Flurb

Flurb

Cover of Flurb #7
Web address Flurb
Commercial? No
Type of site
Online Magazine
Owner Rudy Rucker
Created by Various
Launched August 20, 2006
Alexa rank
Negative increase 7,194,916 (April 2014)[1]
Current status Archive

Flurb was a science fiction webzine, edited by noted science fiction author Rudy Rucker. In addition to short stories, Flurb featured paintings and photography by Rucker. It was released biannually. Its model was notable in that the author of an accepted story retains full copyright, including the right to have the story published elsewhere, and to request that it be taken down at any time.

Flurb releases tended to garner significant online attention, with issues having been mentioned in several prominent blogs including Boing Boing and io9.[2][3]

Noted contributors to Flurb included Terry Bisson, John Kessel, Kim Stanley Robinson, Paul Di Filippo, John Shirley, Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow, as well as Rucker himself.

Flurb closed in 2012.

List of Flurb stories

Title Author URL
The Arcades of Allah (Liner Notes for Luchenko's Third Symphony) Richard Kadrey
Billy and the Circus Girl Terry Bisson
Elves of the Subdimensions Rudy Rucker and Paul Di Filippo
Evaluation of the Hannemouth Bequest (Hannemouth Self-Configurable Combinatorial Array) Marc Laidlaw
I, Row-Boat Cory Doctorow
Mystery Customer Kris Saknussem
Provocatourist John Shirley
Strategy for Conflict Avoidance: Memo to the Commander-in-Chief Michael Blumlein
Cul-de-Sac John Shirley
Message in a Time Capsule Charles Stross
One Door Closes Charlie Jane Anders
Open Open Letter Marc Laidlaw
Revolution Time Lavie Tidhar
Singing the Dead to Sleep Richard Kadrey
The Third Bomb Rudy Rucker
Beloved Vampires of the Blood Comet Ian Watson and Roberto Quaglia
An Evening's Honest Peril Marc Laidlaw
Four Milestones of Quantum Tantra Nick Herbert
How RU Sirius Slipped Into Another Dimension RU Sirius (interviewed by Frank Shook)
The Last Young Person Alive Writes a Memoir Charlie Jane Anders
No Place to Raise Kids Eileen Gunn
One Hundred Years Mac Tonnies
Postsingular Outtakes Rudy Rucker
Seized by Meat Th. Metzger
Special Guest Stars Kris Saknussemm
That Certain Day With Magdalen John Shirley
Up Around the Bend Paul Di Filippo
Anxiety Branson, Social Security Hustler Charlie Jane Anders
Downtown John Kessel
The Egan Thief Gord Sellar
A Fifth Noble Truth David Agranoff
Hieronymus Bosch's Apprentice Rudy Rucker
Irene Leaves the Werehouse Gustav Flurbert
Kistenpass Kim Stanley Robinson
Mountain Memory Penelope Thomas
The Vicar of R'lyeh Marc Laidlaw
What Science Fiction is All About, or, The Amazing Dancing Chairs Kathleen Ann Goonan
Black Glass Samples John Shirley
Captain Ordinary Terry Bisson
Cathedrals Alex Hardison
DMV Richard Kadrey
Donald Asshole and Los Elementos de Rock Brendan Byrne
The Masonic Dream Engine Th. Metzger
Tangier Routines Rudy Rucker
Uganda Lavie Tidhar
We're awake, let's talk. Nathaniel Hellerstein
3 SF Poems Brian Garrison
The Big One Michael Blumlein
Computer Entertainment Thirty-Five Years From Today Bruce Sterling
Fitting a New Suit Madeline Ashby
The Gnirut Test Charles Platt
The Loa and the Gaping Jaw Brendan Byrne
Qlone Rudy Rucker
Random Acts of Cosmic Whimsy Jetse de Vries
5 SF Poems Brian Garrison
All Hangy Rudy Rucker and John Shirley
