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Jordan Lapp
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  		   Posted 11/7/2007 1:35 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I just bought a stack of Asimov's from a used book store. As usual, I think you're being a little pessimistic, but are probably right in most respects.

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Well if someone sees a classified ad from 2 or 3 years ago, I doubt it's helping the guy who placed it. And paid for it expecting 200,000 people to read it. Maybe that's pessimistic, but maybe not. Maybe it's just realistic.

Either way, it's more gratifying to believe that 200,000 people will see any given copy of F&SF than not to believe it. One things for sure: more people are probably going to read the classifieds whether topical or not than the fiction.

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  		   Posted 11/13/2007 4:45 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Why the decline in SF mags? First off, I think you can blame a "character-driven" policy. I don't want to spend nearly ten bucks (in Canada) to read about someone weeping into their space tea. Give me action, let the characterization flow out of exciting plot situations. I miss the old days of Asimovs with stories by Barry B. Longyear et al. with great George Barr artwork. The current stuff isn't poorly done. It is well-written. It's just not written for me. I'm not saying we've got to go back to the days of THRILLING WONDER STORIES, but hey, how about a little Baen-style action once in a while...

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G. W. Thomas has appeared in over 350 different books, magazines and ezines including Writer's Digest, The Armchair Detective and Black October Magazine. He draws the web comic CHUCK THE PENGUIN. His website is www.gwthomas.org

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gwthomas21 said...
 but hey, how about a little Baen-style action once in a while...

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Baen's Universe doesn't satisfy?

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  		   Posted 11/13/2007 6:25 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
gwthomas21 said...
I don't want to spend nearly ten bucks (in Canada) to read about someone weeping into their space tea.
rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl

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  		   Posted 11/13/2007 6:33 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Unless the space tea conceals an amorphous life form that is awakened by the tears, rears up and sucks out their eyeballs.
 
I'd pay eight bucks American for that.

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  		   Posted 11/25/2007 10:56 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Who wouldn't?
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Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
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"Dutchman Rescue"in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
"Stains" in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
"Slushpiles" in Between the Kisses
www.samsdotpublishing.com/betweenkisses/TurnerSlushPileS.htm

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  		   Posted 11/25/2007 11:42 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Nicholas said...
Unless the space tea conceals an amorphous life form that is awakened by the tears, rears up and sucks out their eyeballs.


When do you expect to have that finished?
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