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looks like 'fun'!

Gonna conspire with the parasite and see if it is something worthy of submitting...However, knowing that '(censored), it will just eat all the chips and dip leaving the heavy stuff to me.
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Here is another of my previous post I recovered from the archives... :D

Dear Authors,

For Your knowledge, in case You are interested…


Call for Sci-Fi/Horror Submissions


Here’s the link:

http://www.schlock.co.uk/pb/wp_c890c279 ... 0c279.html

"XENOBIOLOGY – STRANGER CREATURES"- A Sci-Fi/Horror Anthology

Deadline: until full
Payment:Exposure and Royalties
Short stories up to 7,000 words; Longer stories will also be considered.
Reprints: just in some restricted, limited cases, as long as you hold the rights.


Xenobiology: the study of synthesizing and manipulating biological devices and systems. From the Greek word xenos, which means "stranger", it indicates a form of biology that is not (yet) familiar to science and is not usually available in nature. It may also indicate biological systems and biochemistries that differ from the DNA system we all know.

Xenobiologists: scientists that aim at the detection or design of forms of life with a different biochemistry or different genetic code than on planet Earth.

Think, for example, of:

“Cryptoterrestrials spotted here or on other planets, Xeno-Humans, or Xenoids that willingly underwent significant genetic changes to be more similar to the models of lifeforms they had on their mind, Half-Human/Half-Alien intelligent beings built for bloody actions, Hybrids that were made up with genetic materials - in part from Earth and in part from other worlds…- with very different genetic codes purposely re-written, unbelievable Cryptids that are just a product of a directed evolution or come from a secret process meant for engineering the environment, Cybrids that are partly humans and in a small part mixed with alien machines with xeno nucleic acids (XNA) and some alternative forms of DNA, or just the opposite, Bioarmor made for wars in space, and cells that have been constructed to include one or more of men’s features along with traits from alien animals. And were they born by chance or were there constraints that ruled out other types of chemistries we know here on Earth? What about these new biological systems that we supposed not to be present on our planet, but that might be a reality, though unexplainably? Is this still unknown biotechnology a possible threat to human health? Or to the health of hidden alien creatures that live somewhere, unbeknownst to all the people…?”



Submission guidelines: Please include your name, address, e-mail address, the title of your story and its word count in your covering e-mail. Please submit your manuscript as a *.rtf or *.doc file (all other formats will automatically be rejected. Contact us prior to submitting if this presents an issue for you.)

Font and formatting: Please submit in Times New Roman, 12 point font; single line spacing. Please format the document to 1st line indentation of 1″. The page margin should be set to .1″ on all sides.

No headers, footers or page numbers.

Please check grammar.

Upon acceptance into the Anthology, we ask that Horrified Press holds exclusive publishing rights for one year from the date of publication; after that date has passed, all intellectual property rights revert to the author with the proviso that Horrified Press retains distribution rights in the format of the contracted Anthology.

This title will be available as an e-book and trade quality paperback.

Michele “bottomdweller” DUTCHER, as main Editor and Sergio “ente per ente” PALUMBO, as co-editor, will be presiding over this Anthology.

The title will be published by Rogue Planet Press, an Imprint of Horrified Press, under the supervision of Gavin CHAPPELL.

Email your submission as an attachment to: associazione (AT) lacenturia.it

The email subject line must read “SUBMISSION— XENOBIOLOGY – STRANGER CREATURES – ‘your story title’” or your submission will not be considered for this Anthology.

Successful applicants will be notified before the deadline has expired, or as soon as possible.

Cover ( and Back-cover) Art: by American artist John “DavidsonHero” Rose.

There may well be some beautiful Sci-Fi/Horror themed black and white illustrations lurking on the inside as well, art by comics artists Davide “Atog” MARESCOTTI and Sara DELLACASA.

Waiting for Your best-ever-entries, of course!!!
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Re: Call for Submissions - "XENOBIOLOGY – STRANGER CREATURES

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“Xenobiology – Stranger Creatures” – Anthology; is out now!!!


For anyone interested, and if You like some Sci-Fi or Fantasy/Horror Xenobiological-themed short-stories, or something like that, this post just to let You all know that the book titled “Xenobiology – Stranger Creatures” – Anthology, published by Rogue Planet Press, an imprint of British Horrified Press, is out now on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk shop, edited by Mrs. Michele DUTCHER, Mr. Gavin CHAPPELL and myself !!!

The cover and the back-cover are by American author/designer John DavidsonHero" Rose!!!

And the drawings/artwork inside (one per story...) are by these great comics designers/artists/authors:

Sara DELLA CASA, Davide ‘Atog’ MARESCOTTI, Rossana BERRETTA and Richard TORNELLO!!!

Here are the links, the cover and the back-cover:

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https://www.amazon.com/Xenobiology-Crea ... oks&sr=1-1


https://horrifiedpress.wordpress.com/ro ... net-press/


Dedicated to Rachele “Lina” ZUCCHELLA/BASCHIERA

Dear kin, tireless and unyielding worker, and the “queen” of the best hand-made fruit in heavy syrup and marmalades ever tasted in my life who will be greatly missed



Dedicated to Ivan BERTAZZONI

Dear friend, and the most experienced player of Cthulhu/Mythos games I ever met, other than a great fan of everything ever made or published about Star Trek™ and Star Wars™


Foreword by Michele "Bottomdweller" Dutcher ( and myself...)


Here is the Full Table of Contents and the name of the authors:


Merge by Joe Jablonski

Zoomania by Carlton Herzog

Chimerals by Lena Ng

Xenoids by Sergio 'ente per ente' PALUMBO and Ernesto CANEPA (edited by Michele DUTCHER)

The Scionites by E. W. Farnsworth

Echoes on the Trestle by Michele Dutcher

A Technical Singularity – To Protect and Serve by Richard Tornello

Golden Whispers by Robin B Lipinski

Guardians by Carlton Herzog

Ratites Delight by E. W. Farnsworth

Space War Veterans by Sergio 'ente per ente' PALUMBO (edited by Michele DUTCHER)

Deputy Hawkins Unsettling Vision by E. W. Farnsworth

A Child is Borne by Richard Tornello

Return of the Scionite by E. W. Farnsworth

Starfish by Michele Dutcher

Jangled Memes by E. W. Farnsworth

Little Miss Christianá by Ste Whitehouse

War’s End by G C Schmidt

Memnon's Spitting Image by E. W. Farnsworth

Xeno-exo-transplants by Sergio ‘ente per ente’ PALUMBO and Ivan ‘BearOld’ BERTAZZONI (edited by Michele DUTCHER)

The Quantum Puppeteers by Carlton Herzog

The Star God by John David Rose

The Cicada Killer by John Andrew Karr

The Purifiers by Sergio ‘ente per ente’ PALUMBO and Alessandro ‘AleckMcroy’ LOI (edited by Michele DUTCHER)

The Nuclei by Jim Mountfield

The beast of Exmoor by Kevin L. O'Brien



Here is a link to the site of one of the artists, Rosanna BERRETTA, whose drawings appear in the Anthology:

http://rossanaberretta.altervista.org/gallery.html
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