![]() ![]() ![]() population would be 3.257 million people, so even if there were 50,000 science fiction short story fans, that would only be less than 1/65th of 1% of the population. There’s no telling how many readers there are for the many online magazines. The three top print magazines, Analog, Asimov’s SF, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction all have roughly 10,000-20,000 buyers each. ![]() The audience for them is greater than poetry readers, but probably not by much. It has two of my favorite recent reads: “ Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (try the audio) and “ Mika Model” by Paolo Bacigalupi (author of The Windup Girl.)įew people read short stories. By the way, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven is currently available for the Kindle for 99 cents. I’ve counted 9 scheduled for 2018, with two already released ( The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan). Science fiction has had one or more annual best-of-the-year anthologies ever since. They were following the tradition of The Best American Short Stories anthology that first appeared in 1915. Dikty came out with The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 from Fredrick Fell publishers that collected the best science fiction stories that appeared in magazines during 1948. By James Wallace Harris, Wednesday, April 11, 2018īack in 1949 editors Everett F. ![]()
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