Health of the Field: Print Magazines
Steve Carper, a regular in the TangentOnline newsgroups, notices this is the first year none of the Nebula awards(R) went to print magazines.
Just two years ago, I remember hearing Gardner Dozois declaring the field to be as healthy–if not healthier–than ever. His criteria was awards. Asimov’s was raking them in, expecially the Hugos.
Now Gardner is gone; the Nebs, at least, are going to venues other than print mags; and SciFi.com finally has enough readers to get a story nominated for the Hugos.
As Ellen Datlow says, “Now that’s kind of scary.”