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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
If you're into shorter science fiction, Lightspeed's People of Colour Destroy Science Fiction (and fantasy and horror) kickstarter campaign ends in 7 hours. It's about $600 from its final stretch goal, and some of the backer options include a year's subscription to either Lightspeed or Nightmare magazine plus all the back issues. |
All the yearly sub levels include the back issues, so the $24 level for a year of Nightmare and $36 for a year of Lightspeed. If you have all the Lightspeed back issues they'll give you all the back issues of Fantasy instead. And if you have both of those, they'll give you the back issues of Nightmare. (Someone asked this in the comments and the reply said they could do that.)
If you've never backed one of the Destroy Kickstarters before, you can get 73 back issues of Lightspeed + another 12 issues + POC Destroy Fantasy + POC Destroy Horror + the JJA POC Sampler. If they hit $50k before the Kickstarter ends, the JJA POC Sampler will be boosted to a full anthology volume. (Right now they're less than $500 from reaching that goal.)
It's a very good deal for first-time backers, and even for second-time backers (since they get 59 back issues of Fantasy). Not quite as good a deal for third-time backers, but I backed at the $36 level to keep supporting them. Was planning to get another year of Lightspeed anyway.
BTW, they have announced what the Destroy Kickstarter will be next year: People with Disabilities Destroy Science Fiction. Also, they're handing it off to Uncanny Magazine, so hopefully there'll be back-issue boosters of the new magazine next year. (Although it looks like that'll be just 20 issues max a year from now.)
