Membership

Transfer Orbit is a newsletter about science fiction, writing, and the future of reading, and it's largely written by Andrew Liptak.

I'm a journalist who's covered entertainment and fandom for more than a decade for places like io9, OneZero, Polygon, Tor.com, and others, and this newsletter is a way for me to continue that work independently. While largely free for everyone, a small contingent of readers help supports this work.

Transfer Orbit has garnered praise from authors, professionals, and members of the SF/F community, who've called Liptak "one of the important critics and reviewers in the genre," and the newsletter an "indispensable resource" and a "great combination of commentary, reporting, and analysis" of the SF world.

It's been featured in The Washington Post and Vulture, and has been reprinted in outlets such as Slate and Lifehacker.

Why Support Transfer Orbit?

The media environment is chaotic. There are plenty of sites out there delivering low-quality news about the state of genre books, films, television shows, games, and more.

Transfer Orbit is a newsletter designed to cut through the clickbait, sensational, and irrelevant reporting to provide readers with a clear idea of the state of the stories we love, through contextual and in-depth reporting. AI is never used in the production of this newsletter.

Subscribing helps support this work, in which I look to explore and explain the mechanics of the SF/F world and why it matters to you, a reader, viewer, or listener.

Your subscription helps support the publication as a whole by allowing me to devote time and resources to its production. Subscriptions helps make interview transcriptions, sourcing images, hosting on Ghost, and the time to research, write, and edit the posts you receive, possible.

Public and Supporting subscribers

Transfer Orbit has two subscriber tiers: public and supporting.

Public

A regular roundup email, with the occasional in-depth piece.

• A weekly "roundup" email (which includes a roundup of the week's posts from Transfer Orbit and links to other stories that are worth reading.)
• In-depth features or reports about the state of the SF/F world.
• Monthly roundup of new SF/F books each month.
• Book reviews and commentary.

Supporters

Supporters are members with a paid subscription to Transfer Orbit. Their support helps keep this newsletter running – subscriptions help pay for hosting on Ghost, various tools, books and resources for dedicated reporting, etc.

• Supporters get all posts from Transfer Orbit emailed to them, and the occasional pay-walled post with extra commentary or reporting.
• Monthly Table of Contents email that rounds up the month's short fiction.
• Dedicated Slack group to chat with their fellow readers.
• The occasional short story that I finish.

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You can also support this newsletter by purchasing books through the monthly book lists or via its Bookshop.org page.