Electric Velocipede
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Electric Velocipede is a Hugo Award
winning small press speculative fiction zine edited by John Klima
. First published in 2001, Electric Velocipede has featured stories by some of the genre's leading fiction writers, including Hal Duncan
, Jeffrey Ford, Catherynne M. Valente
and Leslie What. Currently on issue 21/22, the zine has garnered considerable praise and accolades, including stories reprinted in year's best volumes plus award wins and nominations for the magazine, contributed stories, and the editor.
was inspired to create a magazine by editor Gavin Grant
during a panel at Readercon
. The first issue made its debut at the 2001 SFWA
Writers/Editors Banquet. At that point Klima began selling single issues and subscriptions.
Klima was able to publish two issues a year and gained the ability to pay contributors with issue #10 in 2006. That same year, under the aegis of his independent publishing company Spilt Milk Press, Klima published chapbooks by Electric Velocipede authors. These included The Sense of Falling by Ezra Pines, An Alternate History of the 21st Century by William Shunn
, and Psychological Methods to Sell Must Be Destroyed by Robert Freeman Wexler
.
The first 16 issues of Electric Velocipede were produced and published solely by Klima. In 2008 he announced a partnership with independent publisher Night Shade Books
to publish and distribute the zine. Issue 20 debuted at WisCon
in May 2010 but was not available for widespread distribution until August 2010.
, Hal Duncan
, Charles Coleman Finlay
, Jeffrey Ford
, Alex Irvine, Jay Lake
, Sandra McDonald
, Patrick O'Leary
, Bruce Holland Rogers
, Catherynne M. Valente
, Jeff VanderMeer
, Leslie What
, Liz Williams
, and Marly Youmans
.
Hugo Award
The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...
winning small press speculative fiction zine edited by John Klima
John Klima (editor)
John Klima is an American anthology and science fiction magazine editor, whose science fiction zine, Electric Velocipede, won the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 2009. He was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2007, 2008, and 2009 for his work on the magazine.He spent the first quarter century...
. First published in 2001, Electric Velocipede has featured stories by some of the genre's leading fiction writers, including Hal Duncan
Hal Duncan
Hal Duncan is a Scottish science fiction and fantasy writer who published two novels, one novella, three poetry collections and several short stories.His works have been listed in the New Weird genre but he denies that such genre was even known to him at the time...
, Jeffrey Ford, Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente , is a Tiptree–, Andre Norton–, and Mythopoeic Award–winning novelist, poet, and literary critic. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous Year's Best volumes...
and Leslie What. Currently on issue 21/22, the zine has garnered considerable praise and accolades, including stories reprinted in year's best volumes plus award wins and nominations for the magazine, contributed stories, and the editor.
History
In 2000 editor John KlimaJohn Klima (editor)
John Klima is an American anthology and science fiction magazine editor, whose science fiction zine, Electric Velocipede, won the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 2009. He was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2007, 2008, and 2009 for his work on the magazine.He spent the first quarter century...
was inspired to create a magazine by editor Gavin Grant
Gavin Grant
Gavin J. Grant is a science fiction editor and writer. He runs Small Beer Press along with his wife Kelly Link. In addition, he has been the editor of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet since 1996 and, from 2003 to 2008, was co-editor of the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series along with...
during a panel at Readercon
Readercon
Readercon is an annual science fiction convention, held every July in the Boston, Massachusetts area, in Burlington, Massachusetts). It was founded by Bob Colby and statistician Eric Van in the 1980s with the goal of focusing exclusively on science fiction in the written form Readercon is an...
. The first issue made its debut at the 2001 SFWA
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, or SFWA is a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. It was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the acronym SFWA after a very brief use of the SFFWA...
Writers/Editors Banquet. At that point Klima began selling single issues and subscriptions.
Klima was able to publish two issues a year and gained the ability to pay contributors with issue #10 in 2006. That same year, under the aegis of his independent publishing company Spilt Milk Press, Klima published chapbooks by Electric Velocipede authors. These included The Sense of Falling by Ezra Pines, An Alternate History of the 21st Century by William Shunn
William Shunn
William Shunn is a science fiction writer and computer programmer. He was raised in a Latter-day Saint household, the oldest of eight children. He attended the Clarion Workshop in 1985...
