Categories | science fiction, fantasy |
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Frequency | Quarterly |
Publisher | Diane Walton, Managing Editor |
Founded | 1989 |
Country | Canada |
Based in | Edmonton, Alberta |
Website |
onspecmag |
On Spec [1] is a digest-sized, perfect-bound, Canadian quarterly magazine publishing stories and poetry in science fiction, fantasy, and allied genres broadly grouped under the " speculative fiction" umbrella.
Based in Edmonton, Alberta, [2] On Spec was founded in 1989 by a small group of Edmonton writers who joined together to form The Copper Pig Writers Society. [3] At the time, there was no paying market for English speculative fiction in Canada (though paying markets in French did exist). On Spec is Canada's longest-running, and according to author Robert J. Sawyer, most successful, English-language magazine in the field. [4]
Much more like a traditional small literary magazine than the mass-market-styled American science fiction digests such as Analog and Asimov's, On Spec was founded to address the frustration that English-speaking Canadian SF writers faced having to "Americanize" their stories for the existing US markets. [5]
Categories | science fiction, fantasy |
---|---|
Frequency | Quarterly |
Publisher | Diane Walton, Managing Editor |
Founded | 1989 |
Country | Canada |
Based in | Edmonton, Alberta |
Website |
onspecmag |
On Spec [1] is a digest-sized, perfect-bound, Canadian quarterly magazine publishing stories and poetry in science fiction, fantasy, and allied genres broadly grouped under the " speculative fiction" umbrella.
Based in Edmonton, Alberta, [2] On Spec was founded in 1989 by a small group of Edmonton writers who joined together to form The Copper Pig Writers Society. [3] At the time, there was no paying market for English speculative fiction in Canada (though paying markets in French did exist). On Spec is Canada's longest-running, and according to author Robert J. Sawyer, most successful, English-language magazine in the field. [4]
Much more like a traditional small literary magazine than the mass-market-styled American science fiction digests such as Analog and Asimov's, On Spec was founded to address the frustration that English-speaking Canadian SF writers faced having to "Americanize" their stories for the existing US markets. [5]