Goodbye Asimovs








10 thoughts on “Goodbye Asimovs

  1. Hey Alexandru. I like the mix between Analog’s harder sci-fi and Asimov’s softer. As with anything some stories are more to my taste than others. Anyway, sorry to hear you’re not finding Asimov’s quite right for you, but I hope you’ll stick around long enough to read my story in the January issue :-). The story is more at the soft end, but I feel like the speculative aspect is critical to the story… if I took out that, the story would fall down.


    1. I will. I tend to prefer lighter SciFi over the Hard stuff. I love Dune and Hamiltons Space Operas over the hard stuff. It’s just that the last couple of issues of Asimovs have turned into DNF fests. Lots of stories without plot or point where the main character is just reminiscing or doing nothing. Slice of life stories where the dishwasher is a robot but otherwise the SFF element is nonexistent.

      In other news I’m about to sit down and read Cirsova 4. I’m looking forward to reading your story.


  2. The big magazines have been going that way for years. It seems like in order to get published in them your story needs to be a slice of life bit about under represented groups, like the gay meth head you mentioned. The SFF elements are not that important, and any aspect of action or excitement count against your chances. I’m all for adding literary value to your genre, and breaking away from the typical straight white male heroes, but it sure seems like they prefer stories that the majority of us would not call entertaining. It is a matter of tastes, like you said, but the big mag tastes have been bending more and more that way for a long, long time.


  3. According to Mrs. Hoyt, if Mrs Williams realizes (as she must) that readership is declining, and the market for left-leaning, mildly-to-beat-you-over-the-head-with-a-stick race-and-interesectional gender theory spec fic, she has no choice but to double and even triple down.

    That way when the rag goes tits up, and she’s out looking for a new job, she can blame her current lack of employment, not on her own editorial failures, but on the patriarchy.

    “I tried to educate the misogynistic hatey-mc-hater Nazi-phobes AND THEY PUNISHED ME. Hire me now.”

    It’s a working theory, but it seems to have explanatory power.

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