Amazing Stories, the
world's first science fiction magazine, opens for Beta Testing of Phase 1 on
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013.
Fifty+ Writers Sign On to
provide genre-related content!
Experimenter Publishing Company
Hillsboro, NH
December 20, 2012
The Experimenter Publishing Company is pleased to announce
the reintroduction of the world's most
recognizable science fiction magazine – AMAZING STORIES!
Set to relaunch with a Beta Test of its new Social Magazine Platform, Amazing
Stories will feature content from 50+ bloggers, covering an enormous array of
subjects of interest to genre fans.
“We've got authors and agents, bloggers and editors, pod
casters and broadcasters; we've got gamers and game designers; artists and art
collectors; pulpsters and indie authors; we've got Hugo winners, John W.
Campbell Memorial Award winners, John W. Campbell Best New Writer winners,
Nebula and Hugo Award winners and nominees and winners and nominees of many
other awards; people who review films,
people who make films; we've got fanboys and fangirls; we've got former editors
of Amazing Stories, writers who've become synonymous with the field and writers
who are just getting started; comic artists, book reviewers; traditionally
published authors, self-pubbed authors and authors who've done it all. The response to my request for participation
was phenomenal – it couldn't be more perfect if I had set out with a list of
must-haves!” said Steve Davidson, publisher.
Amazing Stories' Social Magazine platform is designed to
create an interactive environment that will be familiar to fans with blog
content designed to encourage discussion
and take things beyond the usual user-generated content model for social
networks.
The Amazing Stories Blog Team will cover (for now – more
coming!) fourteen popular topics – Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, (lit),
Film, Television, Gaming, Comics and Graphic Works, the Visual Arts, the Pulps, Audio Works, Anime, the Business of Publishing, Science
and Fandom itself.
At this year's Worldcon (Chicon 7 the 70HYPERLINK "http://chicon.org/" thHYPERLINK
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Chicago), Toastmaster John Scalzi talked about what it was to be a fan and
concluded by saying
“We are diverse -
and we are all in this together.”
We are diverse – and we are all in this together, a
sentiment that captures the very heart and soul of what it means to be a
fan. Amazing Stories aims to be a
vehicle through which the diversity of fandom can come together.
Amazing Stories' relaunch will take place in two
phases. Those interested in
participating in the Beta Test of Phase 1 should contact the publisher at steve.davidson33@comcast.net. Participants
will receive full access to the site with Member status and will receive
on-site benefits as the project moves forward.
Phase 2 will introduce additional interactivity and
user-customization to the site.
Following the completion and testing of Phase 2, the magazine, featuring
both new and reprint fiction, essays, photo galleries, reviews and more will
begin publication. Readers who are
interested in what the magazine will look like can read two Relaunch Prelaunch
issues on line, or download them from the Amazing Stories store. (Additional Amazing Stories themed product is
also available here.)
Experimenter Publishing is pleased to introduce the Amazing Stories Blog Team:
Cenobyte, Mike
Brotherton, Ricky L. Brown, Michael A. Burstein,
Catherine Coker, Johne
Cook, Paul Cook, Gary Dalkin, Jane Frank,
Jim Freund, Adam Gaffen,
Chris Garcia, Chris Gerwel, Tommy Hancock, Liz Henderson, Samantha
Henry, M. D. Jackson, Monique Jacob, Geoffrey James, J. J.
Jones, Peggy Kolm, Justin Landon, Andrew Liptak, Melissa Lowery, Barry
Malzberg, C. E. Martin, Farrell J. McGovern, Steve Miller, Matt
Mitrovich, Aidan Moher, Kevin Murray, Ken Neth, Astrid Nielsch, D.
Nicklin-Dunbar, John Purcell, James Rogers, Diane Severson, Doug
Smith, Lesley Smith, Bill Spangler, Duane Spurlock, Michael J. Sullivan, G.
W. Thomas, Erin Underwood, Stephan Van Velzen, Cynthia Ward, Michael
Webb, Keith West, John M. Whalen, Ann Wilkes,Karlo Yeager, Leah Zeldez
BACKGROUND:
Originally published in 1926 by the father of science
fiction, Hugo Gernsback, Amazing Stories helped to launch both the science
fiction genre and its most enduring feature, science fiction fandom. The magazine is well known for its Frank R.
