Strange Horizons Fund Drive
Oct. 30th, 2012 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbSH is on the last week of their fund drive. You should go donate.
(I donated $1.50. I know, I just got paid, but the money just disappears. But every little helps!)
Why donate, sez you?
Me, for my part, I'm not a big short story reader. But there are a handful of shorts that've grabbed my throat and not let go, and SH has published three-quarters of them. Free weekly short fiction - over ten years of it archived online.
But I confess, I generally go SH-wards for the reviews. I probably shouldn't praise a department for which, over the last year-and-change, I've become a contributor - but with three reviews a week (except those very occasional weeks when they run a mere two), with each review being a fairly in-depth discussion of the work in question, and with the works in question ranging from debuts out of outré small presses to established authors with long histories behind them, and everything in between...
Even the longest reviews are usually worth skimming (so I have a short attention span), and the archives have eight years of discussion of the literature and film of "fantastika." The present reviews editor, Abigail Nussbaum, is powerful good at making this reviewer Write More Better. (For which I'm grateful. Things that editors do: make you improve.)
And, well. For everything else, I agree with Nina Allen's assessment.
Strange Horizons does interesting things, and also reviewing for them gives me pocket money. Support them as does good work, right?
(I donated $1.50. I know, I just got paid, but the money just disappears. But every little helps!)
Why donate, sez you?
Me, for my part, I'm not a big short story reader. But there are a handful of shorts that've grabbed my throat and not let go, and SH has published three-quarters of them. Free weekly short fiction - over ten years of it archived online.
But I confess, I generally go SH-wards for the reviews. I probably shouldn't praise a department for which, over the last year-and-change, I've become a contributor - but with three reviews a week (except those very occasional weeks when they run a mere two), with each review being a fairly in-depth discussion of the work in question, and with the works in question ranging from debuts out of outré small presses to established authors with long histories behind them, and everything in between...
Even the longest reviews are usually worth skimming (so I have a short attention span), and the archives have eight years of discussion of the literature and film of "fantastika." The present reviews editor, Abigail Nussbaum, is powerful good at making this reviewer Write More Better. (For which I'm grateful. Things that editors do: make you improve.)
And, well. For everything else, I agree with Nina Allen's assessment.
Strange Horizons does interesting things, and also reviewing for them gives me pocket money. Support them as does good work, right?
