Ideomancer

{{Short description|Canadian speculative fiction magazine (2001–2015)}}

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| frequency = Quarterly

| category = Speculative fiction magazine

| founded = 2001

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| country = Canada

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| editor = Leah Bobet

| language = English

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Ideomancer was a Canadian quarterly online speculative fiction magazine whose contents included science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, horror, flash fiction and speculative poetry, along with reviews and interviews. The first issue debuted in 2001,{{cite book|author=Rachel Randall|title=2016 Novel and Short Story Writer's Market: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qcA_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA236|accessdate=22 February 2017|date=8 September 2015|work=F+W Media, Inc.|isbn=978-1-59963-938-3|page=236|publisher=F&W Media, Incorporated }} and in 2002 the magazine was "rebooted" with new numbering under new editorship. Volume 1 of the current Ideomancer was established in 2002.

Chris Clarke and Mikal Trimm, who were on the original Ideomancer editorial team, edited an ebook anthology called Ideomancer Unbound published by Fictionwise{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20000817011248/http://www.fictionwise.com/ Fictionwise]}} in 2002. It includes stories by Charles Coleman Finlay, Jack Dann, Jeff VanderMeer, Tobias S. Buckell, Deborah Biancotti, Mike Resnick, and Claire McKenna, among others. Cover art is by Cat Sparks.

As of 2019, it appears that the magazine is now defunct.{{cite web|title=The Submission Grinder |url=https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/Market.aspx?mid=173|website=The Submission Grinder|publisher=Diabolical Plots, LLC|accessdate=16 April 2019}} It ceased publication sometime after April 20, 2015, which was the date of the last tweet on their Twitter account.{{cite web|title=Ideomancer Twitter Account |url=https://twitter.com/ideomancer?lang=en|website=Ideomancer Twitter Account|publisher=Ideomancer|accessdate=16 April 2019}}