Does anyone read Analog? I usually read Asimov's and Strange Horizons, but I picked up an April. I was really dissapointed. Nothing got my interest. I am sure the Joe Haldeman would be quite good, but it was the conclusion to a series, so I didn't bother. Nearly every intro I tried was in the first person and read like a detective novel.The one short story that I read through completion, I did out of spite, just to make sure that it was as bad as I thought it started. Complete with two incomprehensible setences, and two glaring stereotypes it was-- just as bad. I actually said What....well nevermind.
[This message has been edited by Bent Tree (edited March 11, 2008).]
Posted by Khalan (Member # 5950) on :
I usually read Asimov's and F&SF, but picked up a copy of Analog recently to give it a try. I guess I'm not the target audience, because I really didn't get into it. Now I'm not even sure where I put it.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
The first SF magazine I ever bought was an issue of Analog...it was two or three years before I even realized there were other SF magazines...however I didn't buy another for a full year (concentrating on SF books, mostly), and started my subscription right after that (that pesky money thing, though I don't remember how much it cost).
I still subscribe, but I rarely submit things to them even when I've got something. Both my general disenchantment with SF reading, and something about the direction Analog has gone in, just get together and keep me from diving into it too much. I'll still leaf through the copies I get.
(Sidebar thought: when then-editor John Campbell changed the name from Astounding to Analog, it seemed (to him) to make the magazine more hip and edgy and technologically advanced. But what do, er, regular people, not SF readers, think of when they hear the word "analog" these days?)
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Well, if they are trying to figure out why their televisions won't work in a year and what to do about it, they may think "analog" means out-dated.
Posted by TheOnceandFutureMe on :
I picked up a copy of Analog once, and I don't think I'll do it again. If I wanted to get preached at, I'd go to church naked. The stories that I read were little more than angry scientists yelling about creationism. I'm not even a creationist and I was offended.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
"As soon as possible" would be a good time to change the name back to Astounding...