STARLOG ceases print publication
Friday, April 10, 2009
Sad news today, as the sorry economy fells a beloved geek institution. After 33 years of publication, the science-fiction and fantasy news magazine Starlog has announced it's "temporarily" ceased print publication, going online exclusively.
With daily news, reviews, features, and more, STARLOG.com is your home for sci-fi on the web.
In addition, our new Digital store (launching next month), available on our network of online sites including STARLOG and FANGORIA, will soon feature beautifully restored digital editions of the entire run of STARLOG magazine.
We feel that these new technological ventures are very much in step with the futuristic concept of STARLOG, and will carry the brand forward into the new ideology of the 21st century and beyond.
It is also at this time that we announce the temporary cessation of the current run of STARLOG as a print magazine. After 33 years, and considering the present state of the economy, we feel its time for a major revamp and will be temporarily discontinuing publication while the model and redesign of the magazine are contemplated and executed.
As TV writer and noted fandom personality Mark Evanier notes, it is rather unlikely the magazine will actually return in printed form:
I have no inside info here but I would imagine that its many contributors and fans are taking "temporary cessation" to mean what it usually means in the publishing world: "Cancelled, probably forever." I can't think of too many publications that ever left the newsstands and returned, at least under the same ownership. Issue #374 is the last in the paper format and from here on, they'll try and make a go of it online.
With daily news, reviews, features, and more, STARLOG.com is your home for sci-fi on the web.
In addition, our new Digital store (launching next month), available on our network of online sites including STARLOG and FANGORIA, will soon feature beautifully restored digital editions of the entire run of STARLOG magazine.
We feel that these new technological ventures are very much in step with the futuristic concept of STARLOG, and will carry the brand forward into the new ideology of the 21st century and beyond.
It is also at this time that we announce the temporary cessation of the current run of STARLOG as a print magazine. After 33 years, and considering the present state of the economy, we feel its time for a major revamp and will be temporarily discontinuing publication while the model and redesign of the magazine are contemplated and executed.
As TV writer and noted fandom personality Mark Evanier notes, it is rather unlikely the magazine will actually return in printed form:
I have no inside info here but I would imagine that its many contributors and fans are taking "temporary cessation" to mean what it usually means in the publishing world: "Cancelled, probably forever." I can't think of too many publications that ever left the newsstands and returned, at least under the same ownership. Issue #374 is the last in the paper format and from here on, they'll try and make a go of it online.
We'll admit it, we haven't actually seen an issue of Starlog since we were about 14. Still, it was nice to know they were still out there, chasing down the latest genre entertainment news and reporting on it with enthusiam. Sites like ours stand in the shadow cast by Starlog.
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