Magazines

For fanzines, please see the Fanzines page.

General Interest Magazines with SF Content
See the General Interest Magazines page. Note: Only the stories with fantastic story elements are covered in the ISFDB. For more complete coverage of general interest magazines the FictionMags Index is recommended.

Webzines (Online Magazines)
The ISFDB does not normally index online magazines as the index information cannot be guaranteed to be stable. However, the following list of current webzines may be of interest.


 * Aberrant Dreams
 * Abyss & Apex
 * Albedo
 * AlienSkin Magazine
 * Anotherealm
 * Apex Magazine
 * Aphelion
 * Beneath Ceaseless Skies
 * ChiZine
 * Clarkesworld
 * Coyote Wild Magazine
 * Fantasy Magazine
 * The Fix (Short Fiction Review)
 * Flash Fiction Online
 * Flurb
 * Futurismic
 * Golden Visions Magazine
 * Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly
 * Heliotrope
 * Hypersonic Tales
 * ideomancer
 * Infinity Plus
 * Internet Review of Science Fiction
 * Lone Star Stories
 * Oceans of the Mind Archives
 * Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show (October 2005-present)
 * The Pedestal Magazine
 * Reflection's Edge
 * Sci-Fi Wire
 * Science Fiction Weekly merged with Sci-Fi Wire
 * Sci Fiction Archives
 * scifidimensions
 * SF Site
 * Strange Horizons (website)
 * Subterranean Press
 * Tor.com

Link Sites:
 * Speculative Fiction contains numerous links to webzines of interest.
 * Free Speculative Fiction Online contains links by author to currently available non-pirated online stories.

Magazine Timeline
The pages below layout magazines since 1900 in a table format, showing their lifespan relative to other magazines of their era. Each row shows a specific magazine; multiple entries in a row indicate a name change.


 * 1900-1919
 * 1920-1929
 * 1930-1939
 * 1940-1949
 * 1950-1959
 * 1960-1969
 * 1970-1979
 * 1980-1989
 * 1990-1999
 * 2000-2009

Creating a new magazine wiki page

 * 1) Find the proper alphabetical section of the list above.
 * 2) Click the edit link to the right of the section title to edit the section.
 * 3) Add a new line to the table with a link to the magazine series page, using the same format as the existing lines. The link should look something like this:
 * 4) Enter an Edit Summary at the bottom, something like "add Magazine Name"
 * 5) Click "Save page"
 * 6) When the edited page displays, find the newly entered link. It will be red indicating that the page does not yet exist.
 * 7) Click on the new red link. You will be taken to a page with the title "Editing Series:Magazine Name'".
 * 8) In the edit box copy the text below:
 * 9) Save the page. This will place a copy of Template:Magazine and the Series Header onto your new page. This is a standard skeleton for magazine wiki pages.
 * 10) Edit the page. Fill in the blank areas in the skeleton, as possible. Add any relevant notes or information. Save the page.
 * Note that the issues table, if you are filling it in, should have the most recent year at the top.
 * 1) You have created a basic wiki page for the newly entered magazine.
 * 1) Save the page. This will place a copy of Template:Magazine and the Series Header onto your new page. This is a standard skeleton for magazine wiki pages.
 * 2) Edit the page. Fill in the blank areas in the skeleton, as possible. Add any relevant notes or information. Save the page.
 * Note that the issues table, if you are filling it in, should have the most recent year at the top.
 * 1) You have created a basic wiki page for the newly entered magazine.
 * 1) You have created a basic wiki page for the newly entered magazine.