Hello, Here is a 900 word review of the Realms of Fantasy magazine. I hope it's something you like and can use. Thanks! {:-) Jeff Redmond 1335 Beechwood NE ...
Ruth Davidson -- Great way to start November. I do work for my local school district but not as an educator professional. Educator IMO is anyone who educates....
The members of RFFOrg are doing an online poll: Should Reading for the Future form a nonprofit corporation and obtain IRS 501(c)3 status? The poll closes...
When you say the largest in the world, are you referring to circulation or to number of pages per issue? I was intrigued by this and wondered what the ...
Bellamy, Maria-Englis...
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Nov 1, 2005 4:32 pm
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Hi Maria, Perhaps both.... Each issue is now well over 100 pages. And there are more than 100,000 readers (esp subscribers) worldwide. So I don't mind writing...
Hi Ruth, Let's see. I wrote some materials for a disk once. I donated a story for the RFF website for use in classrooms. I was instructor of record for the...
Lynda Williams
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Nov 2, 2005 2:58 am
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This website of booklists was mentioned on the Kentucky library listserv. I was startled to see no mention of science fiction in the Genre list. I wish we...
Bellamy, Maria-Englis...
mbellamy@...
Nov 2, 2005 4:44 pm
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As long as we're discussing new SF markets, let me mention a few below. But of course the big news is the almost depression-level recession in SF publishing....
Is it possible that the current state of sf publishing is linked to the state of the US space program? ... From: rff@yahoogroups.com...
Bellamy, Maria-Englis...
mbellamy@...
Nov 3, 2005 4:19 pm
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An important discussion. We intend to continue it at the 2006 Campbell Conference here at the University of Kansas: what is the situation of SF publishing...
Maria Bellamy wrote, ... Are we talking about just science fiction in the USA? Because it seems to me that the space programs in Europe and China are doing...
Here's another possible cause and effect. With the almost non-existence of the manned US space program, there's a sub sub-SF genre of plucky Americans in the...
The idea that science fiction's currently declining share of the market being linked to the current decline of the space program is an interesting one. I've...
DocJam00@...
Nov 4, 2005 4:52 pm
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Tremendously insightful. Add this to recent analyses by Berman and Brin that also deplored the absence of innovative and positive SF. I can't help...
Greetings, ... I sometimes wonder if it's really about the lack of transcendence in science fiction or the greater amount of transcendence in fantasy. Does...
... I believe -- and tackle in my own writing -- that the important things for SF to address are no longer techie ones. I purposefully create a universe in...
Lynda Williams
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Nov 5, 2005 5:08 pm
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Greetings, ... (I'll just point out that what I actually wrote was deleted.) ... To restate my argument: before we even start to discuss such issues, I think...
One of the great temptations is to lump all "others" together in ways that make strawmen to oppose, instead of real thinkers, with subtle views. Another ...
David Brin
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Nov 6, 2005 11:40 pm
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... No heart and soul, I'd say, is a big part of the problem. Maybe that's what Berman and Brin meant by lack of innovation and positive SF. My work addresses...
