Nature: Futures
FICTION: Futures is the award-winning science-fiction section of Nature. Contributions are usually commissioned, but unsolicited articles are welcome. Each Future should be an entirely fictional, self-contained story, and the genre should, broadly speaking, be 'hard' (that is, 'scientific' SF) rather than, say, outright fantasy, slipstream or horror.
Market Genres, Styles & Subjects
Genres
LiteraryScience Fiction
Market Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
Flash
850 to 950 words
11 cents/word
Market Submission Types
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Reprints?: No
Multiple Submissions?: No
Simultaneous Submissions?: No
Postal Submissions?: No
Reprints?: No
Multiple Submissions?: No
Simultaneous Submissions?: No
Market Response Data
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Accuracy:
There are 110 completed reports in the past 12 months.
Averages and Boundaries:
2 min | 88.21 mean avg | 81 median | 282 max days
Responded:
99.09%
Accepted:
21.81% - avg 65 days
Rejected:
77.27% - avg 94 days
(34.11% of rejections are personal)
Rewrites:
-
Dead Letters:
0.90%
Lost/Returned:
-
Never Responded:
0.90%
Withdrawn:
-
Pending:
25 pending responses (8 min | 76 mean avg | 58 median | 351 max days waiting)
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