HOZ Journal Now Scheduled for “01012020” Debut

That’s the way they put it, and part of the reason for choosing that date — New Year’s Day 2020 — is simply that it looks so cool.  Though starting a brand new publication at the start of a new year as well as decade seemed appropriate as well.  The publication’s full name is the HOUSE OF ZOLO JOURNAL OF SPECULATIVE LITERATURE, VOLUME 1 (cf. October 7, September 17), for which HOZ are looking for literature that explores possibilities for the future.  We want challenging short stories that are character driven, that reima[image error]gine the world and our place in it.  . . .  Themes that thrill us:  transhumanism, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, new systems, resistance, activism, queer perspectives, feminist perspectives, nature.  Originally planned for a release this month, they decided to give it a bit more time, with January 1 2020 now the official release date.

My story in this is “Golden Age,” a tale of surgical life prolonging procedures that lead to a possible near-immortality, originally published in MINDSPARKS in Spring 1994 and also reprinted in Smart Rhino Publications’s 2017 ZIPPERED FLESH 3 anthology.  And for a sort of a preview about this first issue, or at least its authors, one can press here for a list of bios with further links to blogs and personal websites, Facebook pages, etc.