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On 7/13/25 9:23 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
In article<1050aj0$2nd45$2@dont-email.me>,
Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
I haven't gotten an issue since Summer 2024; is this defunct?
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov's Science Fiction, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction have been acquired by
Must Read Magazines. MRM's proposed contract is pretty dire:
authors must surrender their moral rights. So, it's not clear
the magazines will survive the new owners.
But Analog and Asimov's seem to still be coming out regularly. I suppose
they could be publishing backlog, but wouldn't all the magazines have
the same proposed contracts?
F&SF was always an outlier, even back when it was the "Big 6" (Analog, Amazing, Fantastic, Galaxy, If, and F&SF--and that tells you how old I
am!), and it's outlasted four of them, so it has had a good run. I have
to admit that when it went to the thicker double issues, it never felt
like the same magazine again to me.
F&SF was always an outlier, even back when it was the "Big 6" (Analog, Amazing, Fantastic, Galaxy, If, and F&SF--and that tells you how old I
am!), and it's outlasted four of them, so it has had a good run. I have
to admit that when it went to the thicker double issues, it never felt
like the same magazine again to me.
On 7/14/25 6:04 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
F&SF was always an outlier, even back when it was the "Big 6" (Analog,
Amazing, Fantastic, Galaxy, If, and F&SF--and that tells you how old I
am!), and it's outlasted four of them, so it has had a good run. I
have to admit that when it went to the thicker double issues, it never
felt like the same magazine again to me.
I'm reminded of Mike Rubin's "Three Laws of Thermo":
I see all these rejections are driving you mad;
Even F&SF won't take science this bad;
Have some friendly advice: sell to Omni, my lad.
(Anyone remember Omni?)
On 7/14/25 6:04 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
F&SF was always an outlier, even back when it was the "Big 6" (Analog,
Amazing, Fantastic, Galaxy, If, and F&SF--and that tells you how old I
am!), and it's outlasted four of them, so it has had a good run. I
have to admit that when it went to the thicker double issues, it never
felt like the same magazine again to me.
I'm reminded of Mike Rubin's "Three Laws of Thermo":
I see all these rejections are driving you mad;
Even F&SF won't take science this bad;
Have some friendly advice: sell to Omni, my lad.
(Anyone remember Omni?)
On 7/14/2025 5:53 PM, Gary McGath wrote:sues, it never felt like the same magazine again to me.
I'm reminded of Mike Rubin's "Three Laws of Thermo":
I see all these rejections are driving you mad;
Even F&SF won't take science this bad;
Have some friendly advice: sell to Omni, my lad.
(Anyone remember Omni?)
In the early 80s, I was a member of the New York L-5 society,
which promoted space colonization, which somehow swung a deal to
have its monthly meetings at the OMNI's offices after hours.
OMNI was published by Kathy Keeton, girlfriend and later wife of
Bob Guccione. As a result, it shared editorial offices with
Penthouse magazine.
The wall posters throughout the offices were entertaining, to
say the least.
On 7/16/25 8:40 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 7/14/2025 5:53 PM, Gary McGath wrote:sues, it never felt like the same magazine again to me.
I'm reminded of Mike Rubin's "Three Laws of Thermo":
I see all these rejections are driving you mad;
Even F&SF won't take science this bad;
Have some friendly advice: sell to Omni, my lad.
(Anyone remember Omni?)
In the early 80s, I was a member of the New York L-5 society,
which promoted space colonization, which somehow swung a deal to
have its monthly meetings at the OMNI's offices after hours.
OMNI was published by Kathy Keeton, girlfriend and later wife of
Bob Guccione. As a result, it shared editorial offices with
Penthouse magazine.
The wall posters throughout the offices were entertaining, to
say the least.
The line in the song right after the part I quoted was:
They're closer to Penthouse than science.
I still have the T-shirt they gave out (in 1982 at Chicon IV?) that says
"A SPACESHIP HAS LANDED ON EARTH / IT CAME FROM ROCKWELL" with a picture
of the shuttle on the front, and "OMNI / The Magazine of Tomorrow /
Charting Man's Progess / Through the 21st Century" on the back. In fact,
I wore it a couple of days ago. I also had some OMNI plastic bags (from
the same convention?), but I gave them out to the panelists on the OMNI >panel at LoneStarCon 3.
Some of the stories were from authors that never got seen anywhere
else, and
who deserved to be seen elsewhere, like Steven Robinett.
In article <105o0jb$jv3$1@panix2.panix.com>, kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:
Some of the stories were from authors that never got seen anywhere
else, and
who deserved to be seen elsewhere, like Steven Robinett.
Robinett was more of an Analog author where he also used the pseudonym
Tak Hallus.
In article <105o0jb$jv3$1@panix2.panix.com>, kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:
Some of the stories were from authors that never got seen anywhere
else, and
who deserved to be seen elsewhere, like Steven Robinett.
Robinett was more of an Analog author where he also used the pseudonym
Tak Hallus.
I think he was specifically a Ben Bova author, which would explain why
he migrated to Omni.
Wow, I never saw him there. I think I first encountered him in some
of
the paperback collections of stories from OMNI. Now, there is an
author
who should get a NESFA Press reprint series.
In article <105p2t0$i3f$1@panix2.panix.com>, kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:
Wow, I never saw him there. I think I first encountered him in some
of
the paperback collections of stories from OMNI. Now, there is an
author
who should get a NESFA Press reprint series.
He had a novel serialised in Analog called Stargate, years before the
film of that name. I rather liked it.