Are Today’s SF Magazines Too Wide-Ranging And Eclectic For Most Readers?

“ I think almost all of the adult respectablescience fictionand fantasy cartridge have the same exact job which is that they ’re eclectic . And , eclectic product have a much toilsome prison term finding an audience who will come after them . I ’m astounded at the fantasy and science fiction readership , for example , who is willing to read both my story and a Peter Beagle story . I think that those satisfy very dissimilar experiential urges , and so hold a magazine that caters to both my penning and Peter Beagle ’s writing means that you have to have a very special reader : someone who ’s unforced to essentially genre saltation and experience startle inside of a cartridge clip . I do n’t think most people are in reality like that . I think when we seem at consumer magazines and stuff and nonsense like that we see people narrowing themselves down importantly . I think that the magazines were conceived at the clock time when an astounding chronicle simply was enough , but now I cogitate that the readership has shifted a good deal and so that now you have people who are specifically , “ I ’m really only a steampunk reader , I do n’t really cross over much other stuff . ” “ I really am a military SF reader , I do n’t really cross over into much other material . ” And so , I think that any generalist fiction clip has a difficult route there . I have in mind , I do n’t eff what other referee are like , perhaps I ’m just stereotyping off of myself , but I frankly do n’t like to be surprise by the next tarradiddle I pick up . I kind of make love what experience I ’m look for . There ’s a grounds why I return to Elmore Leonard novels or something , because I really wish the Elmore Leonard experience , and I require more Elmore Leonard - corresponding experiences . I reckon it ’s interesting that a magazine like Analog which in many way is talk of being extremely old schooling and sort of the driest side of science fiction is also the one with the strongest readership , and I think that ’s because it ’s unaired to providing a eubstance of experience from level to story . ” — Paolo BacigalupiinTor.com ’s Geek ’s Guide To The Galaxy podcast , viaLibraryThing

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