I coulda been a subscriber
Sep. 6th, 2005 01:29 pmWow, so my second issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction arrived this week, and, wow, this one has more than one actual good story in it. The first issue I got was so very bad (with the exception of Kelly Link's "Magic for Beginners") that I was beginning to think somebody ought to be paying actual money to my betas, since they were obviously better editors than the editors of F&SF.
But our local library is so very lame when it comes to speculative fiction -- they can't even keep up to date on the Year's Best collections, never mind buy a reasonable selection of new novels each year -- that it's amazingly wonderful and inspiring just to have new stories to read arriving at my house once a month.
(And then the museum bookstore had the last six months' worth of Locus, so I bought the whole bunch, but they're so full of nonfictional stuff that I feel I ought to digest and understand. They make me tired just to look at them.)
And now I have the occasional paycheck coming in, and I want to subscribe to everything.
What spec-fic periodicals do y'all like?
But our local library is so very lame when it comes to speculative fiction -- they can't even keep up to date on the Year's Best collections, never mind buy a reasonable selection of new novels each year -- that it's amazingly wonderful and inspiring just to have new stories to read arriving at my house once a month.
(And then the museum bookstore had the last six months' worth of Locus, so I bought the whole bunch, but they're so full of nonfictional stuff that I feel I ought to digest and understand. They make me tired just to look at them.)
And now I have the occasional paycheck coming in, and I want to subscribe to everything.
What spec-fic periodicals do y'all like?