, and Psychological Methods to Sell Must Be Destroyed by Robert Freeman Wexler
Robert Freeman Wexler
Robert Freeman Wexler is an American writer of surreal fantasy. He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He was born in Houston, TX and lived there until leaving to attend college at the University of Texas in Austin, TX, where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism.-Books:* In Springdale Town ...
.
The first 16 issues of Electric Velocipede were produced and published solely by Klima. In 2008 he announced a partnership with independent publisher Night Shade Books
Night Shade Books
Night Shade Books is an independent publishing company based in San Francisco, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It was started in 1997 by Jason Williams, with Jeremy Lassen coming on board as a partner shortly after the company's founding...
to publish and distribute the zine. Issue 20 debuted at WisCon
WisCon
Wiscon or WisCon, the Wisconsin Science Fiction Convention, is often called the world's leading feminist-oriented science fiction convention and conference. It was first held in Madison, Wisconsin in February 1977, and is held annually throughout the four day weekend of Memorial Day...
in May 2010 but was not available for widespread distribution until August 2010.
Notable authors and stories
Electric Velocipede has featured work from award-winning and well-known speculative fiction authors from its first issue. Some of the contributors include: Marie BrennanMarie Brennan
Marie Brennan is the pseudonym of Bryn Neuenschwander, an American fantasy author. Her works include Doppelganger, its sequel Warrior and Witch, and numerous short stories. Her third novel, Midnight Never Come, was published on 1 May 2008 in the United Kingdom, and 1 June 2008 in the USA. It...
, Hal Duncan
Hal Duncan
Hal Duncan is a Scottish science fiction and fantasy writer who published two novels, one novella, three poetry collections and several short stories.His works have been listed in the New Weird genre but he denies that such genre was even known to him at the time...
, Charles Coleman Finlay
Charles Coleman Finlay
Charles Coleman Finlay is an American science fiction and fantasy author.He grew up in Marysville, Ohio and attended Ohio State University. He also attended the University of Oxford. His first story, Footnotes, was published in 2001 in Fantasy and Science Fiction where many of his stories have...
, Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is an American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales...
, Alex Irvine, Jay Lake
Jay Lake
Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is a science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. He lives in Portland, Oregon and currently works as a product manager...
, Sandra McDonald
Sandra McDonald
Sandra McDonald is an American science fiction and fantasy author.She is a graduate of Ithaca College, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine. She also spent eight years as an officer in the United States Navy, during which time she lived...
, Patrick O'Leary
Patrick O'Leary (writer)
Patrick O'Leary is an American science fiction and fantasy author and ad copy writer.O'Leary wrote the poem "Nobody Knows It But Me" which was used in the popular 2002 advertising campaign for the Chevrolet Tahoe and read in the commercial by James Garner.-Works:* Door Number Three * The Gift –...
, Bruce Holland Rogers
Bruce Holland Rogers
Bruce Holland Rogers is an American author of short fiction who also writes under the pseudonym Hanovi Braddock. His stories have won a Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, two World Fantasy Awards, the Micro Award, and have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and...
, Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente , is a Tiptree–, Andre Norton–, and Mythopoeic Award–winning novelist, poet, and literary critic. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous Year's Best volumes...
, Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer
Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer is an American writer, editor and publisher.He is best known for his contributions to the New Weird and his stories about the city of Ambergris, in books like City of Saints and Madmen.-Biography:...
, Leslie What
Leslie What
Leslie What is a writer of fantasy and literary fiction and nonfiction. She grew up in Southern California and attended Santa Ana College, and earned a certificate in Vocational Nursing...
, Liz Williams
Liz Williams
Dr Liz Williams is a British science fiction writer. The Ghost Sister, her first novel, was published in 2001. Both this novel and her next, Empire of Bones were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. She is also the author of the Inspector Chen series.Williams is the daughter of a stage...
