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1. Magazines

Aboriginal SF
PO Box 2449, Wobum MA 01888-0849, USA.
Editor: Charles Ryan.
Required: Short science Fiction (5000 words). Original art. Now being folded into Absolute Magnitude, below.
Folding Green: $180 per story, $100 for Art.
Response promised: 3 months.

Absolute Magnitude (DNA Publications)
PO Box 2988, Radford VA 24143, USA.
Editor: Warren Lapine.
Required: Short science Fiction (5000 words). Adventure and space opera themes are what these guys are into.
Folding Green: 1 cent per word.
Response promised: 1 month.

Amazing Stories
PO Box 707, Renton WA 98057, USA.
Editor: Kim Mohan
Required:Short science Fiction (8000 words). Helps to be famous for these guys to publish you. Hmm, not that useful towards the author just starting out.
Folding Green: 6 cents per word.
Response promised: 3 months.

Analog
475 Park Avenue South, 11th floor, New York NY 10016, USA.
Editor: Stanley Schmidt
Required: Short science Fiction (7000 words). They like hard - read boringly heavy on the science - fiction.
Folding Green: 6 cents per word.
Response promised: 1 month.

Artemis
1380 East 17th Street #201, Brooklyn NY 11230-6011, USA.
Editor: lan Randal-Strock.
Required: Short science Fiction (15,000 words). They Like hard - near-future astronaut-style - fiction.
Folding Green: 3 cents per word.
Response promised: 1 month.

Asimov's
475 Park Avenue South, 11th fl, New York NY 10016, USA.
Editor: Gardner Dozois.
Required: Short science Fiction and a little bit of fantasy (20,000 words). They Like hard - near future astronaut-style - fiction.
Folding Green: 5 cents per word.
Response promised: 2 months.

Aurealis
PO Box 2164, Mount Waverley, Victoria 3149, Australia.
Editor: Stephen Higgins.
Required: Short science Fiction, horror and fantasy (7,000 words). This lot only publish native Ozzie writers on the basis nobody in the UK or USA ever publishes Australians!
Folding Green: 2 Australian cents per word.
Response promised: 5 months.

Dragon Magazine
PO Box 707, Renton WA 98057-0707, USA.
Editor: Dave Gross.
Required: Role-playing game articles and a single piece of fantasy fiction per issue (5,000 words).
Folding Green: 5 cents per word.
Response promised: 3 months.

Dreams Of Decadence
DNA Publications, PO Box 2988, Radford VA 24143, USA.
Editor: Angela Kessler.
Required: Gothic vampire-laden fantasy fiction is the main staple in this publication's monotonous diet (5,000 words).
Folding Green: 2 cents per word.
Response promised: 1 month.

Eternal Twilight
PO Box 337, Rodeo CA 94572-0337, USA.
Editor: Alfred Abrao.
Required: Horror and dark fantasy magazine (5,000 words).
Folding Green: 1 cent per word.
Response promised: 3 months.

Femme Fatales
5023 Frankford Avenue, Baltimore MD 21206.
Editor: Bill George.
Required: Articles and interviews based around female actresses and the films and TV series they appear in.
Folding Green: 7 cents per word.
Response promised: 3 months.

Inferno
The Black Library, Games Workshop, Willow Rd, Nottingham NG7 2WS, UK .
Editor: Marc Gascoigne.
Required: Dark and violent short stories set in shared game worlds of Warhammer (fantasy) and Warhammer 40,000 (sf). Bi-monthly.
Folding Green: 8 cents per word.
Response promised: 2 months.

Interzone
217 Preston Drove, Brighton, BNI 6FL, UK.
Editor: David Pringle.
Required: Science fiction and fantasy (3,000 words). They prefer arty and literary fiction because they have a large annual Arts Council grant to justify.
Folding Green: 1 pence per word.
Response promised: 4 months.

Locus
Editor: Charles N. Brown.
Required: Non-fiction magazine that acts as a trade press for fans and book-sellers + publishers. They have sections for book reviews, magazine reviews, interviews and conference reports.
Folding Green: 2 cents per word.
Response promised: 2 months.

Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Gordon Van Gelder, Fantasy & Science Fiction, P.O. Box 3447, Hoboken, NJ 07030.
Editor: Gordon Van Gelder.
Required: Science fiction and fantasy (8,000 words). Prefers fantasy over SF normally (despite the magazine's title).
Folding Green: 5 cents per word.
Response promised: 2 months.

