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December 31, 2021

2021 Yearly roundup

2021 has been a very good year for GigaNotoSaurus. So for the first time, I’m writing a Yearly Roundup. We have gathered a great slush team and we moved our submissions system to Moksha, which has helped us in maintaining our submissions better. We had 789 submissions this year processed through Moksha (March through December […]

December 28, 2020

Looking Back at 2020 and Looking Ahead to 2021

by LaShawn M. Wanak, Editor

I’m going to be upfront. When I accepted Ann Leckie’s invitation to become GNS editor in August 2019, I had no clue what I was getting into. I was working three positions in my dayjob with the promise that those would shrink to just one by the end of the year. I did not realize […]

August 31, 2018

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An apology

Dear Readers, We have removed the story “Hungry Demigods” by Andrea Tang (November, 2017) from this website and archives after concerns were raised about the work’s originality. We examined “Hungry Demigods” and its alleged source side-by-side, and found that the story did not meet our requirements as an original work. We thank the reader who […]

January 29, 2018

Giganotosaurus 2017 Award Eligibility

It’s incredible to me that Giganotosaurus turned seven this year and that 2017 marks my third full year as editor. From its earliest days, Giganotosaurus has existed with a single goal: publish one “longish” (longer than a short story, shorter than a novel) work of speculative fiction a month. I’m incredibly proud of the 12 stories that met our […]

January 12, 2016

2015 Year In Review: What We Published

Editor’s Note: Editors are capricious creatures, and since we’re not all operating out of the same playbook (or any playbook at all for that matter) by nature our job is a subjective one. My goal in choosing stories for Giganotosaurus is in line with our stated value of diversity in storytelling in its myriad forms. I […]