Mission Statement:
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination was revived with the intent of providing readers with great free science fiction and fantasy short stories, while paying writers as much as possible for original stories. We believe that short fiction is the life blood of genre fiction.
Fantastic Stories endeavors to be inclusive; writers of all genders, sexual orientations, religions, and races are equally welcome here.
Our goal with this campaign is to help insure our ability to publish high quality science fiction and fantasy, while paying our writers and columnists one of the highest rates available in today’s marketplace. We also want to continue offering our content free (for one month) on the web, providing our writers a showcase for their considerable talents. Readership has grown with each of our first seven monthly issues.
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination is edited by Warren Lapine, who has been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Chesley awards. In the last twenty years he has been the publisher or editor of
Weird Tales,
Realms of Fantasy,
Absolute Magnitude,
Dreams of Decadence,
Fantastic Stories, and a number of other magazines and anthologies.
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Perk #1: Pledge $10.00 and get the five e-pubs/mobi from our first year and your name on the list of supporters on our website.
Perk #2: Pledge $15.00 and get all seven of the e-pubs/mobi to date, as well as the annual e-pub anthology, and your name on the list of supporters on our website.
Perk #3: Pledge $25.00 and get everything in the first two perks and a one year subscription to the e-pub version of the magazine, as well as the annual e-pub/mobi anthology, and your name on the list of supporters on our website.
Perk #4: Pledge $45.00 and get everything in the first three perks as well as the hardcover edition of the annual print anthology, signed by Warren Lapine.
Perk #5: Pledge $60.00 and get everything in the first four perks, as well as a signed ARC of the annual print anthology.
Perk #6: Pledge $100.00 and get everything from the first five perks and a Fantastic Stories T-shirt.
Perk #7: Pledge $200.00 and get everything in the first six perks and a life-time subscription to the e-pub/mobi version of the magazine.
Perk #8: Pledge $250.00 get everything in the first seven perks and receive a story critique from Jay O’Connell. (Jay is one of the editors of our e-pub book line and has had fiction appear in
Asimov’s,
Interzone,
F&SF, and elsewhere.) (3 available)
Perk #9: Pledge $300.00 and get everything in the first seven perks and receive a story critique by our editor-in-chief, Warren Lapine. (5 available)
Perk #10: Pledge $400.00 and get everything in the first seven perks and receive a copy of the
Shadows and Reflections limited edition Roger Zelazny anthology, edited by Warren Lapine and Trent Zelazny, and signed by all the authors, including Neil Gaiman and Steven Brust. (5 Available)
Perk #11: Pledge $500.00 and get everything in the first seven perks and multiple Hugo Award winning author Allen Steele will name a character after you in an upcoming book. (1 available)
Perk #12: Pledge $500.00 and get everything in the first seven perks and Jay O’Connell will work a photo of you into the illustration for an upcoming story in Fantastic Stories. (3 available)
Perk #13: Pledge $600.00 and get everything in the first seven perks and have dinner with editor Warren Lapine, and authors Allen Steele and Shariann Lewitt. This will take place at Readercon, July 11th, 2015. (And we’ll pay for the meal). (3 available)
Perk #14: Pledge $700.00 and get everything in the first seven perks and get personal responses from Warren Lapine on your next six submissions. (5 available)
Perk # 15: Pledge $750.00 and get everything in the first seven perks and have the next annual e-pub anthology dedicated to a person of your choice. (1 available)
Perk #16: Pledge $1,000.00 and get everything in the first seven perks and have the annual print anthology dedicated to you. (1 available)
