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Dieselpunk
Edited by Sean Monaghan
I will be editing an anthology of Dieselpunk stories. Dieselpunk is a blasting, belching, roaring speculative fiction, driven by thunderous machines dominating the landscape.
Close cousins with Steampunk, Dieselpunk goes a step further into internal combustion, jet power and rocketry. This is a seat-of-your-pants ride, no computers to save your life, no electronic calibration to guide your trajectory, no GPS, iPhone or XBox. Just you and your humming throaty machines tearing the sky and landscape. Think 1950s fighter jets, think giant Union Pacific locomotives, think trans-continental trucking. Of course there are gentler kinds too - let your imagination roam; love stories, fantasy, horror, sci-fi. Do what you will, but the key concept is some internal/external combustion machines, without electronics.
Wikipedia defines it like this, under Cyberpunk derivatives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieselpunk#Dieselpunk
Guidelines
Any genre except erotica. Any length, though query for stories over 5,000 words.
Send your manuscript as an .rtf file to dieselpunk_sm@ymail.com with the words Dieselpunk Anthology and your name in the subject line.
Single space, indented paragraphs, no space between paragraphs.
No headers, footers, or embedded text, no page numbers.
Please put the bio at the end of the story in the manuscript, beginning with "About the author:"
How to format your submission:
http://www.staticmovement.com/formattingastaticmanuscript.htm
This is a non paying anthology, no money and no copy. A contract will be required.
No reprints. No simultaneous submissions. Response time should be within a few days.
Open until filled. No payment is made and no copy given for this anthology.
Please send one story at a time... and do not send the same story to more than one of our anthologies, it is wasting time for us and might get you rejected from all of them. Thanks. (This is a publisher note)
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« Reply #1 on Jan 24, 2011, 11:25pm » | |
Very cool, man. I'm gonna write one for this.
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« Reply #2 on Jan 25, 2011, 1:01pm » | |
Excellency! 
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« Reply #3 on Jan 25, 2011, 2:23pm » | |
Very cool - looking forward to submissions.
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« Reply #4 on Jan 26, 2011, 9:29pm » | |
I'm about 800 words deep into my story for this so far. Hopefully, I'll have it finished by the weekend.
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« Reply #5 on Jan 26, 2011, 9:32pm » | |
Excellent Joe - looking forward to seeing it.
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« Reply #6 on Jan 26, 2011, 11:38pm » | |
Sean, great to see that you're editing this one. This will be a terrific book.
However...
As much as I've loved the Static Movement covers so far, I'm not entirely sure this one fits the theme. This cover looks more suited to some manner of warfare stories.
When I read Sean's description of Dieselpunk my mind envisions pictures like the ones Bruce McCall used to illustrate for National Lampoon. For instance, http://tinyurl.com/4cr3zpn
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« Reply #7 on Jan 27, 2011, 2:33pm » | |
Thanks Marty, and mmm, that's a delicious picture.
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« Reply #8 on Jan 27, 2011, 3:03pm » | |
The cover stays, so I hope that won't deter you from submitting...
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« Reply #9 on Jan 27, 2011, 5:09pm » | |
If I can think of a story, it won't deter me from submitting. It's a great theme for a book.
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« Reply #10 on Jan 27, 2011, 5:24pm » | |
I look forwards to your story Marty. I am happy with the cover - I'm hoping it inspires a specific story from someone (Marty?). Or perhaps multiple stories with different takes.
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« Reply #11 on Jan 27, 2011, 7:33pm » | |
I'm still working this dieselpunk thing out. Sometime later tonight I'll send a story. I think it fits.
Dave
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« Reply #12 on Jan 27, 2011, 9:16pm » | |
Excellent.
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« Reply #14 on Jan 30, 2011, 10:31am » | |
Fin. I'm sending it out now.
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