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Re:Busting a Myth: “Only writers subscribe to genre magazines” by NoMoreNicksLeft on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:16PM (#36979690)
Analog and Asimov's were bimonthly last I had subscribed, just 7 or 8 per year. They're not even novel-sized. When I had more time to read, I could keep up with those and still read 5 or 6 novels per month.

Dunno what I would have done if I'd been alive when there were more titles in publication. I think of the old stuff, I like Worlds of If, archive.org has most of those. The new stuff's a little too pandering anyway.

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Re:Busting a Myth: “Only writers subscribe to genre magazines” by qingcharles on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:35PM (#36981045)
It's true. There were a lot more in the past. It was impossible to keep up. So much greatness to be found in these magazines though, I would hate not to read them cover-to-cover because when I've tried to skip around I invariably end up missing some story that turns out to blow my mind.
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Re:Busting a Myth: “Only writers subscribe to genre magazines” by A_D_E_P_T on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:25AM (#36984884)
> The new stuff's a little too pandering anyway.

What do you mean by this? I think I've noticed the same thing, and it troubles me -- because I'm not sure who exactly they're pandering to (the set of non-readers who are uninterested in the genre?) or to what purpose. It could be, however, that we're not talking about the same thing...

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