As of February 1, 2007, the Odyssey Writing Workshop is offering free podcasts on its website, www.odysseyworkshop.org. Odyssey is an intensive, six-week workshop for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror whose work is approaching publication quality. The workshop is held each summer in Manchester, New Hampshire. The podcasts are excerpts from lectures given by ...

To the editor(s) of Planet Magazine: I am the editor of the new online science fiction magazine Atomjack, and I’m pleased to announce that Atomjack has just published its first issue, with short stories by Rick Novy, Bruce Boston, Cameron Pierce, Thomas Canfield, and Robert Laughlin. The site was created by the Rev. Brian Worley, ...

Dear Editor: A link to Galacticsurf, the portal to the stars, is present on one of your web pages: http://www.etext.org/Zines/planet/pm33/pm33edit.html. Thank you very much for that. Galacticsurf has changed its URL. It used to be http://www.galacticsurf.com/ but is now http://www.galacticsurf.net/. Best Regards, Edouard Galacticsurf.net Webmaster galactic@galacticsurf.net

Dear Editor: My first book, “Humanity’s Edge”, will be available through amazon.com this December. The book is a collection of 13 classic science fiction short stories with a libertarian worldview. If your readers liked my other stories in Planet, I think they’ll like this book too.

Dear Editor: I’ve just added your great site to my links section, amazed I haven’t come across you before. I run a site for readers and writers of alternative fiction called Authoretica.com. Kind Regards, Marcus

Dear Editor: Your readers may remember my story “Searching for the Ferryman”, published in Planet last year. “Ferryman”, together with all of my other previously published short stories, have been gathered into a collection titled Retribution and other Reactions. In addition, several new stories were written especially for the collection. It is available from Equilibrium ...