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- From: amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again)
- Subject: Re: Analog (was Re: S.R. does it again)
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:09:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.051543.9305@atlantis.uucp> aaron%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca writes:
- >"Well, I'll have to differ, here, at least about Analog being worth buying
- >anyway...but that's just my personal taste.
-
- >"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.
- >
- >"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.
- >An issue of Analog is almost too long an immersion in hard SF for me."
-
- Funny... Amanda (without the Ekho) has just about the opposite reaction....
-
- "I haven't read Analog or Asimov recently (too much school! :), but i
- remember feeling that SF has got way too _diluted_ in recent years. True,
- this is an observation mostly made in chain bookstores where i can't
- *find* the SF mixed in with all the fantasy... but even those last bastions
- of SF purity, the Animovs (or is that Asalogs?), are getting less and less
- well-defined."
-
- Rather an extreme viewpoint, but then Amanda has a bit of a suspension-of-
- disbelief problem....
-
- "To Speculative Fiction, whatever the stripe!" --<< CRASH >>--
-
- amanda@wam.umd.edu -- Aliens and Spaceships! -- Amanda Babcock
-