What Is Planet Magazine?

Planet Magazine: Wild Science Fiction and Fantasy — Online since 1994 — FREE!

Planet is the free, award-winning and groundbreaking electronic magazine of short science fiction and fantasy by emerging writers and illustrators. Our goal is to encourage authors and artists and to just have fun. There could be other, hidden aims, of course, motivations that are obscure and uncomfortable, instincts linked perhaps to primal, nonreasoning urges regarding power and procreation — the very same forces, no doubt, that brought down the Atlanteans and their alabaster-towered oceanic empire. And the Dark Gods laffed….

How to Read Planet Magazine

There are three basic ways to read Planet Magazine, which in September 2004 changed from a quarterly webzine (HTML) format to a regularly updated blog-style format:

– Read the latest posts in the main column on the home page. The top posting is the newest, and they get older as you page down. Stories, poems, and editorial commentary will be intermingled.

- Choose a category in the sidebar. The Stories and Poems categories will get you reading right away, which is especially important if you’re at work right now and don’t know when the boss might show up.

– Explore. Browse through the archives by date or month, the categories, the recent postings, and any comments from other readers.

To return to the main page at any time, click on the Planet Magazine logo at the top of any page.

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Back Issues

Since 1994, Planet Magazine has appeared in a variety of formats, mostly HTML (Web pages) but also Acrobat PDF, plain text, DOCMaker (Macintosh only), and Palm (PRC). Click below to access these issues. Planet now appears in a weblog-style format, which displays recent entries and archives them automatically. Please use the Calendar or the Categories on the sidebar to access current stories and poems.

HTML (web) format:
http://www.planetmag.com/index2.htm (for web format)

Other (PDF, text, Palm, DOCMaker):
http://www.planetmag.com/formats.htm *

Submission Guidelines

WRITERS & POETS:

Read Planet Magazine first to get a sense of what we want in terms of style and story length.

Planet Magazine accepts original, unpublished, and complete short science fiction or fantasy stories and poems from any adult writer. Accepted stories will be proofread and minor changes (such as corrections to punctuation or spelling) may be made without contacting the author. For any higher-level changes, a rewrite or an update will be requested from the author. We reserve the right to reject any story or poem for any reason. Due to the volume of submissions, we cannot always critique rejected submissions.