Infinity Wanderers is a n magazine dedicated to promoting alternate history and the associated genres of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Historical Fiction and Fantasy. In addition we aim for between 1/3 and 1/2 real history, genealogy and biography, and writers of Historical features are welcome to submit.
Whilst considered part of the Scimitar Edge stable, Infinity Wanderers goes out under the self-publishing 'Selornia' marque as a magazine, and not a book.
Issue 11, the Christmas/New Year Special for Winter 2024/2025 is the new edition of the magazine, and is now available in all formats. Please have a look at the fundraiser, as personal circumstances of the publisher/editor are now dire, and any support to keep going would be gratefully received.
The Terms and Conditions and Submission Guidelines are below. Click here to view the current issue.
Submissions Criteria
Infinity Wanderers prefers submissions that meet the following criteria:-
- Flash fiction or short stories on the theme of alternate history or associated genres
- art work, poetry and miscellany with an alternate history theme
- Book features and promotions in the genre
- Reviews of books, films and television programmes in the genre, whether new or classic
- Interviews with authors or artists in the genre
- Press releases about books in the genre are welcome from authors or their publishers
- Where possible, please include a small biography and any social media links for all submissions, and for artistic works a blurb about the art piece
Please meet the following physical requirements
- Written in a free-flowing textual format (docx, doc, rtf, odt etc.). Please do not send us PDFs, or articles saved in Pages format. PDFs are not free-flowing and require heavy editing to remove the line breaks. Pages for Mac can save the document in rtf format, so if relevant, please use this.
- Generally a word count of 1000 to 3000 words, though this is flexible and there is potential to serialise longer articles over more than one issue
- We prefer attachments, although poems or articles within the email body can be accepted, at our discretion
- Unless there is an artistic reason for using a dramatic font, we prefer single-spaced 12 point Times New Roman; all submissions will be changed into this unless there is a specific request not to.
The magazine covers below link through to full page features about each issue of Infinity Wanderers.
Edited by Grey Wolf
Infinity Wanderers 11 is the Winter 2024/2025 issue of the magazine, featuring a topical festive cover by Robin Stacey. The magazine reviews the book "The Governess of Greenmere" by Paul Leone, and this is followed by an article from its author on how he came to write it. Corina Apostu introduces us to her forthcoming novel "White Bear, Red Rose" set in an alternate Elizabethan England.
Travel features are A Glimpse of Paradise by the late Brian G. Davies, detailing a holiday to North West Devon, and a Pembrokeshire Farm Holiday from 1980. Fiction is from Matthew Spence, Nicholas Woods, Matias Travieso-Diaz, Evan Hay, and Rick Barooah. Drew Concord's "Good Enough" begins serialisation over 2 issues, with Part One.
Poetry comes from Pavel Markiewicz, Ben Mcnair, Grey Wolf, Ruth E. Thomas, Gary Beck, and Ali Ashhar. The art feature is from Davyd Meyrick Griffiths, who contributed the cover for issue 9 of this magazine, whilst Grey Wolf sneaks a drawing into the publication - if you can find it!
Regular columnist Larry Parker rounds the magazine off with his non-fiction article "Arming Our Enemies - An American Tradition", and his narrative piece "Hannibal Ad Portas".
Edited by Grey Wolf
Infinity Wanderers 10 is the Summer 2024 issue of the magazine, celebrating the publication breaking into double figures in the numbers of editions that have been published. The cover is a special feature from Allister Nelson.
The lead story is Slow and Low by Katie Holloway. Other stories include The Wheel of Time by Susan Dean, The Gold Line Express by Matthew Spence, Bob's Full House by E.F. Hay, The Calling by William Quincy Belle, The Soldier and the Dragon by Julius Fish, If Else by Rebekah Sicari, Take My Place by Nicholas Woods, The Ministry of Thought by Jaden Cohen, and Pale Green Eyes by Elwyn V.J. Roth.
The travel feature is a look at a holiday in the Ironbridge Gorge region from 1986. History comes from Jon N. Davies with the second part of the life of Richard Douglas Gough (1797-1886), squire of Ynyscedwyn in Breconshire. L. G. Parker provides his usual fantastic feature with "Words and War", along with a fictional piece, Kalinin.
Poetry comes from Brian G. Davies and Katarina Pavicic-Ivelja, and Grey Wolf's serialised story The Wounded Eagle reaches Chapters 3 and 4. The magazine reviews 'Napoleon in America'. an alternate history book by Shannon Selin, and 'Parked In' by L.C. Lupus.
Grey Wolf is the editor of Infinity Wanderers magazine. Below are a link to a couple of his forthcoming novels, published by Scimitar Edge. His website is at
www.greywolfauthor.com
Alternate History
The second novel in The Shifting Sands series picks up the story as Lord Wolfe and Carlotta head for Seoul in the Kingdom of Korea. Travelling across the Pacific, they traverse the vast British North American colonies. They make a welcome return to Harcourt Hall after so many months away. As Carlotta begins to assert her independence, and receives a gift of alpacas from the former governor of the Argentine, Lord Woife takes decisions on how to invest a proportion of their fortune in the rising automobile industry. The machinery of foreign diplomacy, occurring behind the scenes, and behind the backs of the politicians, increasingly draws Lord Wolfe into Russian affairs. Do they really have to travel to Saint Petersburg? What of the lives they are making back home?
Alternate History & Science Fiction
In an alternate history, decolonisation of the Americas follows a vastly different timeline, and the British royal family remains pre-eminent in world affairs.
Competing with a Bonaparte Byzantium and a French Empire under the Murats, the Saxe-Coburg British fight on an equal footing for recognition and influence.
Follow 1400 years of history, from an alternate 1900 to the galactic empire of 3300AD where humanity inadvertently reawakens a terror that the elder races believed long dead.