Strange Horizons stories go Creative Commons - fundraiser, too!
Jed Hartman, co-editor of the amazing science fiction webzine Strange Horizons, writes to say,Ben Rosenbaum asked us Strange Horizons editors a few months back to put a CC license on his Hugo-nominated story "The House Beyond Your Sky." After we did that, we asked our other authors if they would like us to put CC licenses on their works in our archives.In other Strange Horizons news, they're running a fundraising drive. Jed adds,Over a dozen of our other authors decided to license their archived stories, poems, and articles, with various licenses. I've now listed most of the newly licensed pieces in two entries in my journal: One, Two.
We're a nonprofit online speculative fiction magazine that pays professional rates for fiction; we're run by a staff of 30 volunteers; we've published new material every week, freely available online, for nearly 7 years (and almost all of it is still available in our archives), including fiction, poetry, articles, reviews, art, and columns; we're funded entirely by donations, in a sort of public-radio-like model; in the US, donations to us are tax-deductible. Stuff we publish gets picked up regularly for Year's Best reprint volumes. This year a story we published was on the Nebula ballot and another is on the Hugo ballot.I'll add that SH is one of the best short fiction publishers in the world, consistently putting out a free product that holds its own against any print or online market.
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