Thrilling Tales!

[Bill Ward]

Pulp style adventure quarterly. Not in your lifetime you say?


Behold: www.thrillingtales.net

[Jordan Lapp]

3c a word ain't bad either...

Jordan Lapp

[MichaelEhart]

w00t!

"The Scarlet Colored Beast" The Sword Review, September 2007
"Nothing But Our Tears" The Sword Review. August 2007
"Weaving Spiders Come Not Here" The Sword Review, July 2007
"The View From the Shotglass Floor" Ray Gun Revival, coming soon!
"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, March 2007
"The Death of Number 23" Dark Krypt,Fall 2006
"Servant of the Manthycore" Sword Review, April 2006
"Voice of the Spoiler" Better Fiction,Spring 2006
"Dancing with the Elder Gods"-- Thirteen Magazine, October 2005
"It's a Living" Byzarium---November 2005
"An Exorcism Straight, Hold the Elvis" The Sword Review, October 2005
Host, 2005 Nebula Awards Live Chat, sff.net
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[Hawkinslad]

Doesn't look as if they're seeking SF or Sword and Sorcery pulp, though.

Nicholas Ian Hawkins


Forthcoming

'Relativity,' in FLASHSHOT

[tchernabyelo]

I wouldn't say that - 'replaced by the thrill of facing down villains with crime-fighters, soaring through the clouds with air aces, or travelling to far-off worlds.' - the latter certainly suggests SF would be acceptable, and by logical extension (given the era they're talking about recreating), sword-and-planet...

"The Box Of Beautiful Things" - IGMS#3
"The Man Who Was Never Afraid" - Abyss and Apex #19

[erazmus]

I guess there is only one way to find out . . .
(well two, you could query.)
Mike

Michael D. Turner
'Psyched Up' in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
'Dutchman Rescue'in Continuum SF #6
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'An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern' in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:
www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php

[Hawkinslad]

tchernabyelo said...
I wouldn't say that - 'replaced by the thrill of facing down villains with crime-fighters, soaring through the clouds with air aces, or travelling to far-off worlds.' - the latter certainly suggests SF would be acceptable, and by logical extension (given the era they're talking about recreating), sword-and-planet...

That does sound like SF would be acceptable. The references to fedoras and what not not is what threw me off. It appeared to me they were looking for pulp stories set in the pulp era of the 20s - 40s. I'm glad you posted the quotation above.

Nicholas Ian Hawkins


Forthcoming

'Relativity,' in FLASHSHOT

[Swashbuckler]

Gang ... I queried the editors at 'Thrilling Tales' about whether they'd accept sword-and-sorcery fiction. Their reply: 'Thrilling Tales' is not a home for sword and sorcery fiction.

So, while it sure sounds like a fun magazine, it isn't open to sword-bearing barbarians and the like.

Steve Goble

Visit my web site for news on upcoming stories or visit my blog, Swords Against Boredom

[Bill Ward]

Just give your barb a hat and a .32 and put him in a zeppelin Steve.

[erazmus]

But Spacesuits and Sixguns specifically says S&S in their guidelines. So I guess we go there.
Mike

Michael D. Turner
'Psyched Up' in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
'Dutchman Rescue'in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

'An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern' in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:
www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php

[Swashbuckler]

Mike: 'Spacesuits and Sixguns' will look at S&S, but the editor has told me in rejecting a couple of pieces that S&S will be a 'tough sell' in his words. So if you send him some, make sure it's something you really think will blow his socks off.

Steve Goble

Visit my web site for news on upcoming stories or visit my blog, Swords Against Boredom

[Bill Ward]

Spacesuits & Sixguns seems to have a bit of a disconnect with what they are asking for and what is actually in issue one -- iirc none of that stuff was pulpy or action oriented at all. Could be the content will better reflect the guidlines as time goes on.

[crystalwizard]

WDWard said...
Just give your barb a hat and a .32 and put him in a zeppelin Steve.

Or turn him into a robot

[Swashbuckler]

WD: I think the editor at 'Spacesuits and Sixguns' is going through some growing pains trying to figure out exactly what he wants. Case in point: I had a sword-and-sorcery story on hold there, for consideration in the debut issue. He informed me of this in a very positive e-mail, saying great things about the story, etc. Just one week later, I get the rejection. The story that almost made it into the debut issue wasn't even worth considering for issue two. The editor cited 'growing pains' and shifting ideas of what the content ought to be. Big shift for one week, if you ask me.

I, too, noticed a bit of disconnect between the mag's stated intentions and what the editor publishes. I'm hoping he figures out where he's going somewhere down the road.

Steve Goble

Visit my web site for news on upcoming stories or visit my blog, Swords Against Boredom

[erazmus]

It takes time, Steve, for a publication to settle in. And feedback. If he's still around the next time I have a 'blow your socks off' S&S piece available to a three cent a word market, I'll give him a chance. Given my best piece is at Weird Tales, with at least half a dozen pro-markets to go (I skew WT because I want to get a sale there) that would be for issue eleven or twelve, at best.

It is frustrating, when you finally see S&S mentioned in other than a 'this is not a market for . . .' in a guideline, to find they don't mean it.

Mike

Michael D. Turner
'Psyched Up' in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
'Dutchman Rescue'in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

'An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern' in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:
www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php