The Future Fire

Published On Sunday, July 03, 2011 By admin. Under: F, Fantasy, Fiction, Fiction Only, literary magazine, New and Interesting, Online Literary Magazine, Online Submissions, Science Fiction.

Magazine Name:	The Future Fire
Website:	http://futurefire.net/
Editor:	Djibril al-Ayad
Mailing Address:
Email:	fiction@futurefire.net
Circulation:
Submission Guidelines:	http://futurefire.net/about/index.html
Approximate Response Time	4-6 weeks maximum
Publishes:	Quarterly (but currently on hiatus)
Year Founded:	2005
Online Submissions?	Yes
Information about your publication:	Online magazine of socio-political speculative fiction: Feminist SF; Queer SF; Eco SF. (Currently closed to submissions; will reopen in 2011.)
What type of submissions you are looking for:	In our manifesto we say that good fiction should be both beautiful and useful. First and foremost a good story: well-written, original, tightly plotted, containing necessary details, believable characters and setting, and beautiful and unexpected use of language. But we have turned down the opportunity to publish many fine and beautiful stories that don’t contain the socio-political element we’re looking for. That is to say, stories that didn’t tell us something about our own world, about the injustice or corruption or bigotry or the other evils that make it so hard to live in. A convincingly terrifying dystopia that doesn’t contain 1984esque warnings about our own world; a thrilling military SF adventure that doesn’t bemoan (or satirize) the dehumanization of the soldier; an eco-thriller that doesn’t show us what we need to change in our lives now to prevent catastrophe from happening. Equally, the most useful story, in these senses, wont find a place in! our pag es unless it is also beautiful, writing of the highest quality, polished and poetic and surprising.