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 70th
Worldcon,
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.
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:
J.
Jay Jones
Barry
Malzberg
Lesley
Smith
Bill
Spangler
Karlo
Yeager
