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Message:	[quote author=mazer board=monaghan thread=425 post=5818 time=1296103112]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 [/quote] Expand
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Posted by Chris Bartholomew on Jan 24, 2011, 10:58pm

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)

Posted by jjablonski on Jan 24, 2011, 11:25pm

Very cool, man. I'm gonna write one for this.

Posted by ajfrench on Jan 25, 2011, 1:01pm

Excellency!

Posted by Sean Monaghan on Jan 25, 2011, 2:23pm

Very cool - looking forward to submissions.

Posted by jjablonski 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.

Posted by Sean Monaghan on Jan 26, 2011, 9:32pm

Excellent Joe - looking forward to seeing it.

Posted by Marty 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

Posted by Sean Monaghan on Jan 27, 2011, 2:33pm

Thanks Marty, and mmm, that's a delicious picture.

Posted by Chris Bartholomew on Jan 27, 2011, 3:03pm

The cover stays, so I hope that won't deter you from submitting...

Posted by Marty 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.

Posted by Sean Monaghan 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.

Posted by dave fragments 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

Posted by Sean Monaghan on Jan 27, 2011, 9:16pm

Excellent.

Posted by Sean Monaghan on Jan 28, 2011, 2:33pm

Now listed at Ralan
http://www.ralan.com/m.antho-np.php#Dslpnk

and Duotrope
http://www.duotrope.com/market_5498.aspx

Posted by jjablonski on Jan 30, 2011, 10:31am

Fin. I'm sending it out now.

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