Helix SF was a quarterly American speculative fiction online magazine edited by William Sanders and Lawrence Watt-Evans.
Sanders began the magazine in 2006[1] as "a place where writers could publish things that none of the regular markets wanted to touch" without any attempt "to be a commercial publication."
The venture was supported entirely by reader donations, though Sanders emphasized in his first editorial that the intention was to make Helix SF "a professional-quality online magazine."
In 2008, Sanders wrote a rejection letter for a submission to Helix SF in which he called Muslims "sheet heads", "worm brained" and "incapable of honesty."
Not that we've ever hurt for money — we've always been able to pay the writers, if not pro rates, at least considerably better than the average free webzine - but as things have turned out, the support has come mainly from a small number of amazingly generous donors, rather than over a wide range of the readership.