From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/14/25 5:53 PM, Gary McGath wrote:   
   > On 7/14/25 6:04 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   >> 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'm reminded of Mike Rubin's "Three Laws of Thermo":   
   >   
   > I see all these rejections are driving you mad;   
   > Even F&SF won't take science this bad;   
   > Have some friendly advice: sell to Omni, my lad.   
   >   
   > (Anyone remember Omni?)   
   >   
   I still have the T-shirt they gave out (in 1982 at Chicon IV?) that says   
   "A SPACESHIP HAS LANDED ON EARTH / IT CAME FROM ROCKWELL" with a picture   
   of the shuttle on the front, and "OMNI / The Magazine of Tomorrow /   
   Charting Man's Progess / Through the 21st Century" on the back. In fact,   
   I wore it a couple of days ago. I also had some OMNI plastic bags (from   
   the same convention?), but I gave them out to the panelists on the OMNI   
   panel at LoneStarCon 3.   
      
   --   
   Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn   
   Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking   
   to those who do not wish to hear it. --Samuel Butler   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)