Vector Has Landed

[coalescent]

Waiting for me when I got home this evening:



Vector 245: Movements and Manifestos
Frequently Asked Questions about Mundane SF by Trent Walters
A Refusal To Sign the Mundane Manifesto by Ian McDonald
No More New World Orders by Martin Lewis
Not Really New, Not Really Weird by Norman Spinrad
Infernokrusher: A Brief and Terrible History by Meghan McCarron
Archipelago: Appreciations from the ED SF Project, by Claire Light, Abigail Nussbaum, Paul Kincaid and Elizabeth Bear
First Impressions: Book Reviews edited by Paul Billinger
and The New X: a column by Graham Sleight

Yes, it's the first issue of Vector to be co-edited by greengolux and myself, complete with first-issue typos. Given that we've been editors-in-waiting for about a year, this is quite exciting, and we're proud of the lineup--many thanks to everyone who contributed. Although obviously, future issues are going to be even better.

A proper website, with some online content and everything, will be along Real Soon Now. In the meantime, Vector is available to BSFA members (along with some other magazines), so you know it only makes sense to join. Contributers can expect to be hassled for their real-world addresses so that we can send them copies.

In summary: huzzah!

Comments

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Since I felt like crap this morning, I did what I euphemistcally call "working from home", so I hadn't stepped out into my own hallway all day. Your entry prompted me to go out to find the delivery where my upstairs neigbour had laid it, by my door.

I was just gong to flip through so I could say nice, but I stopped to read Elizabeth Bear's appreciation of Micahel Bishop's "Bears Discover Smut". I haven't done that with a Vector for ages, so congratulations! I would just like to ask you to be careful about print size for us elderlies: the Spinrad article text looked a bit small. I appreciate you had a lot to cram into four and a bit pages.

Finally, what a strange smell Matrix has this month!

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I was just gong to flip through so I could say nice, but I stopped to read Elizabeth Bear's appreciation of Micahel Bishop's "Bears Discover Smut".

Our work here is done. (Or just beginning, whichever.)

I would just like to ask you to be careful about print size for us elderlies

Yes, we're aware of that. We misguesstimated the words-per-page count for the issue. It's a learning curve. :)