Science fiction magazines

[David LaPell]

Some of the best science fiction writers and really great stories started out in science fiction magazines. Are there any still around, I always like some great reading but never see any on the shelves anywhere.

 

[Texas Star]

I recall them, but looked at Border's frequently for them and found none while they were in business.

For whatever reason, I never checked Barnes & Noble. I'll do that soon.

 

[Gunslinger808]

I had a subscription to Omni till it folded in 98.
Great articles and stories with some awesome artwork thrown in.
Asimov's is one I still pick up occasionaly.
Here's a list of the top 10 still being published:
Top 10 Science Fiction Magazines

 

[cowart]

My favorite is "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction"

They had to go to a bi-monthly schedule because the postal rates got so high, which is why you don't see it in book stores much. It now runs $34.97 for a 6 issue/one year subscription. See
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/

The Kindle edition is only $0.99 per month.
Amazon.com: Fantasy & Science Fiction, Extended Edition: Kindle Store: Spilogale Inc.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Here are a couple of issues of F & SF that I have treasured for years:



I always thought Kilgore Trout was a fictional character, until I found these.

 

[TACC1]

My parents had, literally, a ton of the old mags from the early
fifties. Took me a long time to read them all. TACC1

 

[Straightshooter2]

I did not realize that Analog was still in print. Some of the greatest SciFi in history was published in that magazine and the list of great authors that John W. Campbell first published when it was still Astounding is huge. One of my all time favorite novels from Analog was Sleeping Planet which is out of print now and almost impossible to find except in used book stores and on e-bay.

Of course Campbell also published L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics.

CW

 

[Texas Star]

Here are a couple of issues of F & SF that I have treasured for years:



I always thought Kilgore Trout was a fictional character, until I found these.

Adding the dog and the guy with the ukelele certainly lends a different aspect to the Venus than one usually sees in the Botticelli original of the art...but it's sort of cute.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Tex, I thought you might be one guy who would get the significance of these issues. Any Vonnegut fans out there?