The Future Fire is a small press, online

Online magazine

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 science fiction magazine

Science fiction magazine

A science fiction magazine is a publication that offers primarily science fiction, either in a hard copy periodical format or on the Internet....

 (ISSN: 1746-1839), run by a joint British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

-US

United States

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 team of editors. The magazine was launched in January 2005 and releases issues four times a year, with stories, articles, and reviews in both HTML

HTML

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 and PDF formats. At times (notably 2006-7) issues appeared more sporadically than this.

Contents

The Future fire publishes both fiction and nonfiction. For fiction it publishes Speculative Fiction

Speculative fiction

Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as...

, Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a postmodern and science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk, and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983...

 and Dark Fantasy

Dark fantasy

Dark fantasy is a term used to describe a fantasy story with a pronounced horror element.-Overview:A strict definition for dark fantasy is difficult to pin down. Gertrude Barrows Bennett has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". Both Charles L...

, with a focus on social and political themes and Mundane rather than hard SF

Hard science fiction

Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both. The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell, Jr.'s Islands of Space in Astounding Science...

. In the area of nonfiction it publishes reviews and interviews with such as Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books...

, author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow...

, and Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom...

 the Cyborg

Cyborg

A cyborg is a being with both biological and artificial parts. The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space. D. S...

 scientist, articles on new media

New media

New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community...

, posthumanism

Posthumanism

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, and artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

. In 2010 The Future Fire published themed issues on Feminist science fiction

Feminist science fiction

Feminist science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction which tends to deal with women's roles in society. Feminist science fiction poses questions about social issues such as how society constructs gender roles, the role reproduction plays in defining gender and the unequal political and...

 and Queer science fiction.

The Future Fire has published stories by:

• Neil Ayres
  Neil Ayres
  Neil George Ayres is an English short fiction writer, born in east London in 1979. He grew up in Tower Hamlets, Essex and Spain.His fiction includes the literary novel, Nicolo's Gifts, and short speculative fiction published in many international small and independent press publications, including...
  
  
• Terry Grimwood
  Terry Grimwood
  Terry Grimwood is a British writer of horror and science fiction. He publishes The Exaggerated Press. He has written and directed three plays, and is married to the poet Jessica Lawrence.-Books:...
  
  
• Steven Pirie
  Steven Pirie
  Steven Pirie is an English writer of horror, fantasy and humour based in Liverpool.-Novels:* Digging up Donald * Burying Brian -Short stories:...
  
  
• Brett Alexander Savory
  Brett Alexander Savory
  Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning editor-in-chief of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, Co-Publisher of ChiZine Publications, has had over 50 short stories published, and written two novels....
  
  
• Richard Thieme
  Richard Thieme
  Richard Thieme , is a noted business consultant, author, media commentator and speaker.-Biography:Richard Thieme was born in Chicago. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1965 with a B.A. in English literature. He later earned a M.A. in English at the University of Chicago, where he...
  
  
• Lynda Williams
  Lynda Williams
  Lynda Williams is a science fiction author and blogger.Williams' fiction is centered around a series of ten novels set in the fictional Okal Rel Universe and published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing...
  
  

The Future Fire has run occasional writers' conventions and competitions, including a flash fiction contest sponsored by the MirrorMask

MirrorMask

Mirrormask is a 2005 fantasy film from Jim Henson Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Films, and Destination Films. It stars Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, and Gina McKee. It is designed and directed by Dave McKean, written by Neil Gaiman from a story they developed together...

 movie, and a satirical writing contest based on spam subject lines judged by Peter Tennant

Peter Tennant

Peter Tennant is a prolific writer of horror, fantasy and speculative fiction, and award-winning columnist and reviewer for Black Static magazine...

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External links

• Original site
• Review of Future Fire 8 in Whispers of Wickedness (site down: Wayback Machine version)
• Interview with TFF editor in MBR:Points (site down)
• Review of Future Fire 20
• Spotlight on The Future Fire by The Outer Alliance
• Interview with TFF editor in Duotrope's Digest.
• Interview with editor in The Apprentice Storyteller