The men funding Yes on D, E, F also donated to Senator Tim Scott!
No on D, E, and F, San Francisco! Keep SF democratic!
No on D, E, and F, San Francisco! Keep SF democratic!
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October 12, 2026 at 6:33 PM
The men funding Yes on D, E, F also donated to Senator Tim Scott!
No on D, E, and F, San Francisco! Keep SF democratic!
No on D, E, and F, San Francisco! Keep SF democratic!
"If the new owners want to right MRM’s sinking ship, they need to offer fair contracts and be open with what is going on....If Must Read Magazines doesn’t do this, their company’s legacy will be simple: They’ll have destroyed three of the world’s most famous and beloved SF/F magazines."
My new Genre Grapevine covers the continuing issues with Must Read Magazines, the new owner of Asimov's, Analog and F&SF.
Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the science fiction and fantasy genre with secrecy, silence, bad contracts, and bad statements. www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the science fiction and fantasy genre with secrecy, silence, bad contracts, and bad statements. www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
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October 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
"If the new owners want to right MRM’s sinking ship, they need to offer fair contracts and be open with what is going on....If Must Read Magazines doesn’t do this, their company’s legacy will be simple: They’ll have destroyed three of the world’s most famous and beloved SF/F magazines."
like yeah people in this thread you're doing a great job of listing Female F&SF Authors but that's really not what the guy is on about, he wants Dudes fronting his stories instead of Chicks
October 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
like yeah people in this thread you're doing a great job of listing Female F&SF Authors but that's really not what the guy is on about, he wants Dudes fronting his stories instead of Chicks
I think with the Asimov's and F&SF that may be a good thing 😬 but I hear you, and yes! I find it helpful to hear and even sometimes when authors post that they were invited to a project but had the story rejected, I was like whoa! That was very good context! We keep trying is the main thing 💗🖤
October 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I think with the Asimov's and F&SF that may be a good thing 😬 but I hear you, and yes! I find it helpful to hear and even sometimes when authors post that they were invited to a project but had the story rejected, I was like whoa! That was very good context! We keep trying is the main thing 💗🖤
I do suspect that there is a reason that the Black Library's "bolter porn" subgenre does such massive numbers. It's arguable that as "masculine" writing fades out of literary SF/F circles, it's increasingly found in pulp fiction.
October 12, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I do suspect that there is a reason that the Black Library's "bolter porn" subgenre does such massive numbers. It's arguable that as "masculine" writing fades out of literary SF/F circles, it's increasingly found in pulp fiction.
I think there is an issue, if I can use that word, which is that as the proportion of SF/F readers has tilted to predominantly represent women, the most masculine SF/F writing is harder to find. I dont use "masculine" in a praiseworthy fashion, just "the stuff that is distinctly masculine in taste".
October 12, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I think there is an issue, if I can use that word, which is that as the proportion of SF/F readers has tilted to predominantly represent women, the most masculine SF/F writing is harder to find. I dont use "masculine" in a praiseworthy fashion, just "the stuff that is distinctly masculine in taste".
For sure! I have be trying to place stories in certain magazines since 2015. I have a lot of Clarkesworld rejections. I did get a hold this year which was the first time ever! I never got into Asimovs, F&SF, I've never sold a story to SH, which I'll keep trying on. Rejections happen a lot!
October 12, 2026 at 5:45 PM
For sure! I have be trying to place stories in certain magazines since 2015. I have a lot of Clarkesworld rejections. I did get a hold this year which was the first time ever! I never got into Asimovs, F&SF, I've never sold a story to SH, which I'll keep trying on. Rejections happen a lot!
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🔎 18.3mm (28mm equiv.)
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📍 San Francisco, CA
October 12, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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🔎 18.3mm (28mm equiv.)
⚙️ f/6.3 · 1/100s · ISO 200
📅 October 2, 2026
📍 San Francisco, CA
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🔎 18.3mm (28mm equiv.)
⚙️ f/6.3 · 1/100s · ISO 200
📅 October 2, 2026
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Many of the best SF-F writers are women.
October 12, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Many of the best SF-F writers are women.
Encouraging folks to take some time to read @jasonsanford.bsky.social's latest Genre Grapevine which does a very thorough, but also not too overwhelming job, of explaining the MRM issues for the past few years with Asimov's, Analog, F&SF -- consider the patreon tiers Jason has as well 👇🏻
My new Genre Grapevine covers the continuing issues with Must Read Magazines, the new owner of Asimov's, Analog and F&SF.
Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the science fiction and fantasy genre with secrecy, silence, bad contracts, and bad statements. www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the science fiction and fantasy genre with secrecy, silence, bad contracts, and bad statements. www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
Genre Grapevine: Must Read Magazines MUST Change or They’ll Destroy Asimov’s, Analog and F&SF | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
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October 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Encouraging folks to take some time to read @jasonsanford.bsky.social's latest Genre Grapevine which does a very thorough, but also not too overwhelming job, of explaining the MRM issues for the past few years with Asimov's, Analog, F&SF -- consider the patreon tiers Jason has as well 👇🏻
From the desk of the inimitable @jasonsanford.bsky.social:
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Genre Grapevine: Must Read Magazines MUST Change or They’ll Destroy Asimov’s, Analog and F&SF
Reminder: If you like my journalism or my fiction writing, please consider becoming a paid Patreon supporter.
jasonsanford.substack.com
October 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
From the desk of the inimitable @jasonsanford.bsky.social:
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Yeah, I know that feeling! I built a real collection living in Germany and Mexico -- often aspirational books that are classics of the language.