And They Will Not Be Stopped Simon Logan
Billy and the Flying Saucer Terry Bisson
Clouds in the Night Alex Hardison
Cobalt Imperium Kek-w
Growth Industry Adam Rothstein
The History of the Internet Charlie Jane Anders
Initiation Robert Guffey
Off Track Betting Madeline Ashby
The Squonk Hunt Cody Goodfellow
Trembling Blue Stars Richard Kadrey
Bad Ideas Rudy Rucker
Bad Pennies Carter Schloz
The Cog in God's Wheels Peter Hagelslag
Cosmic Samba Brian Landis
Futurized Paul Di Filippo
Henry's Penis Charlie Jane Anders
In The Beginning There Was The Machine Martin Hayes
Interrogations in a Holographic Observatory Howard V. Hendrix
My Only Sunshine Emily C. Skaftun
Paradise Afternoon Gregory Benford
The Retrodictions of Sumadastron the Time-Lost Nathaniel Hellerstein
Songwriter to the Stars Tamara Vining
There Is No Comte de St. Germain For I Am He Brendan Byrne
Three Poems John Roche
Alphabet Island Jessy Randall
Cairo, Good-bye Richard A. Lupoff
Clod, Pebble Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz
DarliJ's House of Tea Mari Mitchell
The Goddess of Discord Lives on Mulberry Street Adam Callaway
Insect Girl Climbs to Paradise Philip Harris
IntheBeginning™ Christopher B. Shay
The Palmetto Man Danny Rubin
Search Kek-w
The Soft Armada Paul Di Filippo
Technical Difficulties Alex Roston
Ticks Robert Guffey
Val and Me Rudy Rucker
Bitters John Shirley
Buried in Time Kathleen Ann Goonan
Deepscreen Marc Laidlaw
Doctora Xilbalba's Datura Enema Ernest Hogan
The End of Mirth Howard V. Hendrix
The Gravity Fetishist Annalee Newitz
The Hidden Neosurrealism of the Early to Mid 21st Century Adam Callaway
Intelligent Design 2.0 Ian Watson
The Paranoid Critical Method Bruce Sterling
A Peculiar Fashion Business Jon Armstrong
Rim Carter Scholz
The Seduction of a Very Special Music Box Kris Saknussemm
Six Days on the Road and I'm Gonna Make it Home Tonight Kek-w
The Skug Rudy Rucker
Sphincter and Sphinx Th. Metzger
Wasps/Spiders Brendan Byrne
Zombies, Condoms and Shenzhen Madeline Ashby
Big Store Baoding Kek-w
Bring Me the Head of André Breton! Robert Guffey
Cold Reading Michael Swanwick
Dispatches from Interzone Rudy Rucker
Fairy Werewolf vs. Vampire Zombie Charlie Jane Anders
The Ghosts of Carnivores Minister Faust
Hotels Alberto Chimal
The Last Apollo Mission Douglas Lain
The Last Hours of the Last Days Bernardo Fernández
Medusa Chris N. Brown
My Big Night Out With Thing Leslie What
Stuff Pepe Rojo
After the Thaw Eileen Gunn
Big Ripples Without a Splash Don Webb
Concerning Tavia Martin Hayes
The Curse of the Were-Penis Emily C. Skaftun
Everything Is Broken John Shirley
Fjaerland Rudy Rucker and Paul Di Filippo
Gertrude and Ludwig Spin A Web Justin Patrick Moore
I Can’t Escape From You Brendan Byrne
The Onset of a Paranormal Romance Bruce Sterling
The Oyster and Alice O. Anna Tambour
Pulped And Bound Monsters Adam Callaway
The Robert Armstrong Syndicated Newspaper Strip A. S. Salinas
Walls Between Worlds Will Ellwood
Xuanito Ernest Hogan

References

  1. "Flurb.net Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. Doctorow, Cory (31 March 2008). "Rudy Rucker's science fiction webzine Flurb #5 is out". Boing Boing. Retrieved 30 July 2008.
  3. Newitz, Annalee (31 March 2008). "New Issue of Rudy Rucker's FLURB Hits the Interwebs". io9. Retrieved 30 July 2008.

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