HELIX is proud to announce that of the eight poems we published in 2006, fully half have been honored with a Rhysling nomination. Our nominees are Mike Allen for "Manifest Density," William Sanders for "The Last Madman" (both from HELIX 2), JoSelle Vanderhooft for "Pluto Contemplates His Next Career" and Lawrence Schimel for "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Hole" (both from HELIX 3).

The Rhysling Award is given annually by the Science Fiction Poetry Association in two categories, long and short, and has been won in the past by Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. LeGuin, Michael Bishop and Joe Haldeman.

HELIX congratulates our nominated poets and wishes them the very best of luck.

03/15/2007

Lawrence Watt-Evans pioneered the idea of the reader-supported online serial novel in 2005 with The Spriggan Mirror, which was published in trade paperback by Wildside Press in January 2007. He has not abandoned traditional publishing, by any means; Tor released the first volume of The Annals of the Chosen, The Wizard Lord, in March 2006, and Volume Two, The Ninth Talisman, will be out in May 2007. Other attempts to pry your money away from you are detailed on his website, The Misenchanted Page.

02/17/2007

Helix is proud to announce that "Mahmoud's Wives," by Janis Ian, appearing in Helix #1, has qualified for the Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Award. Congratulations, Janis!

This is the first Helix story to be longlisted for this prestigious award. We're hoping it won't be the last.

09/25/2006

In response to a number of inquiries: no, there are no plans for a downloadable version of Helix. Even if we wanted to do that, we couldn't, because we do not own the download rights to the stories. We buy online rights only.

08/05/2006

We have learned that according to the rules of the World Science Fiction Convention, in order to be considered a semiprozine, we must among other things announce ourselves to be a semiprozine.

Therefore be it known to all and sundry — and mondry too, for that matter — that Helix is a semiprozine; amen, so mote it be.

07/28/2006

Doranna Durgin is absolutely bursting with shameless self-promotion. With a hardcover mystery out at the beginning of the year (it's got a dog on the cover, so how could you resist?), Survival Instinct bursting out from its April release and COMEBACK about to appear in August, there hardly seems room to mention Blue Hound Visions, an active web site design/hosting business that's kept her artistic half happy for the past ten years and is now taking new clients. But she's going to do it anyway.

07/01/2006