All these replies,and no mention of the Analog Science Fiction and Fact,or Issac Asimov's Science Fiction monthly mags?
BEST damn reading you can get in the mail each month.
So good I have even given a years subscription to both to the children of friends that I knew to be very bright. So far I am batting a big fat 0 on this. One is in the Air Force as enlisted swine,and his sister who also got gift subscriptions is a bar bitch with an impressive arrest record. I doubt either did anything but throw them away.
Lost contact with the other families.
@sneakypete When I was 12 I discovered Asimov’s SF magazine. And I read it religiously until I was in college. When I was 13 I submitted a story I wrote to them. Naturally they rejected it. It was my first rejection letter. But it made me cry. Like I said, I was really young, and it was the first.
So I wrote back to them telling them how hurt I was and that I was 13. And here’s the beauty thing. I got a reply from them, on official stationary etc, stating that I shouldn’t let this get me down, I just just keep writing and I had a very good chance of becoming a writer when I was an adult. And the dang thing was signed by the man himself, Dr. Asimov!
Now of course I know better, it was signed with one of those instant pens and written by someone who worked there. I seriously doubt the good Doctor had time to write to one of his fans. But at the time it comforted me, and I kept on writing , instead of just quitting, like I was going to.
I didn’t know these magazines were still in print, I’m going to check them out. Thanks!