Fantasy mag has always been in the vanguard when it comes to publishing novel and intriguing forays into witching worlds , and now it ’s gotten a reboot from incoming editor John Joseph Adams . The cartridge just relaunched this workweek with much fanfare , and it will be serving up new , free tale online every workweek to come . Here ’s what ’s in storage .
This week ’s oblation let in an unbelievable story called“The Sandal Bride”by Genevieve Valentine , as well as a nonfiction essay onreal - life people who took the Cuban sandwich ’s journey , from former io9 staff member Graeme McMillan . Plus , there ’s gorgeous art ( depict here ) byScott Grimando .
We speak to bestselling anthologist Adams ( who also co - create the io9 podcast ) , to call for him a few head about the magazine .
io9 : Where you see forward-looking fantasy going ? Is it specialise into paranormal romance , urban fantasy , and epic illusion ? Or are all of those subgenres still part of the same introductory animal ?
JJA : I think modernistic phantasy is a rich and vibrant playground , the same as it ’s ever been , but it might be a snatch less cohesive and more spread out subgenre - wise than we ’ve seen in the past times . With the influx of paranormals and urban fantasy now overlook much of the fancy class in the bookshop , it may seem like that character of fiction is taking over . But I think that there ’s still raft of elbow room for that , and epic fantasy , and weird and literary contemporary fantasy and all of the unmanageable to categorise material that is unquestionably fantasy but is backbreaking to say what else it is . It ’s all still FANTASY , even if one may not wear much resemblance to the other .
Related to that , how do you plan to juggle all the dissimilar fantasy subgenres at Fantasy ? Any in particular that you favour , or that you think do n’t jibe into the magazine ?
There will belike be some of everything in Fantasy Magazine , though there is improbable to be much larger-than-life fantasy , since it ’s very hard to distinguish an epic floor in 7500 words or less ( though I ’m happy to be turn out wrong ) . Otherwise , I do n’t like to say no to any particular subgenre as a whole , because I do n’t want to miss out on the best damn ten story ever because I said in an consultation somewhere that I did n’t require stories about X.
So far , to just name a few , the stories I ’ve pick out include : a fairy tale repeat , a weird western , a world vs. god tale , a steampunk vs. necromancy narrative , a riff on choose your own adventure stories , an urban fancy confrontation with the daemon , and a story about a webapp that turns people into zombi . So I call back there will be a pretty broad variety , and I trust to keep mixing it up like that from month to month , for keep thing overbold and interesting .
Check out Fantasy magazineevery week , orbuy each egress for $ 3to get all your story in a nicely - formatted PDF .
FantasyJohn Joseph Adams
Daily Newsletter
Get the in force tech , science , and cultivation news in your inbox daily .
News from the futurity , delivered to your present .
You May Also Like
