Red Rocket Station
IROSF now has a best friend!

Marti created Red Rocket Station to create a dynamic place for conversation about science fiction (literature, culture, etc.). We've been looking at ways to make IROSF more useful and inviting, but at the end of the day, the Internet Review of Science Fiction is a traditionally edited publication, with all the benefits and drawbacks that go along with that. We are still bouncing around ideas to move IROSF in a direction that supports a broader ecology of content mechanisms while remaining true to the vision of "creating a forum for the serious exploration of the literature of the fantastic."

However, Red Rocket Station has a broader mission: to support the broader community of authors, editors, readers, and fans by encouraging conversation, organization, coordination. This could be reviews, discussions, live interviews in the chat room, planning amongst convention goers, live reporting from conventions, blogging, photo journals from science fiction events... the whole works.

Personally, I'm a little leary of the term "social networking" -- it's not really about networking. It's about sharing. Sharing our experiences of books, films, games, events, conventions, the whole works.

So if you're into Science Fiction or Fantasy, check out Red Rocket Station, and help it grow. As with any of these things, the more cool people are participating the better it gets.