From: utzoo!decvax!cca!mclure@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Re: Magazines ? - (nf)
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3213
Posted: Fri Sep 10 13:38:36 1982
Received: Sat Sep 11 02:09:44 1982

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sri-unix!mclure    Sep  9 20:46:00 1982

Flame on.

I subscribe to Locus in order to find out what new books are out and
whether any of them are worth reading.  I have tried reading a couple
of the magazines, Analog & IASFM, but found that Sturgeon's Law applies
even more forcefully here than other places: 99% of everything is shit.
I had to wade through so much bad story-telling in these mags (in order
to find a single pearl) that it just didn't seem worth it.  Instead, I
get my short fiction by picking up copies of Terry Carr's anthologies,
the Nebula & Hugo short fiction yearly collections, and anthologies by
my favorite authors.  True, this misses "discovering" new talent,
although the New Dimensions series is useful for that; but it also
involves much less wasted time in the pulps.

Flame off.

	Stuart