Warren Ellis looks at the circulation numbers of all the major sci-fi magazines that publish short fiction and sees an impending death knell:

As was stated over and over last year, any number of things could be done to help these magazines. But, naturally enough, the magazines’ various teams appear not to consider anything to be wrong. They’ll provide what their remaining audience would seem to want, until they all finally die of old age, and then they’ll turn out the lights. And that’ll be it for the short-fiction sf print magazine as we know it.

When I was a kid, I used to read an uncle’s old copies of Asimov Science Fiction and I really liked it. In many ways, short stories are the best way to enjoy science fiction: get in, introduce an idea, get out. Too bad everything is all series of super-giant overpadded books now. Ellis points to Clarkesworld and Farrago’s Wainscot as good online examples of sci-fi magazines, if you’re interested in giving them a shot.