Tor.com accepts email submissions, and specifically wants works of 12500 wds or less. They do take submissions up to novella length though.
Lightspeed magazine also does online submission, though they're currently closed to additional material until next year.
If you really want to do things...
This book was good. Found it a little bleak though. I thought it had a sort of pessimistic tone. I mean, the death and loss is part in parcel with a novel, but it was the protagonists outlook generally seemed sort of depressingly nihilistic. But then again, i liked it for the cynical tone.
I would say a god is basically a powerful being, and just that. Noticeably more than human, in terms of longevity and or power and or durability, but not necessarily an omni-god, though it could be that too. In various pagan religions gods seem to be able to be punished or killed by men, and do...
If your god/immortal has a strictly physical form (and cannot reincarnate) you could simply find a way of attacking the element of that form that makes it more than the usual biological form. If its it's in the blood, drain the blood to make it dormant. If its in the heart, remove it. If its in...
In Renaissance Florence they had things like the Priors of the Guilds, the standard bearer of justice, and the lord defender of the city. I think the priori were for general rulership, the standard bearer a sort of watchdog to maintain justice amongst the priori,mthe judicial system, etc. I...
Saigonnus sums a lot of it up I think. It should be emphasised though that civilisations (at least as far as I know) seem generally to fall in the face of other civilisations (in more recent history). THe Aztecs fell to the spanish in the face of metal and gunpowder technology and the horse, and...
One other thing is the availability of domesticatable animals like Sheep and pigs and cattlebeast. You can have land as fertile as anything, but if its populated mainly with untamable animals, even if easy to hunt and large (high meat yeild), the poeple will still most likely be hunter...
If the world is infinitely flat why not have some sort of massive landmark (s) that are sufficiently high as to block out the sun? As the sun moves about the sky, around these landmarks (mountain ranges, etc), a sort of day night cysle could result.
You could explain the motion of the sun and...
It would be awesome. Deviations from traditional fantasy seem to be getting more and more popular, and it would be mad to have more in the way of semi-victorian steam punk worlds.
I think in a more archaic sense a sorcerer was someone who 'trafficked' with devils and demons and spirits and what not. I think its listed in the bible With/as synonymus with witchcraft, the most notable example of which is probably the conjury of the prophet samual to speak with king saul. I'm...