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F&SF January 2008 Acquisitions

F&SF January 2008 Acquisitions

F&SF‘s January acquisitions include:

  • The Political Prisoner – Charles Coleman Finlay (28,000 words)
  • The Visionaries – Robert Reed (8400)
  • The Monopoly Man – Barry B. Longyear (6900)
  • Quickstone – Marc Laidlaw (11,500)
  • Songwood – Marc Laidlaw (6400)
  • Arkfall – Carolyn Ives Gilman (21,000)
  • Dazzle Joins the Screenwriter’s Guild – Scott Bradfield (7300)

Discussion

  • John Klima

    9:49 am Jan-31-2008 Reply

    So does F&SF run the novella things all in one issue, or does it ever break things up? I guess what makes me ask is the Finlay piece which is pretty big.

  • Charlie Finlay

    10:55 am Jan-31-2008 Reply

    I’m sure JJA will have a more definitive answer, but Gordon has run some long novellas all in one issue (especially in the Oct/Nov double issues) and he’s split some up over two issues (Terry Bisson’s planetary romance and Matthew Hughes’ “Hero and his Helper”). He hasn’t told me yet what he plans to do with this one, but it’s the longest short fiction piece I’ve ever sold.

  • MarcL

    1:11 pm Jan-31-2008 Reply

    Ha! Cool!

  • Purah

    1:26 pm Jan-31-2008 Reply

    Woot for Laidlaw!

  • John Joseph Adams

    10:16 pm Jan-31-2008 Reply

    Like Charlie said. I don’t know what Gordon’s plans for The Political Prisoner are, but I would think that could run in one issue. The Matt Hughes was nearly 40,000 words, and I’m pretty sure the Bisson was more than 30,000.

    Nice to see you dropping by, Marc. BTW, someone was jealously cursing your name in the comments of my LiveJournal feed:
    http://johnjosephadams.livejournal.com/667091.html

  • MarcL

    1:35 am Feb-1-2008 Reply

    JJA, I noticed your listing of monthly acquisitions a couple months back, and hoped maybe I could get the scoop on my sales ahead of the actual contracts. Sure enough! I wrote three Gorlen Vizenfirthe stories in a row last spring, sent one to Gordon to test the water (“Childrun”), and when he bought that one, I felt compelled to finish up the other two. I’m really happy to see they’ll all run together in F&SF, their ancestral home (the other Gorlen stories, “Dankden” and “Catamounts” also appeared in F&SF, under the reigns of Ferman and Rusch…I think). Keep up the leaks!

  • John Klima

    11:44 am Feb-4-2008 Reply

    Cool. I think in terms of the word count I use, and at 58,000/issue (and that includes ToC, ads, columns, i.e., not just fiction) 28K would eat up a chunk of space.

  • Not So Few Monstrosities » Blog Archive » The Return of Gorlen Vizenfirthe

    8:39 pm Feb-4-2008 Reply

    [...] was pleased to learn, here (at the website of John Joseph Adams, assistant to Gordon Van Gelder), that I’ve sold a [...]

About JJA

John Joseph Adams is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, such as Armored, Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom, Brave New Worlds, Wastelands, The Living Dead, The Living Dead 2, By Blood We Live, Federations, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and The Way of the Wizard. He is a four-time finalist for the Hugo Award and a three-time finalist for the World Fantasy Award. He is also the editor and publisher of Lightspeed Magazine, and is the co-host of Wired.com’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.

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