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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1717198" data-attributes="member: 5171"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I saw that as well, and while I'd love for it to be all fiction, I can kinda understand why they made that choice.  You look at the big'uns, fiction-wise, today, and even they don't have quite as much fiction as they used to.  F&SF has a bunch of reviews, as well as articles and a little column piece that appears to be a collection of in-jokes I find tiresome.  Realms has articles that range from movie reviews to mythology discussions to interviews with a particular artist.  Even Asimov's has a lot of space dedicated to stuff that ain't fiction.Don't get me wrong. I'd love more room for gifted and talented writers like those geniuses in #604 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  But it seems like there's not really a market for that these days, or at least it's hard to convince a publisher that there is one.I think that's fair -- although I'm actually looking forward to "Entertainment Weekly for Geeks".  I liked hearing them talk about how their movie coverage was going to be discussions with the writers and directors,  not the actors (unless the actor was also the director/writer).  While I'm bummed that it takes room away from the fiction, it is nice to have a magazine that covers all aspects of current SF/F entertainment, and that does so with an eye toward accessibility (I think that a lot of the current big magazines have moved toward ivory-tower fiction -- stuff that's very well crafted and deep and literate but not actually entertaining anymore to the average reader -- and I'm really glad that Amazing Stories doesn't seem to be doing that).I dunno.  Two issues is tough to draw a standard from.  I suspect you're right in that it's going to be three to five stories per issue, and that's not as good as "All Fiction" by a long stretch, but better than "No Fiction" by a long stretch, too.  And I can with some surety say that it's open to relative newcomers in the field, whereas the previous incarnation pretty quickly went to big-name-only status.So we'll see. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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