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- From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
- Subject: Analog (was Re: S.R. does it again)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.051543.9305@atlantis.uucp>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:15:43 GMT
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- Barbara Trumpinski (trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- : > "Some of you may already have read it, but for those of you
- : >without subscriptions to Analog magazine, Spider Robinson has gone and
- : >done it. That's right, Mary's Place is open. January 1993 issue."
- : > "The story is called _The Immediate Family_. I just finished reading
- : >it and its of the same consistent quality and good feeling as the original
- : >stories of Callahans. "
-
- : > "To _The Immediate Family_."
-
- : ><<<Crash.>>>
-
- : kitten hears this toast after she comes back in...she shakes the snow
- : out of her curls and adds her bit to dreamweaver's toast...
-
- : "don't wait, because it will be awhile. spider said that the third
- : book in the "stardance" collaboration will come first...and 'analog'
- : is worth buying anyway..."
-
- "Well, I'll have to differ, here, at least about Analog being worth buying
- anyway...but that's just my personal taste. It amazes me that they still
- publish Spider, but I guess he's a contributor of long standing there. No, I
- have problems with Analog because a)I don't pick it up regularly or subscribe,
- and they keep running serialized novels that basically waste a third of the
- issue, and b)because I usually don't care much for their stories.
-
- "Today I picked up the first issue of Senary, a local SF magazine that may
- have a promising future if they ever get organized. One of the Editors,
- Derryl Murphy, had the following to say(and I quote):
-
- You will notice one specific type of SF missing from these pages, although
- its absence may not become so glaring until a few more editions of this
- journal seep into the stores. In our opinion, hard science SF is not a field
- that will grow much of a decent crop anymore, as any monoculture will tend to
- devastate the soil if not rotated often enough.
- Many specific instances come to mind, but at this moment the book I am
- thinking of is _Fallen Angels_ by Niven, Pournelle, and Flynn. This sort of
- paranoid thinking and absolute trust in science as our saviour seem to be
- found hand-in-hand more often today than any time in recent history; is it
- any wonder society is still having problems finding its way out of
- patriarchalism?
- So we would like to rule out hard SF, but like all strict rules, we can
- always find an exception. Greg Benford's "Matter's End" from _Full Spectrum 3_
- is just such an exception, and goes to prove that you just can't rely on some
- writers to hold to form. We'd take a story like that in a second.
-
- "I wouldn't say that my opinion matches with Derryl's completely, but the first
- paragraph is spot-on. I include the others just for purposes of discussion.
- As someone who likes to read the stuff somewhere between SF and Fantasy(has
- there ever been a solid line between them?), I can sometimes get a little tired
- of the stuff too firmly entrenched in one or the other if I don't intersperse
- them. An issue of Analog is almost too long an immersion in hard SF for me."
-
- --
- ---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
- "Give me your mirth. It bores me when you weep. My loves you cannot touch. They're buried deep." ---Don Marquis
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