News: Enter to Win a Free Copy of Sporty Spec!

To celebrate our new website design, Raven Electrick Ink is giving away a free copy of the trade paperback anthology Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic. How do you enter for a chance to win? Here's the fine print:

Official rules

1. Open to U. S. residents only. (Sporty Spec contributors are, yes, ARE eligible.) Void where prohibited by law. No purchase necessary.
2. Send an e-mail to Comments@ravenelectrick.com with the code "WINSPORTY" in the subject line. Include your name and postal mail address in the body of the e-mail.
3. Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. PDT on September 30, 2009.
4. One entry per person.
5. The odds of winning depend on the number of entries received. The winner will be chosen by lot from all the entries received.
6. The winner will be notified via e-mail between October 1 and 15, 2009.

Cinema Spec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy views moving pictures in all their forms, real and imaginary, from shadow plays to classic films, from videocassettes to animated tattoos. 32 authors have contributed flash fiction, short stories, and poetry to the anthology, transporting readers back to a time when flames flickered and paintings waltzed on cave walls, and forward to possible futures when the heavens themselves might serve as vidscreens. Along the way, the anthology makes multiple stops in Hollywood, the one we know and the one that could never exist, from 30s noir to extraterrestrial infiltration, from a magical "gangland" to destruction after "the big one." Contributors include Greg Beatty, Ruth Berman, Robert Borski, Justin Howe, Vylar Kaftan, Deborah P Kolodji, Simon Logan, Lisa Morton, Gregory L. Norris, Tony Pi, and many others. Cinema Spec will be published in trade paperback with the release date set for September 1, 2009.

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Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic views sports and games with a speculative twist, in prophesied futures, parallel presents, and imagined pasts. From tennis matches with Death to chess games with Oberon, from free throws with the Fairy Court to surfing with werewolves, every sport imaginable (and a few unimaginable) exist within this speculative city of games. 42 authors, veterans and rookies alike, have contributed flash fiction and poetry that will take you from pong with a dust mote at the beginning of the world to sailboarding through the stars at the universe's edge. Contributors include: Paul Abbamondi, Marge Simon, Robert Frazier, E. C. Myers, C. A. Gardner, James S. Dorr, Todd Wheeler, Deborah P Kolodji, Jude-Marie Green, Samantha Henderson, Roger Dutcher, Ruth Berman, Lawrence Schimel, Larry Hodges, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Rob Rosen, Andrew C. Ferguson, and 25 more. Sports & games covered: baseball, football, soccer, horseracing, figure skating, golf, cricket, Monopoly, bridge, and others.

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Raven Electrick e-zine published fiction and poetry in the fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery genres from March 2000 to May 2009. Raven Electrick had eclectic tastes, with subgenres ranging from "cyberpunk" to "cozy" sleuth, sword and sorcery to hardboiled "noir," space opera to vampire yarn, and anything in between. Over 100 authors contributed to the e-zine, including Michael Arnzen, Greg Beatty, Bruce Boston, Samantha Henderson, Charlee Jacob, Vylar Kaftan, Deborah P. Kolodji, Mark Rich, John Schoffstall, and Marge Simon. In a review of Raven Electrick, SFReader.com said,"The Editorial Alchemists here mingle Ancient and modern tales, twining the Primal to the technological, the ordinary to the Mysterious, in a way that can only be described as indelibly unique.... An outstanding site."

Ravenelectrick.com is retaining the free fiction and poetry from Raven Electrick e-zine in its original format. Please visit the fiction and poetry archives.