Toward Ecosophy

Just fielded a couple of welcome emails from Founders House Publishing, the outfit that publishes my tentacle fiction and the collected Archdruid Report essays. First, I'm delighted to announce that Silence in the City, an anthology of original stories about the end of the modern world, which had a successful Kickstarter late last year (and was promoted here among other places.) It's got pieces by Alex Shvartsman, David B. Coe, Dean Wesley Smith, Gini Koch, Kevin McLaughlin, D.A. D'Amico, Annie Reed, Joshua Palmatier, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kirsten Cross, D.B. Keele, Shaun Kilgore, and me. I've gotten my copy, and it looks really good. Interested?  Check it out here. 

In other Founders House news, owner Shaun Kilgore has been encouraged by the success of recent Kickstarters and is trying to establish steady funding for MYTHIC magazine, his flagship science fiction and fantasy quarterly, via Patreon. He writes: 

So there you have it. Imaginative fiction isn't quite dead yet!

The kickstarter for MYTHIC Magazine, Founders House Publishing's magazine of original fantasy and science fiction, was successful enough -- three stretch goals hit! -- that publisher Shaun Kilgore is back again with another Kickstarter project that will be of serious interest to readers here. Here's the blurb: 

"Sudden disruptions in power and other major services sends a city into chaos. In the blink of an eye, the modern technological world fails. Is it a government plot? Experiment gone wrong? A foreign cyber attack? Alien invasion? A mystical incursion from beings beyond this dimension? Who knows? Now the noise and the bustle of the city has vanished and an eerie silence settles over the urban landscape. Within, there are stories of human violence, depravity, and desperation, but also heroism, selflessness, and sacrifice. SILENCE IN THE CITY is an anthology of speculative tales asking what happens when a city—and all of modern civilization—is plunged into darkness."SILENCE IN THE CITY will contain at least fifteen original short stories spanning the science fiction, fantasy, and even horror genres that will be written by popular and best-selling writers like Gini Koch (writing as A.E. Stanton), David B. Coe, Dean Wesley Smith, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Joshua Palmatier, Kevin J. McLaughlin, Alex Shvartsman, John Michael Greer, and many others." 

Yes, I've got a story in mind for this project, one that I've been mulling over for a while now. I think the whole project is going to be well worth reading. As for the Kickstarter, Shaun's got a stack of add-ons and stretch goals in place. Check out the details here -- while you've still got electricity...

Many of my readers, perhaps most, are aware that Founders House Publishing -- the firm that publishes most of my fiction, including The Weird of Hali -- also  publishes a magazine of fantasy and science fiction, MYTHIC. If you haven't yet encountered MYTHIC, and you like imaginative fiction that isn't just a rehash of the usual clichés, you should definitely have a look at it. Yes, I've had several stories published there, and there are more in the queue -- why do you ask?  ;-) 

Publisher Shaun Kilgore has just launched a subscription drive through Kickstarter. It's already a paying market for stories -- relatively unusual these days for a magazine that isn't backed by the corporate big boys -- but his goal is to build the subscriber base to the point that he can start paying professional rates for the stories he publishes.  This strikes me as a worthy goal, and I'd like to encourage my readers to consider subscribing, or adding to their subscription, via Kickstarter. Interested?  Check out the Kickstarter page here. 

I'm delighted to announce that Founders House Publishers has just launched its Kickstarter campaign for Vintage Worlds 2 and 3, two new volumes of original short stories about the Old Solar System -- that is to say, outer space as it should have been, with swordsmen dueling along the banks of the Grand Canal on Mars, strange creatures slithering through the steaming jungles of Venus, and all the other details of the greatest shared fictional cosmos ever created by the human imagination. Both volumes are edited by Zendexor, the amiable host of Solarsystemheritage.com, and me; both are chockfull of two- (or more-)fisted adventure tales set in the science fictional future we didn't get: Volume 2 includes the following stories: 


Interested? Intrigued? Ready to climb aboard the next rocket ship to Neptune?  Here's your boarding pass.