgh International Science Festival
and at the end of the year Russell Jones and I enjoyed an interview with Janice Forsyth on Radio Scotland. (listen from 1hr 48mins)
And into the New Year, we’ve had success in the BSFA Awards longlist, with Aliette de Bodard (short story), Ruth EJ Booth (non-fiction) and Siobhan McDonald (cover artists), all getting mentions.
For a small team of volunteers working in our ‘spare’ time, that’s one heck of an output, and one we’ve enjoyed immensely.
And many, many thanks to everyone who supported, encouraged, retweeted, shouted out, read, watched, joined us, listened, advised, edited, criticised or just nodded encouragingly.
Onwards, forwards and upwards into 2019
And for 2019 we’re looking forward to publishing 4 more magazines, a flash fiction anthology, a special issue of the magazine called Selected Stories, looking back at Issues 1 – 10 and we’re also publishing a book on genre pub signs, Watch the Signs! Watch the Signs! We’ve also just announced a joint story competition with Cymera – Scotland’s first science fiction, fantasy and horror writing festival.
Event Horizons will be continuing apace on the 2nd Thursday of every month, with a special one with the Edinburgh Science Festival, and Cymera is allowing us to take over the Saturday night with a Event Horizon.
There are a number of other projects we’re working on which we are desperate to get out there, but aren’t quite ready yet – keep your eyes peeled, signed up to our mailing list and visit the site. Best of all, pick up up a Shoreline of Infinity entity.
I’d better crack on then!
—Noel Chidwick Editor-in-chief Shoreline of Infinity
What do you think?
We’re also using this time to think about what we are doing: what could we do better, what should we change? And we’d like to hear from you: our readers and audience; our writers, artists and other contributors; friends and critics. How are we doing so far?
Please let us know: we’ve set up a simple form to find out what you think about what we are doing, and what you would like to see. If you come to an Event Horizon, or read Shoreline of Infinity Magazine, or even don’t do either we’d like to hear your thoughts.
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Stories: Aliette de Bodard – A Slow Unfurling of Truth Emily Bowles – Write ME Karen Heuler – Heading for the Border Lith Amenti – Sacrifice For A Broken Sky Anna Ibbotson – Do No Harm Katy Lennon – #NoBadVibes Sim Bajwa – HR Confidential Jen Downes – Pearls That Were His Eyes Articles
SJ McGeachy on Frankenstein: The Nuts and Bolts of Genre Mash-Up Jonatha Kottler – Confessions of a Science Fiction She-nerd Interview: Lisanne Norman
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Ruth EJ Booth regular column – Noise and Sparks: Beyond the Mountains
Caroline Grebbell – Slow Unfurling of Truth M Luke McDonell – Pearls that were his Eyes Jackie Duckworth – Write ME Carol Wellart – Sacrifice for a Broken Sky and Heading for the Border Jessica Good – Do No Harm Becca McCall – #nobadvibes Grace Wilson – HR
Can SciFi Save Us? – Jane Yolen A Cure for Homesickness – Anne Charnock Winter in the Vivarium – Tim Major Charlie, A Projecting Prestidigitator – Megan Neumann Charlie’s Ant – Adrian Tchaikovsky Pigeon – Guy Stewart Candlemaker Row – Jane Alexander Now a ragged breeze – Jane Yolen The Sky is Alive – Michael F Russell Mémé – Juliana Rew The Morlock’s Arms – Ken MacLeod South – Marge Simon Monoliths – Paul McAuley Goodnight New York, New York – Victoria Zelvin A Distant Honk – Holly Schofield The Day it All Ended – Charlie Jane Anders Last of the Guerilla Gardeners – David L Clements The Last Days of the Lotus Eaters – Leigh Harlen We Have Magnetic Trees – Ian Hunter “Working the High Steel” – Jennifer R Povey Message in a Bottle – Davyne DeSye Starscape – J.S. Watts The Rest is Speculation – Eric Brown
Ada Palmer – Interview Stories Robert Gordon _ Aeaea Helen Jackson _ Do Not Pass GO Anton Rose _ Jammers J S Richardson _ Paradise Bird W G White _ Sand and Rust Elva Hills _ Sleeping Fire Duncan Lunan _ The Square Fella
SF Poetry: Caroline Hardaker, Ken Poyner, Elizabeth Dulemba
Chris Kelso _ SF Caledonia Crossing the Starfield Mark Toner _ The Beachcomber Presents and Ruth EJ Booth _ Noise and Sparks: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Genre?
Esme Carpenter – Harry’s Shiver Premee Mohamed – The Time Between Time Laura Young – Daughter Bo Balder – Splitting Up Caroline Grebbell – Goodnight Rosemarinus Tim Major – Cast In the Same Mould Rachel Armstrong – Origamy (extracts) Preston Grassmann – The Silk Tower of Beijing
Poetry: Tris Crest. Charlotte Ozment, Nate Maxson
New for Shoreline of Infinity 13 – Six Word Science Fiction Stories Gregg Chamberlain, Dane Divine, Michael Stroh
Art competition: we have a winner – Jimmy McGregor The Beachcomber Presents: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Mark Toner, Stephen Pickering & Tsu Beel SF Caledonia: Chris Kelso on Preston Grassmann Plus an interview with Rachel Armstrong on her amazing debut novel Origamy
BFS Award bookending a pile of Shoreline of Infinities