{"id":19843,"date":"2013-12-12T14:59:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T19:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=19843"},"modified":"2013-12-12T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T19:59:26","slug":"publishing-short-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/12\/publishing-short-science-fiction.html","title":{"rendered":"Publishing Short Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The students in my Religion and Science Fiction class this semester had as one of their assignments to write a short story. One student\u2019s story was not only significantly longer than the others, but it seems to me to be of publishable quality. Although I am a science fiction fan, I must confess that most of my reading of short stories has been in book collections rather than when they first appear in periodicals. And so I thought I would ask for advice. Does anyone have recommendations for places where a first-time science fiction author might have the possibility of getting a story published?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/02\/Religion-and-science-fiction-Pulp-O-Mizer_Cover_Image.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12801\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/02\/Religion-and-science-fiction-Pulp-O-Mizer_Cover_Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"508\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The students in my Religion and Science Fiction class this semester had as one of their assignments to write a short story. One student\u2019s story was not only significantly longer than the others, but it seems to me to be of publishable quality. 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