Here at Strange Horizons, we consider our readers to be an important part of the magazine. Every week for three and a half years, we've brought you some of the best speculative fiction and non-fiction available anywhere. We're proud to have been the first professional fiction sale for many of our contributors, and we're passionate about publishing diverse and innovative voices from writers both new and established. Everything we do, though, depends on the participation of you, our readers, to keep the magazine running.

In our Spring 2004 Fund Drive, we're hoping to raise $2000, which is just under fifteen percent of our annual budget. If you donate $25 or more, you become a Strange Horizons reader-member, which entitles you to an illustrated collectible membership card and a discount on the Best of Strange Horizons anthologies. (Larger gift packages are available at larger donation levels--details below.) We welcome donations at any amount you feel comfortable with, however, and every single person who donates to Strange Horizons this month has a chance to win one of our special prizes. These prizes have all been donated by Strange Horizons contributors and staff members as a way of thanking you for your support of our publication.

Donating to Strange Horizons is easy. Just click the link below to donate through PayPal.

Or send a check or money order to our post office address:

Strange Horizons, Inc.
P O Box 1693
Dubuque, IA 52004-1693

Thank you for your contribution to the exciting, sometimes unnerving, and always important field of speculative fiction.

Tax-exemption: Contributions to Strange Horizons are now tax-deductible. Strange Horizons has received provisional 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Donations made during 2003 and 2004 are tax-deductible. Additionally, donations made during 2000, 2001, and 2002 may also be claimed; if you donated more than $250 to us during those years, please contact our managing editor, Brian Peters, for a copy of the necessary documentation to support your IRS claim.

Membership Levels

$25 -- Basic Member

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  Strange Horizons Member Card. A wallet-sized laminated card featuring original artwork by Hugo-nominated artist Frank Wu. This is your last chance to get this card design, since we'll have a new one next fall!

• Discount on the Best of Strange Horizons anthologies. Strange Horizons, in conjunction with Lethe Press, is producing a series of anthologies highlighting selections of articles, fiction, reviews, and poetry published in the magazine. The first in the series, featuring material published between September 2000 and August 2001, is available for ordering now; the second, featuring material published between September 2001 and December 2002, will be available later this spring. Strange Horizons members receive a 20% discount off the cover price when they order through Lethe Press!

$50 -- Premium Member

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  Strange Horizons Member Card

• Discount on the Strange Horizons anthologies

• Your choice of a Strange Horizons logo coffee mug or t-shirt -- these exclusive items are not available for sale.

$100 -- The Small Press Package

While we're proud to be publishing some of the most exciting new voices in the field, it's important to mention that we're not the only place you can find these voices. There's been something of an explosion in small-press and independent publishing in recent years, and we're delighted to be able to showcase some of these publications in our Small Press Package.

• Strange Horizons Member Card

• Discount on Strange Horizons: Year One

• Strange Horizons logo coffee mug and t-shirt

• A set of five zines and chapbooks, generously donated by their respective presses, chosen for you by our staff. Publications we'll be selecting from include: Flytrap (published by Tropism Press), edited by Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt; Intracities (published by Unwrecked Press), edited by Michael Jasper; Rabid Transit and Rabid Transit: A Mischief of Rats (published by Velocity Press); a selection of publications from Small Beer Press; Full Unit Hookup (published by Conical Hats Press), edited by Mark Rudolph; Say... (published by the Fortress of Words), edited by Christopher Rowe, Alan DeNiro, and Gwenda Bond; and other assorted gems of the small-press publishing world.

$250 -- The Portable Tea Party

For the last three years, Strange Horizons staff members have held extremely well-attended tea parties at many of the major conventions in the United States, often in conjunction with other publications and publishers. If you donate at this level, you'll be able to throw your own personal Strange Horizons tea party. (Party guests not included.)

• Strange Horizons Member Card

• Discount on Strange Horizons: Year One

• One Strange Horizons t-shirt

• Two Strange Horizons tea mugs

• A set of seven zines and chapbooks

• Tea and cookies for 10, including Mary Anne's personal recipes for cucumber sandwiches and cranberry scones

$500 -- Friends and Family

It was difficult for us to come up with appropriate thank-you gifts for those of you who help us out by donating at this level; it's such a good thing you're doing for us, so we want to do something really good for you in return. At this level, you get everything included in the Portable Tea Party package, but you also get a hand-knit scarf made by our Editor-in-Chief. A cozy, attractive, and highly functional addition to any Strange Horizons member's wardrobe. As an added bonus, you get to choose the colors. (Note: Due to the time required to knit the scarf, the rest of the package will be sent to you separately, and the scarf might take a while. But it'll be great once it gets there.)