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stands alone as the only true digest magazine left in the genre.
The other significant change for Asimov's and Analog was the establishment in early 1998 of Internet
Web sites for both magazines; Asimov's's site is at http://www.asimovs.com, and Analog's is at
http://www.analogsf.com, both sites sponsored by SF Site. Both sites feature story excerpts, book
reviews, essays, and other similar features; and live interviews, "chats," and other on-line-only features
are planned for the near future. More significantly, perhaps, you can subscribe to both magazines
electronically, on-line, by giving a credit card number and clicking a few buttons, and this feature is
already bringing in new subscribers, particularly from other parts of the world where interested readers
have formerly found it difficult to subscribe because of the difficulty of obtaining American currency and
because of other logistical problems (Asimoy's, for instance, has already picked up new subscribers from
France, Russia, Ireland, Italy, and even the United Arab Emirates).
The Magazine offantasy 6 Science Fiction completed its first year under new editor Cordon Van
Gelder, although most of the material that appeared there this year was probably part of the extensive
inventory left behind by former editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch. A favorite literary parlor game this year
was to try to pick out which stories in the magazine had been bought by Gordon and which by Kris, with
even one of the Locus columnists joining in with speculations as to what inferences about "new directions"
for the magazine you could draw from the stuff in the June issue, the first one with Gordon's name on the
masthead. Gordon merely smiles like a Cheshire cat and refuses to answer these questions, but I suspect
that most of the speculations to date have been wrong. It'll be interesting to see how the magazine does
change in coming months, and in which directions, as Kris's inventory finally runs out. Cordon has
brought new science columnists Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty in to supplement Gregory Benford, and
the book reviews seem to be rotating on an irregular basis among Robert K. J. Killheffer, Michelle West,
Elizabeth Hand, and Douglas E. Winter, with a review column by Charles de Lint also in most issues,
occasionally a review column by Gordon himself, and Paul Di Filippo (who is doing critical columns for
Asimov's, F&SF, and Science Fiction Age all at the same time, which may be a genre first!) contributing
quirky metafictional literarily oriented comic pieces from time to time. F&SF changed its Web site; the
new one at w.fsfmag.com had not gone up in time for me to report on it for this book.
The British magazine Interzone completed its seventh full year as a monthly publication. Circulation
went down very slightly this year, but remained more or less the same as last year-disappointingly, no
major gains, but at least no catastrophic drops either. Interzone is one of the most reliable places to find
first-rate fiction in the entire magazine market, with the literary quality of the stories consistently high, and
it's one of the magazines that you really should subscribe to, especially as it is almost impossible to find
Interzone on newsstands or in bookstores on the American side of the Atlantic. To miss it is to miss some
of the best stuff available anywhere today. Interzone also has a Web site
(http://www.riviera.demon.co.uk/interzon.htm), although there's not really much thereyou can subscribe
to the magazine there, though, which is perhaps the salient point.
Science Fiction Age successfully completed their fifth full year of publication. Although overall
circulation of Science Fiction Age dropped again in 1997, by a substantial 14 percent, the magazine
seems in general to be successful and profitable, with editor Scott Edelman attributing the drop in
circulation to readers switching subscriptions to Science Fiction Age's companion magazines, Realms of
Fantasy and the media magazine Sci-Fi Entertainment, as well as to the newly purchased media magazine
Sci-Fi Universe (both media magazines are also edited by Edelman). As Edelman points out, this gives
Sovereign Media four successful genre titles where before they had only one (Science Fiction Age itself,
the first magazine published by Sovereign), and that that is worth siphoning off some of the original
magazine's subscription base. (It's a good argument, but one that will look a little thin if Science Fiction
Age's circulation continues to drop in the future.) Artistically, Science Fiction Age had its best year yet,
publishing some very strong stories, and for the second year in a row was a more reliable source for
good core science fiction overall than was The Magazine of Fantasy 6 Science Fiction, which still
published more fantasy and soft horror stories this year than they did good SF stories.
Tomorrow Speculative Fiction is now an "on-line electronic magazine" called Tomorrow SF, and is