John Scalzi Helps Strange Horizons by Matching Donations

It always amazes me the power some people can leverage with the internet, so when I saw this story on John Scalzi’s Whatever blog I knew I had to write a post on it. This month (August 2009) Strange Horizons, the monthly online magazine which publishes speculative short stories, poetry, and articles, was holding its annual drive with the intention of raising US$7000 for its annual fund drive.

Scalzi, writer of such works as Old Man’s War and recent Hugo-winning book ‘Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever‘, wrote a post on his blog announcing that he would match whatever donations were made in the 27-hour period of August 14, 2009 up to $500, an additional 3 hours was tacked on for the time difference. At that point the donations were roughly $1565. However, largely in part to Scalzi’s intervention, Strange Horizons not only met its donation target but as of August 15th surpassed its previous amount to $9590 once all of the math was done. As of today (August 19) that total is $13,075.

“We’re going to keep the fund drive going through the end of the month, though. These fund drives aren’t just about money, they’re also about our community, and I know that there are probably people out there who still want to be a part of this effort but haven’t gotten around to it yet,” said Susan Marie Groppi , Editor in Chief of Strange Horizons.

Here’s an article in the LA Times discussing the event.

If you would like to make a donation to Strange Horizons click here to do so.