InterGalactic Medicine Show

Infobox Website
name = InterGalactic Medicine Show

caption = IGMS page as of March 7th, 2007
url = http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com
commercial = Yes
type = Sci-Fi & Fantasy Webzine
registration = Pay-per-issue
owner = Hatrack River Enterprises
author = Orson Scott Card
launch date = October 2005

"InterGalactic Medicine Show" (sometimes shortened to "IGMS") is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It was founded by multiple award-winning author Orson Scott Card. There is also an anthology "Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show" which contains selected stories from the webzine.

The original publishing schedule, as reported in the Sci Fi Wire on September 29, 2005, was to be quarterly, with columns updated monthly. Issues cost US$2.50 each, payable through PayPal. The first issue was released October 15, 2005, the second released March 1, 2006, the third was released October 2, 2006 and the fourth was released February 20, 2007. Since the fifth issue in July 2007, new issues have been released quarterly.

The first issue offered seven stories, including the cover story "Respite", "Mazer in Prison", a story by Card from his Enderverse, and "Hot Sleep", a serialized novel by Card. The second issue offered eight stories, "In the Eyes of the Empress's Cat" being the cover story, with "Pretty Boy" from the Enderverse, a story by Card about Bonzo Madrid. The third issue, the first edited by Edmund R. Schubert, offered seven stories, with Tim Pratt's "Dream Engine" as the cover story, and with Card's short story "Cheater" about Han Tzu from the Enderverse] . In addition, the third issue included two young adult stories by David Lubar, "Hats Off" being released with the issue and "Running Out of Air" to be released on November 15th.

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*Orson Scott Card, Publisher and Executive Editor
*Edmund R. Schubert, Editor
*Kathleen A. Bellamy, Managing Editor
*Scott J. Allen, Web Designer
*Sara Ellis, Assistant Editor
*Justin Lopez, Assistant Editor

Card's works at "IGMS"

Ender's Game short stories

* "Mazer in Prison" - Issue 1
* "Pretty Boy" - Issue 2
* "Cheater" - Issue 3
* "A Young Man with Prospects" - Issue 4
* "The Gold Bug" - Issue 5
* "Ender's Stocking" - Issue 6
* "Ender's Homecoming" - Issue 7
* "Ender in Flight" - Issue 8

hort stories

* "The Yazoo Queen" - Issue 2

Novels

* "Hot Sleep" - Issue 1

Comics

* "Fat Farm" - Issue 1
* "A Plague of Butterflies" - Issue 7

Essays

* "How One Story Can Give Birth to Another" - Issue 4
* "Who Is Snape" - Issue 5

Audio

* "Mazer in Prison" - Issue 1
* "Middle Woman" - Issue 2
* "Cheater" - Issue 3

ee also

*List of works by Orson Scott Card
*List of Short Stories in Ender's Universe

External links

* [http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/ Official site]