Slog - Comments on The Long, Sad Death of the Sci-fi Magazine http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine 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... Copyright 2008 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:43:53 -0800 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:59:08 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Gabe I've read hundreds of these...a friend gave me his collection of Asimovs, F&SF, and Analog years ago. I've probably got every issue from 1969-89, some older and some newer. Sure some of it is not so great, but a lot is worth reading. A 2 parter by Kilgore Trout complete with fake photo/bio from '69 (I think) is very cool.

]]> Gabe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine#c1092605 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine#c1092605 Books Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:01:53 -0800 Comment by Greg @1: I so want that Kilgore Trout 2-parter.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine#c1092625 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine#c1092625 Books Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:16:53 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways uh, you didn't really need to put "Sci-fi" in your title...ALL print magazines are dying to one degree or the other...

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine#c1092632 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine#c1092632 Books Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:19:05 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Sadly, @3 has a point. But writing short stories for a magazine always felt a lot more fun than slaving at a novel, from my perspective.

Even if book authors are the ones that do better in the long run.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine#c1092648 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine#c1092648 Books Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:23:39 -0800 Comment by Gabe @2: Looks like it was Decemder 74 - Jan. 75, not '69, and not Vonnegut. Still a good story, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_on_the_Half-Shell

]]> Gabe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine#c1092699 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine#c1092699 Books Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:50:27 -0800 Comment by Gabe Yup...here's the cover, this is the one I have somewhere:)

http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/FSF/FSF_0283.jpg

]]> Gabe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine#c1092709 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_long_sad_death_of_the_scifi_magazine#c1092709 Books Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:59:08 -0800