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
PO Box 249, Berkeley CA 94701, USA.
Editor: Marion Bradley.
Required: Fussy little magazine that once set back a story to us with a sneering one-liner and lots of spelling corrections. Ever since, the best use we've found for this magazine is wiping our big wobbly arse after a curry. Think the mag is now defunct, as their web site seems to be acting as a holding site for the trust that administers MZ's estate (she's dead, you know).
Folding Green: 3 cents per word.
Response promised: 6 months.

On Spec
PO Box 4727, Edmonton AB T6E, Canada.
Editor: Susan MacGregor.
Required: Short science Fiction, fantasy and horror (6,000 words). They tend to give most of their breaks to Canadians on the basis that most US magazines operate their own little Most Favoured Nation scheme.
Folding Green: 3 Canadian cents per word.
Response promised: 3 months.

Pirate Writings (Tales of Fantasy & SF)
PO Box 329, Brightwaters NY 11718-0329, USA.
Editor: Edward McFadden.
Required: Short science Fiction, fantasy and horror (4,000 words).
Folding Green: 1 cent per word.
Response promised: 2 months.

Science Fiction Chronicle
PO Box 022730, Brooklyn NY 11202-0056, USA.
Editor: Andrew Porter
Required: The poor man's Locus, and their only serious competitor. A good magazine, but struggles with keeping their frequency. Think they're currently a quarterly. No fiction, lots of trade book news - author signings, publisher moves. A little musty, but one for the serious fan base.
Folding Green: 3 cents per word. Cover art $100.
Response promised: 2 months.

Science Fiction Crowsnest
74 Gloucester Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6-6EA, UK.
Editor: Geoff Willmetts
Required: Europe's most popular online science fiction and fantasy magazine - it has a thriving short fiction market and a track record of breaking exciting new talent. Action and adventure oriented fiction is their favoured market.
Response promised: 2 months.

Scifi.com
48 Eighth Avenue, PMB 405, New York, NY 10014, USA.
Editor: Ellen Datlow.
Required: Web site that does fiction. Their submission guidelines are so limiting that we suggest you roll up your mss, stick it in bottle, and throw it in a bottle off Brighton Pier and hope it gets published.
Folding Green: 20 cents per word.
Response promised: 2 months.

SFX
Future Publishing, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BA I 2BW, UK.
Editor: Dave Golder
Required: Media oriented SF and fantasy magazine. Lots of film and tv reviews, interviews. Some book reviews - not to mention games, anime etc. Very good production standard and layout. No fiction.
Folding Green: £140 per article.
Response promised: 2 months.

Shivers
9 Blades Court, Deodar Road, London SW15 2NU, UK.
Editor: David Miller
Required: Another media oriented horror magazine. Lots of film and TV reviews, interviews. Love articles on X-Files, Chuckie, Jason etc. No fiction.
Folding Green: 2 pence per word.
Response promised: 2 months.

Space & Time
138 West 70th St #4B, New York NY 10023-4468, USA.
Editor: Gordon Linzner
Required: Short SF, fantasy and horror fiction (10,000 words). Fairly small-looking magazine.
Folding Green: 1 cent per word.
Response promised: 3 months.

Starburst
9 Blades Court, Deodar Road, London SW15 2NU, UK.
Editor: David Richardson
Required: Another media oriented SF magazine. Lots of film and TV reviews, interviews. Love articles on Red Dwarf, Voyager, DS9 etc. No fiction.
Folding Green: 2 pence per word.
Response promised: 2 months.

Talebones
5203 Quincy Ave. SE, Aubum WA 98092, USA.
Editor: Patrick Swenson.
Required: SF and fantasy small press magazine (5,000 words).
Folding Green: 1 cent per word.
Response promised: 1 month.

Weird Tales
123 Crooked Lane, King of Prussia PA 19406-2570, USA.
Editor: Darrell Schweitzer.
Required: Dark fantasy and horror (8,000 words). Has some 'name' writers like Ramsey Campbell.
Folding Green: 3 cents per word.
Response promised: 2 months.

