From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/14/25 7:44 AM, WolfFan wrote:   
   > On Jul 14, 2025, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote   
   > (in article <1052knd$3b9qp$1@dont-email.me>):   
   >   
   >> On 7/13/25 9:23 AM, James Nicoll wrote:   
   >>> In article<1050aj0$2nd45$2@dont-email.me>,   
   >>> Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >>>> I haven't gotten an issue since Summer 2024; is this defunct?   
   >>>   
   >>> Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact,   
   >>> Asimov's Science Fiction, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and   
   >>> The Magazine of Fantasy &  Science Fiction have been acquired by   
   >>> Must Read Magazines. MRM's proposed contract is pretty dire:   
   >>> authors must surrender their moral rights. So, it's not clear   
   >>> the magazines will survive the new owners.   
   >>   
   >> But Analog and Asimov's seem to still be coming out regularly. I suppose   
   >> they could be publishing backlog, but wouldn't all the magazines have   
   >> the same proposed contracts?   
   >>   
   >> F&SF was always an outlier, even back when it was the "Big 6" (Analog,   
   >> Amazing, Fantastic, Galaxy, If, and F&SF--and that tells you how old I   
   >> am!), and it's outlasted four of them, so it has had a good run. I have   
   >> to admit that when it went to the thicker double issues, it never felt   
   >> like the same magazine again to me.   
   >   
   > I used to have the very last issues of Galaxy and If (before If merged with   
   > Galaxy) and a lot of Analog and Asimov’s (including the first issue). I had   
   > some MS&SF and a little Amazing. For various reasons I dropped my subs to   
   > Analog and Asimov’s, but kept the old mags. I also had a lot of   
   > large-format comics (Creepy, Vampirella, the Spirit, Conan, etc.) and a _lot_   
   > of Avengers and X-Men comics. All evaporated in a move 20 years ago. (Do you   
   > know how much 25 years of multiple lines of paper magazines weighs?)   
      
   Yes.   
      
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