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Indies are evanescent unless they have copious external funding. They became viable only with desktop publishing apps & ebooks, but remain ephemeral. Yet they act as forges & catalysts, and nourish talent only to get poached by the big houses if one of their authors hits a jackpot.

I can’t believe no one else has mentioned Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show (stopped publishing June 2019, archive still online). Yes he is controversial, but the mag was great!

thank you!

thank you, Maria! 🖤

Bird's Thumb (archive gone) Liminality (archive still available) Twisted Moon (archive gone as far as I can tell)

thank you!

shimmer magazine 🪦

sadly gone: Daily Science Fiction and Shimmer Magazine

I think I've got a full run of 'Fear' magazine from the UK kicking around. Might be eBaying it shortly.

They published my first sales, I'll always think of them fondly. ;)

ah, too bad :(

I think I have printouts of my stuff somewhere. But I didn't archive any of the rest.

Right?? Creeping ever closer

sad :(

Mineral Lit Mag, Perhappened, Collective Realms, Speculate Now

7th-Circle Pyrite is closed and their archive technically still up, but it also seems like their server might be having trouble: www.7thcirclepyrite.com

mermaidsmonthly.com/2021-treasur...

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came here to say this one

I use Internet Archive for a lot of old magazines. Heavy Metal Ellery Queen Mystery Alfred Hitchcock Amazing Stories Analog Science Fantasy Magazine Short Stories Weird Tales Dragon Twilight Zone House of Secrets House of Mystery Search for pulp fiction magazine names and go to... archive.org

I also fondly remember — largely because they were my second pro-rate sale — an ambitious launch by a company called TM Publishing that rolled out four magazines at once: Emerald Sky, Crimson Fog, Burgundy Grove, and Azure Valley, and then collapsed under financial reality.

i remember this one :)

thank you!

Definitely the majority preserve some form of archival website for *years* after closing. And then there are the ones whose websites are instantly taken over by Chinese spam.

But apparently not 2025. Huh.

I also have archival 2021 - 2024 dead markets spreadsheets that I could email you if you like.

My first publisher!

THANK YOU!

Unlikely Story (The Journal of Unlikely [Subject]) is mostly up, though some early links don't work: www.unlikely-story.com/category/unl... Everyday Weirdness is still up: everydayweirdness.com ChiZine is not online as far as I'm aware.

A story from 2018 and ppl still don't realize that self driving is a threat

:( thx!

alas :(

thank you!

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:( thank you tho!

Omni?

thx for this!

SILVER BLADE published my Santa vs. Asgard story "Nick's Last Flight" in 2019. I'd link the story every Xmas, but found the website gone in 2025. CLIFFHANGER! MAGAZINE's website disappeared w/o explanation earlier this year, taking my killer-hogs story "The Devil's Herd" with it.

Still online: mothershipzeta.org www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag....

Labyrinth Inhabitant Magazine: duotrope.com/magazine/lab... Also Goblin Fruit Poetry Zine. Both are defunct.

tysm everyone for your help!! sorry I stopped responding, I came down with COVID-19 for the first time. it's just as much fun as I was led to believe... :(

Lovely old Hearth & Coffin, deceased but all issues still online: www.hearthandcoffin.com

(glum) Daily Science Fiction. Closed, archive no longer online. (from much further back) Farrago's Wainscot. Just did a quick search and....found a bitcoin site. Oh well.