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2. Book Publishers

Ace Books (Penguin Putnam)
375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014, USA.
Editor: Susan Allison.
Required: SF and fantasy. Send initial three chapters and an outline.
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 3 months

Arrow Books (Random Century).
20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SWIV-2SA, UK.
Editor: Andy McKillop.
Required: Basically this lot have shut down their SF and fantasy operation. They used to run Legend imprint until they sold it off. You'll still find them listed and they claim to be open to new authors for SF/F - but only if they're not perceived as such. Ho hum.
Folding Green: Poor.
Response promised: 2 months.

Atheneum Books
1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, USA.
Editor: Marcia Marshall.
Required: School children's imprint - from primary school to young high school. Do a lot of fantasy and SF. Send a query letter first. No unsolicited manuscripts.
Folding Green: Poor.
Response promised: 2 months

Avon/Eos Books
10 East 53rd Street, New York NY 10020, USA.
Editor: Jennifer Brehl.
Required: Fantasy and SF novel-length books from one of the major US publishers. They tend to be very US centric though. Send a query letter first. No unsolicited manuscripts.
Folding Green: Good.
Response promised: 2 months.

Baen Books (Simon and Schuster)
PO Box 1403, Riverdale NY10471, USA.
Editor: Jim Baen.
Required: Fantasy and SF novel-length fiction. Send a query letter first. No unsolicited manuscripts.
Folding Green: Good.
Response promised: 5 months.

Bantam Spectra
1540 Broadway, New York NY 10036, USA.
Editor: Anne Lesley Groell.
Required: Fantasy and SF novel-length fiction. Send a query letter first. No unsolicited manuscripts.
Folding Green: Good.
Response promised: 2 months.

Black Library
Games Workshop, Willow Rd, Nottingham NG7 2WS, UK.
Editor: Marc Gascoigne.
Required: SF and fantasy, set in shared game worlds of Warhammer (fantasy) and Warhammer 40,000 (sf).
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 2 months.

Boxtree (Macmillan)
25 Eccleston Place, London SWIV-9NE, UK.
Editor: Clare Hulton.
Required: Do lots of commercial film and TV tie-ins. Trek, X-Files etc. Almost entirely non-fiction.
Folding Green: Poor.
Response promised: 5 months.

Constable & Robinson Publishing
3 The Lanchesters, 162 Fulham Palace Road, London W6-9ER, UK.
Editor: Krystyna Green.
Required: Best known for The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF and The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror. They have a few other titles in the genre, but are very fussy and normally bounce most new author's fantasy/sf manuscripts.
Folding Green: Poor.
Response promised: 3 months.

Collins & Brown Publishing
London House, Great Eastern Wharf, Parkgate Road, London SW11-4NQ, UK.
Editor: Sonia Pugh.
Required: Do a lot of art books under the Paper Tiger imprint. Not a lot else. Yawn.
Folding Green: Poor.
Response promised: 3 months.

Circlet Press
1770 Mass. Avenue #278, Cambridge MA 02140, USA.
Editor: Janice Annis.
Required: Erotic SF, fantasy and horror stories (20,000 words). Do a lot of gay and lesbian titles.
Folding Green: Poor.
Response promised: 4 months.

Crowsnest Books
74 Gloucester Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6-6EA, UK.
Editor: Geoff Willmetts
Required: Large science fiction and fantasy publisher that has a major internet presence with strong sales through the like of Barnes and Noble.com, Powells and the other web book-stores. Send 3 sample chapters and a detailed outline.
Folding Green: 1 cent per word.
Response promised: 2 months.

DAW Books (Penguin Putnam)
375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014-3658, USA.
Editor: Peter Stampfel.
Required: Fantasy and SF fiction. No unsolicited manuscripts.
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 3 months.

Del Rey Books (Ballantine Books/Random House)
Del Rey Books, 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 USA.
Editor: Shelly Shapiro (Editorial Director); Steve Saffel (Senior Editor); Chris Schluep (Assistant Editor); Kathleen O'Shea (Editorial Assistant).
Required: Fantasy and SF fiction. No unsolicited manuscripts. Normal American TV-dinner fiction as far as we can tell.
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 3 months.

Gollancz/Millennium (Orion)
Orion House, 5 Upper St. Martin's Lane, WC2H-9EA, UK.
Editor: Simon Spanton, Jo Fletcher
Required: Fantasy and SF novel-length fiction. Send an outline and a couple of sample chapters.
Folding Green: Good.
Response promised: 3 months.

