Radon Journal Issue 4 (May 2023) is out! Read 10 spectacular short stories and 10 powerful poems all with unique, endless depth that comes only from a Radon story.

Free pdf available here: https://www.radonjournal.com/

About

Radon is a triannual online journal publishing prose and poetry relating to science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, and dystopia. We are a paying market.

We publish quality literature every January, May, and September.

Radon nominates its writers for numerous awards. They include the Pushcart Prize, Rhysling Awards, O. Henry Prize, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net.

Mission

​At Radon, we know what we love and hope you will share in our revelry. We strive to be a professional community for a unique blend of passions. Our goal is to amplify the voices of writers who see the world differently, who use story and verse to expose injustice and investigate our impending futures.

It is our vow to remain non-profit and transparent. We are here to embody the wholesome values of anarchy (democracy, equality, freedom, order, mutual-aid) and provide an avenue for writers
to join the conversation.

If you envision writing on Mars before you die, gleefully run toward the technological singularity, or want to fight back against the world, then you've found home. Welcome.

Issue #4 Contents

Fiction

Money Thirst
by Eva Papasoulioti

Spill-Free and Sparkling
by Addison Smith

Come Out, Come Out
by Myna Chang

Pressure
by B. Garden

When Gods Walk
by Aeryn Rudel

Conversation With a
Bomb Technician
by Andrew Maust

The Grocery Store
by A. Reid Johnson

Ascendant Neither-Nors
by Lex Chamberlin

Koral
by Will McMahon

Tongue Mining
by Jack Morton

Poetry

The Nuclear Age
by Nathaniel Cairney

Please Get On the Ship
by Angel Leal

Elegy for the
Asteroid Miner
by Goran Lowie

Chemical Rebalance for
Young Cyborg Housewives
by Mahaila Smith

From Cassini to Saturn
by Matthew Herskovitz

Organic Scramble
by Brian U. Garrison

Ozymandias
by Anna Remennik

Pallor
by Brendan Rowland

we stole death
by Jona L. Pedersen

Neo-Beirut, Closed City
by J.D. Harlock

Masthead

Aimer – Anarcho-transhumanist and anti-fascist. Holds an MFA in Poetry, a BA in Prose, and was a touring spoken word poet for fourteen years. Works for a non-profit publishing high-impact science research articles.

Alecto – Writes speculative fiction novels and plays both the flugelhorn and MMOs in her spare time. Holds a business degree from Tulane University. Formerly a freelance editor, she works retail as her day job. She lives with her fiancé and dachshund.

Eden – Queer writer and editor from the Midwest. Studied Creative Writing and Spanish language. Outside of reading short story collections, they love board games, nature walks, and learning new styles of arts and crafts.

Kelsey – Anarchist, writing tutor, and English/Political Science grad from the Midwest. Enjoys sci-fi, satire, and modernist poetry. Likes hiking in woods and shooting on film.

Renee – Socialist Latina from the Southwest. Holds an MA in Literature and BA in English. Currently works for a university press and a social science organization on the East Coast. All she loves more than dystopian books are dogs—especially her own.

Saga – Writer and editor currently working on a publishing master’s on the East Coast. Enjoys science fiction, video games, excellent worldbuilding, and iced tea. They are an Annual National Novel Writing Month survivor.

Teague, PhD – Engineer and researcher by day. Anti-fascist science fiction author and editor by night.

Comments

Chomsky ♡ Epst… (not verified) Thu, 05/18/2023 - 19:19

Be impressed! They have college degrees. Because whenever I think of someone I don't know, my first thought is always what college degrees does that person have. Always!

I've never heard that anarchy means democracy, equality, and vague sense of muh freedoms. Anarchy and democracy sound blatantly contradictory to me. I don't have a college degree.

Radon Journal Mon, 05/29/2023 - 11:31

In reply to by Chomsky ♡ Epst… (not verified)

To Chomsky ♡ Epstein,

We hope that you'll end up being impressed with the quality of the writing in each issue and not the masthead.

It's true that most of us do have degrees, but that's simply from many of the editors meeting while in academia. We each created and joined various anarchist affinity groups throughout our teens and 20s to do direct action, punch Nazis, and create DIY zines outside of our love for learning. But we grew tired of bickering with the damn Marxist-Leninists who pushed outdated Marxist literary theory and ignored the more advanced anarchist literary critiques. Our skillsets were writing and publishing and so we created Radon to combine our love of anarchism and science fiction, filling a niche that didn't seem to exist in the world. We launched without a masthead but felt that offering our credentials would offer greater credibility to our endeavor for the submitting public trusting us with their writing.

The majority of the readership for Radon may not describe themselves as anarchist, and so our mission statement is intentionally broader and more introductory. From centuries of propaganda, the upper class turned the word "anarchy" into something that wrongly means "chaos, terrorism, and disorder." We wanted to showcase a truthful definition that even liberals would be assuaged by hearing. One of our chief goals is being an ambassador for anarchist theory to be introduced to others through exciting stories.

You're right that we do list a few descriptions of anarchy in our mission statement, and we're sorry we didn't have more room to explain more nuance. When we say "democracy" we know that there are different meanings, even among anarchists. We specifically meant direct democracy and consensus-based decision making. Direct democracy with the caveat that we do not mean a simple dictatorship of the majority. No, we mean in the anarchist sense that it combines free association and community conversation and compromise. For smaller groups we wholeheartedly support consensus decision making.

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