InterGalactic Medicine Show
Webzine | |
Owner | Hatrack River Enterprises |
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Created by | Orson Scott Card |
URL | intergalacticmedicineshow |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Annual subscription |
Launched | October 2005 |
Current status | Defunct since June 2019 |
InterGalactic Medicine Show (sometimes shortened to IGMS) was an American
History
The magazine's original publishing schedule, as reported on Sci Fi Wire on 29 September 2005, was to be quarterly, with columns updated monthly. The first issue was released 15 October 2005, the second released 1 March 2006, the third was released 2 October 2006 and the fourth was released 20 February 2007. Since the fifth issue in July 2007, new issues have been released quarterly.[1] Beginning in March 2009, the magazine's schedule was increased to bi-monthly, while the amount of content per issue was slightly reduced.
The first two issues were edited by Card himself. The magazine was edited by Edmund R. Schubert from June 2006 until June 2016.[2] Scott Roberts took over as the editor beginning in July 2016.[3]
In June 2019, the magazine ceased publication with issue #69.[4]
Stories and features
IGMS featured original stories by such award-winning authors as
In 2009, Greg Siewert's story, "The Absence of Stars: Part One" won the
In addition to the fiction, the site featured weekly columns and reviews, along with regular author interviews.[1]
Anthology
Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, an anthology reprinting selected stories from the webzine, was published by Tor in August, 2008,[5] edited by Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card.
Two further reprint anthologies were published as e-books; a collection of stories winning the magazine's reader's award, InterGalactic Medicine Show Awards Anthology, Vol. I Kindle Edition in 2012,[6] and a second anthology, IGMS: Big Book of SF Novelettes, published by Hatrack River as an e-book in 2013, with further reprints of stories that have appeared in the magazine.[7]
Staff
- Orson Scott Card, Publisher and Executive Editor
- Scott Roberts, Editor (July 2016 – June 2019)
- Cyndie Swindlehurst, Managing Editor
- Scott J. Allen, Web Designer
- Sara Ellis, Assistant Editor
- Chris Bellamy, Assistant Editor & Art Director
- Lauren M. Harris, Assistant Editor (started in 2015)
- John Ellis, Assistant Editor
- Lawrence M. Schoen, Reprint Editor
Former staff
- Kathleen A. Bellamy, Managing Editor
- Edmund R. Schubert, Editor (June 2006-June 2016)
- Eric James Stone, Assistant Editor (departed at the end of 2014)
See also
- List of works by Orson Scott Card
References
- ^ a b Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, April 9, 2015
- ^ InterGalactic Medicine Show listing at Internet Science Fiction Database (retrieved 4 January 2015)
- ^ "New InterGalactic Medicine Show Editor". Locus Online. July 12, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
- ^ From Editor InterGalactic Medicine Show.
- ^ Amazon
- ^ InterGalactic Medicine Show Awards Anthology, Vol. I Kindle Edition, Amazon Listing
- ^ Jamie Todd Rubin, A New Reprint Anthology from InterGalactic Medicine Show (with a story by me!), December 26, 2013
External links
- Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Side-Show Freaks, Editor Edmund R. Schubert's IGMS blog featuring essays by authors whose work appears on the IGMS site
- Tangent reviews of stories in IGMS