I'm an aspiring sci-fi writer and lover of everything space travel. Which magazines should I be reading (and/or submitting to)?

Today, I feel inspired (and maybe provoked?) by this line from Cixin Liu's postscript to The Three Body Problem: "I’ve always felt that the greatest and most beautiful stories in the history of humanity were not sung by wandering bards or written by playwrights and novelists, but told by science."

Looking forward to reading "The Foghorn" in one big, hungry gulp as soon as I can get a copy.

...protagonist having another bad day in his lonely Neptunian prison.

"After 800 years orbiting Neptune, I’m not easily surprised, but this is pretty god damn surprising. Not surprising like when you find a hair in your soup. Surprising like when you wake up from cold sleep and find a MUSHROOM the size of a refrigerator growing inside your space station."

A snip from my current sci-fi manuscript:

"Awoken by the pulsing substrate around it, a direclaw cracks its joints in glacial shrieks as if shrugging off the mountain behind it, and as it raises its thorax above the bedrock, its skeletal legs lunge jaggedly into slow, stomping motion."

AI visual:

Thanks! It's taking me to all kinds of places, so it's a gratifiying – but no less taxing – writing experience.

Introducing my new office buddy, The Right Honorable Rev. Spindler 🕸️

Future book news here: a new Children book next year and three other SF to come from Pan MacMillan.

@aptshadow.bsky.social I've been obsessed with the simulation engine idea from Children of Memory from the second I finished the book. Whichever direction you take this series in, you'll have a devoted and massively appreciative reader right here. Thank you ❤️

Children of Ruin was a transformative read for me. The Mel Hudson audio version on Audible is an absolute jewel of a performance. I try to channel my inner Fabian (and just a touch of Kern) every time I sit down to write.

Happy to see distributed intelligence appearing twice on here. A topic worthy of thousands of pages. I did 250 myself in my doctoral dissertation (monstrously illustrative pic below 👇)

My current sci-fi project. Would love ideas and inspiration, so please go nuts in the comments 👇👇

What's it about:

A lone orbital technician, stationed beyond Neptune, listens for signs of life. Then the transmission begins.

What follows isn’t a message—it’s a world.