Curious

Mar. 27th, 2003 07:43 pm
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Somebody just called my house. I let my dad answer the phone, because these days if people are trying to get through to me they tend to use my mobile. Plus, I was half-way through a rather good story from the latest Asimov's.

After a few seconds, my dad comes to find me. "It's SFX magazine," he says, as he passes me the handset; but when I put it to my ear, there's only a dial tone. So now I'm trying to think of someone who'd (a) want to wind me up by pretending to be SFX and (b) have my home phone number, and I'm failing.

Date: 2003-03-27 12:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mattia.livejournal.com
Weird.

Either way...SFX? Ew.

Date: 2003-03-27 12:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com
Either way...SFX? Ew.

Why?

I know there's all sorts of stories about them being nasty to do business with, and I wouldn't know anything about that, but as a magazine I think they're pretty damn good at what they do. They could be a little tighter on the spoiler front, but they're better than they used to be.

Date: 2003-03-27 12:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] despotliz.livejournal.com
Also, I'm yet to find a magazine which covers TV, film, books and comics in one go. And they're not as bad on the jms-slagging and the gratuitous scantily clad women any more, and they seem to have less big obvious huge spoilers than Dreamwatch these days.

Date: 2003-03-27 11:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mattia.livejournal.com
OK. They've improved, then. I'm thinking the Bab5 fans I know have negatively affected my opinion of them.

Re:

Date: 2003-03-27 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mattia.livejournal.com
Oh, dunno. I've got some mixed feelings there. They're an OK mag, better than many others (like, say, dreamwatch), perhaps the best mainstream 'genre' mag. I'm not too terribly impressed with some of the reviewing skillz (the shorter reivewlets, in general) and find that I can find better thoughtful articles, oped pieces, etc. for free, online. Maybe it's just that I don't feel they're great value for my money.

As a general rule, that is. To their credit, they do cover the MEverse rather well indeed.

Date: 2003-03-27 01:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowking.livejournal.com
Best magazine on the market. Dave Langford and Simon Pegg.

Re:

Date: 2003-03-27 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mattia.livejournal.com
They write in it?

To be honest, I haven't read a copy in well over a year and a half.

re: Simon Pegg

Date: 2003-03-27 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] applez.livejournal.com
(bowing) We are not worthy! We are not worthy! (con't)

:-)

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