Planet Magazine

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Planet Magazine is a free American online magazine for fantasy and science fiction created by new writers and digital artists. It was one of the first illustrated SF publications on the Internet and has been published continuously since the January–March 1994 issue. It began as a quarterly e-zine in plain text, with later formats including DOCMaker for Mac and Adobe Acrobat 1.0, both offering full color illustrations. Early issues appeared on CompuServe, AOL, eWorld, and various bulletin board systems. In mid-1996 it became a webzine in HTML and started using the planetmag.com and planetmagazine.com domains, originally hosted on GeoCities. Around 1997 it switched to Etext.org as its web host. In August 2004 Planet moved to a blog-style format and increased its publishing frequency from quarterly to more regular releases. Some issues were even converted to Palm PDA format. The original Planet blurb described it as a free, award-winning electronic magazine of short science fiction and fantasy by emerging writers and illustrators, aimed at encouraging authors and artists and having fun.