InterGalactic Medicine Show (sometimes shortened to IGMS) is an American

United States

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 online

Online magazine

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 fantasy and science fiction magazine

Science fiction magazine

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. It was founded by multiple award-winning author Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...

. An anthology also called Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show

Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show

Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show is an anthology edited by Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card.Originally published in paperback by Tor Books in August 2008 , It contains eighteen stories from Card's online magazine InterGalactic Medicine Show including four from Card set in his...

was published by Tor in August, 2008, featuring selected stories from the webzine. IGMS has featured original stories by such award-winning authors as Peter S. Beagle

Peter S. Beagle

Peter Soyer Beagle is an American fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays. His most notable works include the novels The Last Unicorn, A Fine and Private Place and Tamsin, and the award-winning story "Two Hearts".-Career:Beagle won early recognition from The Scholastic Art &...

, David Farland, Tim Pratt

Tim Pratt

Tim Pratt is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. He grew up in the vicinity of Dudley, North Carolina, and attended Appalachian State University, where he earned a Bachelor's in English. In 1999 he attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop...

, Eugie Foster

Eugie Foster

Eugie Foster is a Nebula Award winning Asian American short story writer, columnist, and editor. Her stories have been published in a number of magazines and book anthologies, including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Interzone. Her...

, Bud Sparhawk

Bud Sparhawk

John C. "Bud" Sparhawk is an American science fiction author. He is best known for the strong scientific basis for his work, and also his humorous science fiction, in particular his Sam Boone series of short fiction.- Biography :...

, Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal

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, James Maxey, Mette Ivie Harrison, Sharon Shinn

Sharon Shinn

Sharon Shinn is an American novelist who writes combining aspects of fantasy, science fiction and romance. She has published more than a dozen novels for adult and young adult readers. She works as a journalist in St. Louis, Missouri and is a graduate of Northwestern University.Sharon is a...

, Eric James Stone

Eric James Stone

Eric James Stone is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. He won the 2004 Writers of the Future contest, and has published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Jim Baen's Universe...

 and Orson Scott Card. In addition to short fiction, each issue is fully illustrated and includes audio content, interviews, and serialization of longer works by Card.

In 2009, Greg Siewert's story, "The Absence of Stars: Part One" won the WSFA Small Press Award

WSFA Small Press Award

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 for best short story of the year. Other IGMS stories have been nominated for national awards and/or been reprinted in various Year's Best anthologies and on the Locus (magazine)

Locus (magazine)

Locus, subtitled "The Magazine Of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field", is published monthly in Oakland, California. It reports on the science fiction and fantasy publishing field, including comprehensive listings of all new books published in the genre. It is considered the news organ and trade...

annual recommended reading list.

History

The magazine's original publishing schedule, as reported on Sci Fi Wire on 29 September 2005, was to be quarterly, with columns updated monthly. The first issue was released 15 October 2005, the second released 1 March 2006, the third was released 2 October 2006 and the fourth was released 20 February 2007. Since the fifth issue in July 2007, new issues have been released quarterly. Beginning in March 2009, the magazine's schedule was increased to bi-monthly, while the amount of content per issue was slightly reduced.

The first two issues were edited by Card himself. Since the third issue, the magazine has been edited by Edmund R. Schubert.

Staff

• Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
  
  , Publisher and Executive Editor
• Edmund R. Schubert
  Edmund R. Schubert
  Edmund R. Schubert is an American author and editor best known for his work in the fields of science fiction and fantasy, though some of his short stories are mysteries, including one that was a preliminary nominee for an Edgar Award in 2006 for Best Short Story...
  
  , Editor
• Kathleen A. Bellamy, Managing Editor
• Scott J. Allen, Web Designer
• Sara Ellis, Assistant Editor
• Scott Roberts, Assistant Editor
• Eric James Stone, Assistant Editor
• Chris Bellamy, Assistant Editor

External links

• Official site
• Side-Show Freaks, Editor Edmund R. Schubert's IGMS blog featuring essays by authors whose work appears on the IGMS site