, and Marly Youmans
Marly Youmans
Marly Youmans is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She grew up in Louisiana, North Carolina, and elsewhere, and she currently lives in the village of Cooperstown, New York with her husband and three children.-Life:She graduated from Hollins College, Brown University, and...
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Awards
- The Way He Does It by Jeffrey Ford (issue #10) - Nominated: Best Short Fiction, World Fantasy AwardWorld Fantasy AwardThe World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...
- Electric Velocipede - Winner: Best Fanzine, 2009 Hugo AwardHugo AwardThe Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...
- John Klima - Nominated: Special Award: Non-Professional, 2007 World Fantasy AwardWorld Fantasy AwardThe World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...
- John Klima - Nominated: Special Award: Non-Professional, 2008 World Fantasy AwardWorld Fantasy AwardThe World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...
- John Klima - Nominated: Special Award: Non-Professional, 2009 World Fantasy AwardWorld Fantasy AwardThe World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...
- John Klima - Nominated: Special Award: Non-Professional, 2010 World Fantasy AwardWorld Fantasy AwardThe World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...
Reprinted stories
- Moon Does Run by Edd Vick in Year's Best SF 12 (issue #11)
- How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth by Rachel Swirsky in Best American Fantasy 2 (issue #13)
Current issue
Issue 21/22, an oversized double-issue, is dated Fall 2010, but was not available in print until summer of 2011Fiction
- "The Mikarr Way" by Lyn Battersby
- "Mile Zero" by Dan Braum
- "T ME" by Alex Jennings
- "And to my wife . . ." by Shira Lipkin
- "Liminal" by Sean Melican
- "The Lost Continent" by Ian Shoebridge
- "Daughter of Fortune" by Cyril Simsa
Poetry
- "Nine Things About Oracles" by Shira Lipkin
- "Among a million Flowers" by Amy Mackiewicz
- "South of the woods" by Amy Mackiewicz
- "The Glass Girl" by Amy Mackiewicz
- "The Price of perfection" by Amy Mackiewicz
Nonfiction
- Interview with Paolo BacigalupiPaolo BacigalupiPaolo Tadini Bacigalupi is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Compton Crook, Theodore Sturgeon, and Michael L. Printz awards, and was nominated for the National Book Award...
- Sampling the Aspic with Penelope O'Shea
- Blindfold Taste Test by Laura Anne Gilman
Past issues
- Issue 1 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_one.htm
- Issue 2 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_two.htm
- Issue 3 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_three.htm
- Issue 4 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_four.htm
- Issue 5 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_five.htm
- Issue 6 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_six.htm
- Issue 7 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_seven.htm
- Issue 8 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_eight.htm
- Issue 9 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_nine.htm
- Issue 10 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_ten.htm
- Issue 11 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_eleven.htm
- Issue 12 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_twelve.htm
- Issue 13 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_thirteen.htm
- Issue 14 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_fourteen.htm
- All-female issue in honor of the WisConWisConWiscon or WisCon, the Wisconsin Science Fiction Convention, is often called the world's leading feminist-oriented science fiction convention and conference. It was first held in Madison, Wisconsin in February 1977, and is held annually throughout the four day weekend of Memorial Day...
Feminist Science Fiction Convention. Contributors: Lida Broadhurst, Karen Joy Fowler, Erin Hoffman, Elissa Malcohn, Lisa Mantchev, Tracie McBride, Sandra McDonald, Melissa Mead, Penelope O’Shea, Jennifer Pelland, Sara Saab, Michelle Scott, Sonya Taaffe, Leslie Claire Walker, D. E. Wasden, Leslie What, Sharon E. Woods, and Erzebet YellowBoy. Cover by: Lisa Snellings-Clark.
- All-female issue in honor of the WisCon
- Issue 15/16 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/issues/issues-11-20/issue-15-16/ (Cover: http://www.electricvelocipede.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/issue-15-16.jpg)
- The first double issue.
- Issue 17/18 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/issues/issues-11-20/issue-17-18/ (cover: http://www.electricvelocipede.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/issue-17-18.jpg)
- Issue 19 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/issues/issues-11-20/issue-19/
- Issue 20 http://www.electricvelocipede.com/issues/issues-11-20/issue-20