Paul covers and for publishing the first stories by many iconic authors such as
Isaac Asimov, Jack Williamson and Ursula Le Guin. Published continuously from 1926 until 1995,
followed by two brief resurrections from 1998 till 2000 and again from 2004
thru 2005. In 2008 Hasbro, the then
current owner, allowed the trademarks to lapse and publisher Steve Davidson
applied for and eventually received them in 2011.
Additional history and background on Amazing Stories can be
found at the Science Fiction Encyclopedia and Wikipedia. A complete
gallery of all 609 previous issues with publication history is also
available.
The Experimenter Publishing Company was created in 2012 for
the purpose of returning Amazing Stories magazine to regular publication. The company
shares the name of the original magazine's publisher as homage. The trademarks for Amazing Stories were
acquired by Steve Davidson in 2011, the
previous owners having allowed the marks to lapse in 2008, at which time
application was made for a new incarnation of the same title.
CONTACT:
For more information regarding Amazing Stories, the Blog
Team and the Beta Test of the new site, please contact Steve Davidson via email
at steve.davidson33@comcast.net.
To contact one of the Blog Team:
Cenobyte http://www.cenobyte.ca
Mike Brotherton http://www.mikebrotherton.com
Ricky L Brown http://doctorfantastiques.com/author/rickbrown
Cait Coker http://www.aggiescifi.wordpress.com
Johne Cook https://twitter.com/theskypirate
Paul Cook http://www.paulcook-sci-fi.com
Gary Dalkin http://www.tothelastword.com
Jane Frank http://www.wow-art.com
Jim Freund http://www.hourwolf.com
Adam Gaffen http://www.thekildaran.blogspot.com
Chris Garcia http://efanzines.com/DrinkTank
Chris Gerwel http://elflands2ndcousin.com
Liz Henderson http://www.true-blood.net , http://www.onceuponafansite.com
, http://www.nicegirlstv.com
Samantha Henry http://www.scifidramaqueen.com
M. D. Jackson http://www.michaeldeanjackson.blogspot.com
Monique Jacob http://www.moniquejacob.com
J. Jay Jones
Peggy Kolm http://blog.sciencefictionbiology.com
Justin Landon http://www.staffersbookreview.com
Andrew Liptak http://www.andrewliptak.wordpress.com
Barry Malzberg
Farrell J. McGovern http://www.can-con.org
Matt Mitrovich http://alternatehistoryweeklyupdate.blogspot.com
Aidan Moher http://aidanmoher.com/blog
Ken Neth http://nethspace.blogspot.com
Astrid Nielsch http://webdesign.asni.net/
, http://www.asni.net , http://www.asni.net/newsletter.php
, http://music.asni.net/
, http://conceptart.asni.net/
D. Nicklin-Dunbar http://mouldysquid.wordpress.com/book-reviews
John Purcell http://efanzines.com/Prior/index.htm
James Rogers http://scienceismagic.com/
Diane Severson www.divadianes.blogspot.com
, http://www.starshipsofa.com/category/podcast/fact-articles/poetry-planet/
, http://www.sfpoetry.com
Doug Mmith http://www.smithwriter.com
Lesley Smith
Bill Spangler
Duane Spurlock http://pulprack.blogspot.com
, http://spurandlock.blogspot.com
, http://duanespurlock.blogspot.com
Michael J. Sullivan http://www.riyria.com
G. W. Thomas http://www.gwthomas.org
Erin Underwood http://www.underwords.com
Stephan Van Velzen http://www.rantingdragon.com
Michael Webb http://www.martianexpatriate.com/
John M Whalen http://johnmwhalen.wordpress.com
Ann Wilkes http://sciencefictionmusings.blogspot.com
Karlo Yeager
Leah Zeldes http://www.zeldes.com , http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com
, http://www.diningchicago.com/blog
A complete copy of this press release will appear on the
Amazing Stories Blog on the date of release and can be found here.
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