Re: Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction--defunct?

On 7/14/25 5:53 PM, Gary McGath wrote:

On 7/14/25 6:04 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

F&SF was always an outlier, even back when it was the "Big 6" (Analog, Amazing, Fantastic, Galaxy, If, and F&SF--and that tells you how old I am!), and it's outlasted four of them, so it has had a good run. I have to admit that when it went to the thicker double issues, it never felt like the same magazine again to me.

 I'm reminded of Mike Rubin's "Three Laws of Thermo":
 I see all these rejections are driving you mad;
Even F&SF won't take science this bad;
Have some friendly advice: sell to Omni, my lad.
 (Anyone remember Omni?)
 

I still have the T-shirt they gave out (in 1982 at Chicon IV?) that says "A SPACESHIP HAS LANDED ON EARTH / IT CAME FROM ROCKWELL" with a picture of the shuttle on the front, and "OMNI / The Magazine of Tomorrow / Charting Man's Progess / Through the 21st Century" on the back. In fact, I wore it a couple of days ago. I also had some OMNI plastic bags (from the same convention?), but I gave them out to the panelists on the OMNI panel at LoneStarCon 3.
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Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking
to those who do not wish to hear it. --Samuel Butler