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> probably always been the case Yeah was thinking that. Not sure what's changed. sci-fi authors used to get started in magazines, with limited page count, whic
by hyperpallium 7y ago
> probably always been the case
Yeah was thinking that. Not sure what's changed. sci-fi authors used to get started in magazines, with limited page count, which the internet is killing/has killed.
I have the impression authors now jump straight to novels (with no short-story market, what alternative?)
OTOH Andy Weir arguably got his start with The Egg https://highexistence.com/images/view/the-egg-by-andy-weir/ https://highexistence.com/images/view/the-egg-by-andy-weir/ and Ted Chiang here got a short story optioned into a movie.
- ghaff 7y agoTed Chiang has a number of good short stories. (And a collection of them.) With a few exceptions, I've never really been into reading the SF magazines so I don't have much a first hand perspective. But I assume that, as you say, they're even less lucrative and more marginal than they used to be.