Harpercollins (Voyager)
77-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB, UK.
Editor: Jane Johnson.
Required: Fantasy and SF novel-length fiction from their Voyager imprint. Send an outline and a couple of sample chapters. In the USA, they publish under the imprints HarperTorch and Eos Books.
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 2 months.

Hodder Headline Book Publishing
338 Euston Road, London NWI-3BH, UK.
Editor: Doug Young.
Required: Fantasy and horror novel-length fiction. Send an outline and a couple of sample chapters.
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 1 month.

Hodder & Stoughton
Editor: Carolyn Caughey.
Required: SF, fantasy and horror novel-length fiction. Send a query letter and outline. Not a lot of output and they bounce most authors with a cursory form letter. Many of their genre titles come out under the New English Library/Sceptre imprints. Think these guys are now merged into Hodder Headline, above.
Folding Green: Good.
Response promised: 1 month.

Little Brown & Company (Orbit, Legend)
Brettenham House, Lancaster Place, London WC2E 7EN, UK.
Editor: Tim Holman.
Required: SF and fantasy novel-length fiction. Send outline and first three chapters.
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 3 months.

Pan Macmillan
25 Eccleston Place, London SWIW 9NE, UK.
Editor: Peter Lavery.
Required: Have a decent back-list but haven't done much new stuff for yonks. Suspect they wouldn't recognise a good new SF author if he/she ran their Managing Director over with a BattleStar.
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 2 months.

Roc Books (Penguin Putnam)
375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014, USA.
Editor: Laura Anne Gilman.
Required: SF and fantasy. But you need an agent before you can pass into these dude's hallowed halls. Un-agented writers can send a query letter which'll elicit a rejection letter more times than not.
Folding Green: Good.
Response promised: 4 months.

Penguin (UK)
27 Wrights Lane, London W8 STZ, UK.
Editor: Donald Moore.
Required: Only those with agents need bother to apply. Even then they probably won't publish you. Give up now. See also Penguin Putnam inc and its US imprints.
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 1 month.

Pumpkin Books
PO Box 297, Nottingham, NG2 4GW, UK.
Editor: David Marshall.
Required: Small press publisher of dark fantasy and horror.
Folding Green: Poor.
Response promised: 2 months.

Saint Martin's Press
175 Fifth Ave, New York NY 10010-7848, USA.
Editor: Gordon Van Gelder.
Required: Smallish output in the fantasy and SF genre these days, tending towards the luvvy darling end of the market. Send a query letter first, no manuscripts.
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 3 months.

Simon & Schuster
Africa House, 64-78 Kingsway, London WC2B-6AH, UK.
Editor: John Jarrold.
Required: SF and fantasy novel-length fiction. Send outline and first three chapters. Earthlight is their genre imprint.
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 2 months.

Titan Publishing Group
144 Southwark Street, London SE1-0UP, UK.
Editor: David Barraclough.
Required: Do lots of film and TV media tie-ins, as well as reprints of comic book material from 2000AD and Marvel. No fiction.
Folding Green: Poor.
Response promised: 3 months.

Tor Books (Saint Martins Press)
175 Fifth Ave, New York NY 10010, USA.
Required: SF and fantasy novel-length fiction. No manuscripts, just an outline and three sample chapters. This bunch pump out a large output.
Folding Green: Good.
Response promised: 3 months.

Transworld
61-63 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, London W5-5SA, UK.
Editor: Simon Taylor.
Required: Never has a company with so many imprints published so few new authors. They normally only pay attention if you've got an agent (and it helps if you're famous too). Imprints include Anchor, Bantam, Black Swan, Corgi and Doubleday.
Folding Green: Good.
Response promised: 6 months.

Warner Aspect
1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York NY 10020, USA.
Editor: Betsy Mitchell
Required: SF and fantasy novel-length fiction. You need to have an agent before their blue suits will deign to read your work. SF is pumped out under their Aspect imprint.
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 3 months.

Wizards of the Coast
PO Box 707, Renton WA 98057-0707, USA.
Editor: Peter Archer.
Required: Sharecropped fantasy novels set in their role playing game Advanced Dungeons and Dragons world.
Folding Green: Average.
Response promised: 4 months.

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