One of the reasons we went on hiatus was because we have other projects going, one of which is opening a new sister publication: Quantum Kiss, A Journal of Romantic Speculative Fiction. You’ll find it over at QuantumKiss.com, and yes, it’s now open for submissions. Go check it out.

With that finally up and running, there’s just one more thing to get out of the way before we resume accepting submissions here, and that’s NaNoWriMo. In case you’ve never heard of National Novel Writing Month, it’s a wild and fun concept where you and thousands of other writers — young and old, beginners and veterans — are challenged to crank out at least 50,000 words in one month.

Since I’m participating this year, that’s why our reading hiatus doesn’t end until after November.

If you’re one of us NaNoWriMo maniacs, here’s wishing you luck! And if not, here’s hoping you come back and join us in December.

Happy Halloween!

Jerry J. Davis
DESF Editor

Our good friend and colleague Gloria Oliver sent us This Article about new cloaking technology that comes right out of Star Trek. Looks like ten years from now we’ll have stealth airplanes that are invisible to radar and to the naked eye. This comes right after news of a breakthrough making Teleportation one step closer to reality. Now if we could only figure out how to tap limitless energy and send ships hurtling faster than light, SF would become common everyday fiction. Or not fiction at all.

Can you imagine Star Trek as a reality show?

Reading science journals nowadays is like reading SF. It’s amazing. We’re living in exciting times. If anything, it’s making SF harder to write, and it’s forcing writers to push their boundaries ever farther out in order to keep their fiction from being overtaken by actual events.

I’ve been wanting to add some interactive features to DESF for quite a while, and this is the first step: A news section (yeah, okay, it’s a blog) where we can post news and happenings quickly, and you can add your feedback, comments, addendums, or whatever else you’d like.

Next I’d like to see about adding context advertising to raise money to help pay our writers. Right now the money comes out of our pockets, which is why we don’t pay anywhere near pro rates — but if we could get this site to generate some income, we’ll be able to sweeten the pot.

Hey, I can dream, right? What do you think? Would the addition of advertising spoil your enjoyment of this site? Would you be willing to click on a few ads that caught your attention in order to help pay for more content?