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Eye To The Telescope 35, Hard SF contents finalized. Except my intro. You will see it soon. DN 114 somewhat delayed, but nearly ready to jump back into that. Sale to Polu Texni--will be up sometime soon. New full-length collection, The Ambassador Takes One For The Team--hard SF poetry. Ebook available momentarily; print book in a week or so.

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Back in the saddle again. In the next few days I will be going through the rest of the submissions to Eye To The Telescope. The deadline is midnight tonight. If you have anything else in your quiver, shoot it to me now.

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I have been reading submissions to Dreams and Nightmares and ETTT. However, I can't open attached files on my phone. So I am afraid that I am only responding to submissions that were embedded in email messages. When I get home, I will pretty quickly be able to deal with the others. I am writing a few things as well, besides the ones I post here, which are mainly written very quickly.

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Eye to the Telescope 35, Hard Science Fiction Tropes, will be edited by David C. Kopaska-Merkel.

Hard science fiction is based on contemporary or historical science extrapolated into the future (which may also be the past). Think anything from H. G. Wells or Jules Verne to Larry Niven or C. J. Cherryh. Noteworthy hard science fiction poetry has been written by F. J. Bergmann, Ruth Berman, Geoffrey Landis, David Lunde, Ann K Schwader, and Gene Wolfe, among many others. The technology doesn't have to be the main point of the poem, but technological advances have to be integral to it. Many poems are set in technological futures, but the focus is usually on the people.

Tropes include time travel, matter transmission, alternate worlds, faster than light travel, fundamental changes in human bodies (intentional or otherwise), alien technology, and lots more. You can take a serious look at the implications of technology, especially taking fresh looks at widely used tropes such as those I just mentioned, or you can poke fun at themes from science-fiction literature that you feel have been done to death. Consider the implications of recent scientific advances, or established technology whose implications have not been properly appreciated. Or, look at the far distant future, at times when humanity or its works may be utterly different than they are now, if they exist at all. The use of vehicles such as parallel worlds to find the familiar in things that are completely different (or vice versa) also would be in keeping with the theme of this issue.

Pieces submitted can be of any tone, length, or poetic form, but please keep in mind this is a speculative poetry journal, so submissions are expected to be identifiable as works of science fiction, or an affiliated genre of speculative fiction. Translations are also welcome, and should be submitted in English as well as in the original language. Reprints will be considered if they appeared long ago or someplace obscure.

If your poetry pays homage to the work of a particular author or scientist, and you want this to be known, include the relevant information in your cover letter. Should your poem be selected for inclusion, the background info you've provided will be included in the introduction to the issue.

I’m really looking forward to reading your work!

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Eye To The Telescope, Infection issue, with a poem by me: "Moving Up"

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I like the theme of the next Eye To The Telescope: Crossroads. Already started work on an entry.

Eye To The Telescope

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Eye To The Telescope is a speculative poetry ezine with themed issues. The theme this time is science poetry.

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Mundane SF Poetry

Eye To The Telescope needs poems!

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The Science Fiction Poetry Association's e-zine, Eye To The Telescope, needs submissions!

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Weird Verse

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Eye To The Telescope needs you!

The SFPA's quarterly webzine Eye to the Telescope is seeking speculative (SF/fantasy/horror) poetry with a LGBT theme for its next issue.

Pay is .03 a word/$25 max. The deadline is June 15th.

From the editor: I am looking for LGBT as well as gender-neutral and intersexual themed speculative poems for Issue #5 of Eye to the Telescope. As this can be a touchy subject matter for some, I’m not interested in poetry that is either overtly didactic or—this should go without saying—that perpetuates stereotypes (and although sensual poetry is fine, pure erotica will be a hard sell). That said, I am open to dark humor and poetry that provokes (I’ll trust the poets to figure out the fine line between didactic and provocative and between sensual and erotic).

I would prefer that the LGBT aspect of the poetry be subtle and organic to the poem. As I'd love to highlight as diverse a variety of poetry possible, I’m open to everything from formal/classical forms (haiku, sonnets, etc.) to concrete, Dadaism, abstract, postmodernism, avant-garde, surrealism, bizzaro, or whatever else you have to offer, just as long as the poem is speculative (see definition below) and includes the LGBT theme in some way.

For complete guidelines and where to submit, visit Eye to the Telescope: http://eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html