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Editorial: Welcome to Salon Futura



Hello, and welcome to the first issue of Salon Futura, a new and hopefully somewhat different magazine devoted to the discussion of science fiction, fantasy and other forms of speculative literature.

Each month some of our regular team of contributors will bring you articles of interest. To save space here I have introduced them at the start of their pieces for this issue. In addition we are open to submissions for guest articles. The submission guidelines can be found here. Each issue will also contain a podcast discussion and one or two video interviews.

This issue is going out at the beginning of September to coincide with the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne. However, we know that there are a lot of online magazines publishing around the first of the month, so over the next few months we will be drifting slowly towards the middle of the month, where we intend to come to rest.

Salon Futura is available for free online. However, we do pay our contributors, and have business expenses. As usual with such ventures you can help us stay in business by donating, buying books through the links on this site, or by advertising.

http://www.salonfutura.net/

Editorial: April 2011

April 11, 2011

Well, this is an editorial I hoped I wouldn't have to write for a while.

As you probably all know, this is not the best of times to be starting a new business. With all of the economic uncertainty, people are buying less, and that includes books. Fortunately Wizard's Tower was planned to require little in the way of operating expenses. We will be able to keep publishing books (indeed we have two more coming out this month), and running the bookstore. However, Salon Futura is not so cheap to run, primarily because we pay our contributors. I had been subsidizing the magazine because I knew it would take time to build a reputation, but the economic crisis has just hit my other business rather badly and I can no longer afford to do so.

There is enough money in the bank for one more issue, but unless there is some sort of miracle in the coming month then issue #9 will be our last. I'm not going to run a "Save Salon Futura" campaign, because what the magazine needs is regular income, not one small injection of cash. But I will keep looking for sources of funding.

I'll do a proper thanks editorial next month, as there are a lot of people to thank, but in particular I'm very grateful that we did have a small number of regular and supportive readers.

Cheryl