jimb@ISM780B.UUCP (09/29/85)
Here's a listing of a couple of little known magazines that might be of
interest to both readers and writers on this net. For readers who want
something off the beaten path, you might like them and the SF field can use
all the breadth (& number of markets) it can get. Most novelists get their
start in the magazine markets and it can be interesting to start following a
writer before he/she starts "really making it."
For writers, these are good markets (particularly FANTASY BOOK) for those
manuscripts that might have gotten a nice rejection note from one of the
bigger mags.
FANTASY BOOK P.O. Box 60126, Pasadena, CA 91106.
$12.00 per year/$3.95 per issue/published quarterly.
I wouldn't get this if I was going to get only *one* magazine,
but if you like fantasy, it might be worth your while.
A relatively new magazine, it's actually been around almost five
years and seems like it might make it. Good mix of all kinds of
fantasy.
This is also a good market for writers who have got decent stories
that haven't sold to ASIMOV's or F&SF.
LAST WAVE (address: don't have an issue on me, see below.)
Price unknown, theoretically published quarterly, actually published
when the editor feels he has enough stories to make an issue.
Well, I don't like this one, but I admire the editor's guts.
The magazine is billed as "the last best hope of speculative
fiction." Very new wave -- which in general I don't care for -- but
for which there isn't much of a market for in the American magazine
market.
If you like New Wave SF, then buy this magazine. If you can't find
it (it's listed in Fiction Writer's Market, or your specialty SF
bookstore can get it for you), then message me. Keep the SF market
open to diversity.
The editor is Scot Edelman, Somewhere In New York.
-- from the bewildered musings of Jim Brunet
decvax!cca!ima!jimb
ucbvax!ucla-cs!ism780!jimb
ihnp4!vortex!ism780!jimb