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Welcome to ParsecInk.orgWelcome to PARSEC Ink, the publishing wing of PARSEC, Pittsburgh's premier science fiction organization.
If you're interested in our older projects -- Six From PARSEC, Parallax Second Tales, the 2003-2005 editions of Triangulation, or our 2006 calendar -- we refer you to our old page.
Our current project is Triangulation: Dark Glass, the 2009 edition of our annually-produced anthology of short speculative fiction. If you'd like to contribute, please consult our contributors' guidelines. We'll pay you! With actual money! As with prior editions, Triangulation: Dark Glass will be released to coincide with PARSEC's annual Confluence convention, which will take place the weekend of July 24-26 in 2009.
Our most recent project is Triangulation: Taking Flight, available as a paperback book or downloadable PDF from Lulu.com. Thus far, the reviews have been good.
You can also get yourself a copy of Triangulation: End of Time, also available as a paperback book or downloadable PDF from Lulu. People loved it; check out these reviews.
Pete Butler is Triangulation's senior editor, and also maintains this web page. If you'd like to get a hold of him for something not related to Triangulation story submissions, please use his personal email address, pete@blairhippo.com. For anything related to Triangulation story submissions, he can be contacted at editor@parsecink.org.
Ann Cecil handles the rest of PARSEC Ink, and can be contacted at ann.cecil@gmail.com.
Tuesday, April 28 2009 @ 09:56 PM BST
That's all, folks!
Actually, that's been all. We stopped taking submissions for Dark Glass as of April 1. Just want to get this posted in case anybody finds us looking for markets for their work.
It was a busy year for us; we got close to 500 submissions. Which is actually a slow month for a lot of the big markets, but hey. For us, that was busy.
... which means we had more stories to choose from than we've had in prior years. I'm not just doing the marketing hype thing when I say this year's anthology will probably be our best ever.
Wednesday, January 28 2009 @ 06:11 PM GMT
The Future Fire had some very nice things to say about us last month:
"There are more than enough moving and shocking pieces, however, to reward the patient reader, and I have no hesitation in declaring this volume good value for money." --Djibril Alayad, The Future Fire
Tuesday, December 09 2008 @ 09:37 PM GMT
Triangulation: Dark Glass is now officially open to submissions. Check out our contributor guidelines if you'd like us to consider your work.
Monday, December 08 2008 @ 10:15 PM GMT
Here's what folks have had to say about Triangulation: Taking Flight:
- "... within its pages there is something for everyone who enjoys reading speculative fiction." --Brenton Tomlinson
- "... there’s a very great deal here to be enjoyed and a handful of stories that are genuinely excellent." --Martin McGrath, The Fix
- "Like good wine ... each story deserves to be savoured before going onto the next one. If you don't, there's a tendency for a little blurring, mostly because there isn't a bad story in this collection." --Geoff Willmetts, SFCrowsnest.com
- "... there should be something here for just about everybody." (8/10 rating) --Charles Packer, Sci-FI Online
- "Editor Pete Butler and the team at PARSEC Ink have done a commendable job of gathering a wide assortment of enjoyable tales. The tome contains a pleasant mixture of published pros and first-time authors. While the book is worth the asking price, its only drawback is it leaves readers wanting just a little bit more ... maybe twenty-five stories for next year's edition." --Kyle White, The Harrow
Sunday, December 07 2008 @ 04:16 AM GMT
Here's what folks have had to say about Triangulation: End of Time:
- "This whole volume is equal to any typical issue of your favorite prozine, and will reward your investment." --Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's Science Fiction
- "... this collection was an enjoyable read." --Todd Ruthman, Black Gate
- "No two stories are alike; no two authors have approached the theme from the same direction. Well worth a read." --Debbie Moorhouse, GUD Magazone
- "The best thing about Triangulation: End of Time is its breadth. With 20 authors offering up their personal takes on "the end," each story is distinctive, and the whole is well worth a read, especially on a rainy or snowy winter afternoon." --Nicole McClain, The Fix
- "The stories collected in Triangulation: End of Time will help expand your reading horizons, and they will help scratch your very particular, hard-to-reach, highly personal speculative fiction itch. Not bad for $12." --Jeremiah Sturgill, Son and Foe
- "Overall, it’s a good selection of stories. The weaker ones tend to be the shorter ones, so even at its worst, it’s not hard work. And there are around half-a-dozen stories of real quality that stand out." --Jim Steel, Whispers of Wickedness
- "Triangulation: End of Time offers an interesting spectrum of approaches to its theme, combining the work of experienced and relatively new talents and for the first time opening the anthology series to members outside of PARSEC." -- Dru Pagliassotti, The Harrow
- "It would be fair to say that there are stories in here that should please everyone. Those that don't appeal are certainly readable." -- Geoff Willmetts, SFCrowsnest.com
- "The aforementioned stories are the ones picked out for particular praise at a quick re-skim of the volume. The other stories vary from short shorts, to a couple of other substantial stories - mostly pretty fine and dandy, in a volume that gives pretty good value for $12.00 for the deadtree version, and especially good value for $4.00 for the PDF version." --Mark Watson, Best SF Reviews
- "At best some of the stories will stay with you. Though there is a number of old concepts rehashed and some stories are at best competent, overall it's a nicely satisfying read." -- Charles Packer, Sci-Fi Online
- "Edited by Pete Butler this book contains some great stories by some of the most talented people out there today. From Jessica E. Kaiser's ICE AGE to Jeff Parish's THAT AINT A MOSEY, Triangulation is filled with stories that will entertain, repulse and leave you unsettled. All of these authors weave tapestries that will leave any avid reader wanting more." -- Michael Lovell, Magus Press
- "Triangulation: End of Time is a thought-provoking, exhilarating collection of stories hypothesizing how the end of days will come or what it will be like for those left after whatever catastrophe takes place. All of the stories are masterfully written, so much so that I found it difficult to put the book down after ending each selection—even at the end, I wanted more." --Lilith, The Future Fire
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