The Professionals - Zine, Author and Story Listings, Reviews and Recommendations

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14th November 2008 - see Site Updates page

Most Recently...
12th October - Been talking about AU Science Fiction Pros lately, so I thought I'd have a list over here this month! Some of the stories already have links/recs, others I'll try and read and review now! (Oh, the hardship...)

28th September - I'm feeling organise-y, so thought we might have some links to Pros lists as well as some recs this time around - two from the ever-growing lists at Livejournal CI5hq and one from the fabulous collection of lists at The Hatstand. There are lots of lists there, but I thought I'd start with Older Lads Prosfic to celebrate the fact that I actually saw someone with a TOG sticker today! And if you're not sure what that is, then scroll down the list until you come to Lizzie's little fic - With Age Comes A TOG Sticker, which I adore!

Meanwhile, there's a new archive for Pros fic - The Automated Hatstand, where Pros fic can be archived directly by authors (so it's really more a sort of Mechanical Hatstand!). It's great to have somewhere that more recent fic can be quickly archived - so thank you to Hatstander for thinking of it, and I hope lots of authors will join and archive! It has a random story facility, as well as places for reviews, favourites, top-tens - it's really all-singing and dancing...

Science Fiction in Pros!
After the Fire - Cat Shannon
Aquamarine
Bodie's Luck - Stew
Breath of Eochaidh Oll-Athair
Bronze Metal Lover - Stew
The Constant Tin Soldier
The Cook and the Warehouseman - Helen Raven
Detect in the Future Tense
Echo and Broadcast Difficulties- Ellis Ward
Echoes of Remembrance
Fear of Immortality
Free Trader - Debra Hicks
Heat - Lainie Stone
Hostage to Peace - Wally
Out of This World
The Price to Pay
Rebels and Mercs
Right Here, Right Now
The Same River - Helen Raven
Showfolk
The Silence of Knives - Jane
Suitable Gravity - DVS
Vortex
The Wounded and the Outcast

If you've any recommendations for the list then do email me at loiteringpalely at googlemail dot com!

Please note: I have compiled my information as directly as I possibly could - from the zines themselves, the distributors, and from information passed on by ever-generous Pros fans. If there are any mistakes, they are quite likely to be entirely my fault, and I'd be grateful if they were pointed out. If authors, or anybody else mentioned on the site would prefer not to be included then please accept my apologies and let me know. I can be contacted by email to loiteringpalely at googlemail dot com. Contributions and offers of content, and other feedback are also always welcome!

Additionally, much of this site links to "slash" fiction - that is stories that may involve sexually explicit male/male relationships. Please be aware of this, and of your legal rights and responsibilities according to your age in accessing such material.