Comments on: Science fiction magazines don’t have to die

By: bella

bella — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:49:37 +0000

I think thi artical is very hard to read and it took me about 2 days to read it- I am also a very good reader. I personally think that this is an extremely long piece of writing. However, this piece of extremely long writing does have some intresting facts which I somehow can take in. Mabey a handy tip… DON’T WRITE SO MUCH NEXT TIME!!!
This is bella dunnings quote on this enormously outstandingly long pice of vast work.

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Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:04:41 +0000

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Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:38:43 +0000

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By: Real5y

Real5y — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:06:52 +0000

All really interesting posts!

I find all of it kind of amusing in a way particularly the stuff about the modern readership going for the free internet route rather than ’stumping up the cash’. It puts me in mind of a colleague I used to work with when internet cafes had their first big boom in London (Way back in the early 90’s lol). One comment he said has always stuck with me… “If your making a website, running an online business, whatever, it’s the free s@$t that gets me in, if there’s no free s@$t, there’s a little cross on a button at the top right corner of the screen, it’s called the ‘can’t be arsed button’ and I use it all the time…”

Speaking as a myspace user, it’s not only because it’s free, flexible and powerful, but also because it was cleverly marketed and constantly passed around by word of mouth and the media.

Is science fiction such a niche market nowadays that to pass word of mouth is a difficult, disparate task?

Maybe the new Doctor Who will turn the generations upcoming into real geek heads like me…

One can only hope…

By: Gareth D Jones

Gareth D Jones — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:43:30 +0000

“Small press mags seem to come and go, and it�s a sure sign that the genre itself is still alive and well when people are willing to start up these projects for the love of the genre, with little or no hope of profit, and that good writers are willing to sell their art to them so cheaply.”

The UK has lost ‘Scifantastic’ and ‘Here and Now’ in the past year, two small press magazines that made it to less than 10 issues. This year though has seen the launch of ‘Hub’, ‘Fiction’ and, later this year, ‘Murky Depths’. That makes at least 8 magazines that I know of in the UK. I’m doing my small part to support these by writing reviews of as many issues as I can get hold of. I haven’t found a definitive list of UK SF magazines anywhere, but I am listing them on my website as I discover them. Please let me know if there are any I’ve missed out so I can keep up-to-date.