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What is a genre magazine? I googled it and got a list of magazine genres, which I think is not the same thing
by veave 3y ago
What is a genre magazine? I googled it and got a list of magazine genres, which I think is not the same thing
- maxbond 3y agoI think they mean something like say, Lightspeed Magazine is a genre magazine, and the genre is scifi. However, we seem to have saturated their database connections (friends don't let friends have connection pools without bounds/with the wrong bounds, especially not to serve static content), so I haven't read the article. [ETA: Did read it, am now positive.]
- robertlagrant 3y agoFriends don't let friends serve static content in a way that involves a database!
- naniwaduni 3y agoIt's not static, it's Wordpress, and that's something we can complain about once there's an actual alternative in the niches WP fills.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI was more replying to: > friends don't let friends have connection pools without bounds/with the wrong bounds, especially not to serve static content
- pessimizer 3y agoNo, friends just throw a static cache in front of their friend's static content.
- lmm 3y agoIn the same way that friends throw a rug over their friend's dirty floor? Caches are at best a stopgap, and usually cause more problems than they solve.
- A_D_E_P_T 3y agoA literary magazine that focuses on a particular genre of fiction. These typically publish short stories and novellas, but sometimes serialize longer works. (e.g., Dune was serialized in Analog magazine.) The blogger, Neil Clarke, runs a science fiction genre magazine called Clarkesworld. Other science fiction genre magazines include Asimov's, Analog, and F&SF. Other genres, including so-called "literary fiction," all have their own magazines. Apparently none of them are doing particularly well, because short stories are now out of fashion. The trend right now is to make everything as long as possible: Don't write a novella if you can write a novel, and don't write a novel if you can write a three-part (or seven-part!) series.
- the_af 3y agoIt's a shame literary gigantism has become fashionable or at least marketable. Novels are ok, but I've come to despise "book series". It seems everything wants to grow and, if possible, become a Netflix show. Short fiction is a marvelous art form, which requires a precision with plot and/or words that is hard to match. Novels have room to breathe and grow, but there's no such luxury with a short story: every word matters. Few things are as enjoyable as a well-crafted short story.
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- mediumdeviation 3y ago"Genre" here means genre fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_fiction, the sort of mass-market books like romance, fantasy, science fiction and horror. Compare with literary fiction like classics and poetry. It can be used derogatorily to separate commercial literature from "real" literature since genre fiction were usually printed on cheap trade paperbacks, sold in volume and read for entertainment compared to more serious literary and artistic fiction, but I don't think many people today would make that distinction.