I finally realized that if I'm unlikely to read literary classics in English, I'm not going to do it in another language 😅 hence reading mostly sf/f now.
I finally realized that if I'm unlikely to read literary classics in English, I'm not going to do it in another language 😅 hence reading mostly sf/f now.
October 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Yeah, I know that feeling! I built a real collection living in Germany and Mexico -- often aspirational books that are classics of the language.
I finally realized that if I'm unlikely to read literary classics in English, I'm not going to do it in another language 😅 hence reading mostly sf/f now.
I finally realized that if I'm unlikely to read literary classics in English, I'm not going to do it in another language 😅 hence reading mostly sf/f now.
I've come to the opinion that sf/f in translation > classics for learning! Classics are hard enough to read even in English, but a pulpy scifi novel I'm kinda familiar with is a good way to just see words being used and pick up patterns.
October 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I've come to the opinion that sf/f in translation > classics for learning! Classics are hard enough to read even in English, but a pulpy scifi novel I'm kinda familiar with is a good way to just see words being used and pick up patterns.
Gavin Newsom is a billionaire bootlicker. He supports Prop 42 to kill California Wealth Tax Proposition 40.
Vote Yes on 40 Wealth Tax & Yes 44
Vote No on 41,42,43,39
SF Connie Chan Congress
No on zionist Scott Wiener who supports Israel & getting billionaire ad support
Yes on B, i No D,E,F
Vote Yes on 40 Wealth Tax & Yes 44
Vote No on 41,42,43,39
SF Connie Chan Congress
No on zionist Scott Wiener who supports Israel & getting billionaire ad support
Yes on B, i No D,E,F
October 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Gavin Newsom is a billionaire bootlicker. He supports Prop 42 to kill California Wealth Tax Proposition 40.
Vote Yes on 40 Wealth Tax & Yes 44
Vote No on 41,42,43,39
SF Connie Chan Congress
No on zionist Scott Wiener who supports Israel & getting billionaire ad support
Yes on B, i No D,E,F
Vote Yes on 40 Wealth Tax & Yes 44
Vote No on 41,42,43,39
SF Connie Chan Congress
No on zionist Scott Wiener who supports Israel & getting billionaire ad support
Yes on B, i No D,E,F
Huh. I guess I replicated the f&sf paperback novel experience I was having when I was a teen.
October 12, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Huh. I guess I replicated the f&sf paperback novel experience I was having when I was a teen.
This is absolute fucking bullshit
just off the top of my head, as a SF/F nerd of the 1980s I read
Anne McCaffery
Robin McKinley
Diane Duane
Mercedes Lackey
Ursula K Leguin
Etc
Yes I ALSO read a lot of David Drake, Larry Niven and so on but the GENDER DIDN'T MATTER
just off the top of my head, as a SF/F nerd of the 1980s I read
Anne McCaffery
Robin McKinley
Diane Duane
Mercedes Lackey
Ursula K Leguin
Etc
Yes I ALSO read a lot of David Drake, Larry Niven and so on but the GENDER DIDN'T MATTER
October 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM
This is absolute fucking bullshit
just off the top of my head, as a SF/F nerd of the 1980s I read
Anne McCaffery
Robin McKinley
Diane Duane
Mercedes Lackey
Ursula K Leguin
Etc
Yes I ALSO read a lot of David Drake, Larry Niven and so on but the GENDER DIDN'T MATTER
just off the top of my head, as a SF/F nerd of the 1980s I read
Anne McCaffery
Robin McKinley
Diane Duane
Mercedes Lackey
Ursula K Leguin
Etc
Yes I ALSO read a lot of David Drake, Larry Niven and so on but the GENDER DIDN'T MATTER
My new Genre Grapevine covers the continuing issues with Must Read Magazines, the new owner of Asimov's, Analog and F&SF.
Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the science fiction and fantasy genre with secrecy, silence, bad contracts, and bad statements. www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the science fiction and fantasy genre with secrecy, silence, bad contracts, and bad statements. www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
Genre Grapevine: Must Read Magazines MUST Change or They’ll Destroy Asimov’s, Analog and F&SF | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
Reminder: If you like my journalism or my fiction writing, please consider becoming a paid Patreon supporter. I deeply love the so-called “
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October 12, 2026 at 2:11 PM
My new Genre Grapevine covers the continuing issues with Must Read Magazines, the new owner of Asimov's, Analog and F&SF.
Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the science fiction and fantasy genre with secrecy, silence, bad contracts, and bad statements. www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the science fiction and fantasy genre with secrecy, silence, bad contracts, and bad statements. www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
Back home and I find that non-stop October is still going. Thus two* things, second thing first.
I've done another blog post on Haverin, this time on what is in it. Will I accidentally admit to my favourite 'child' or just waffle on about a personal milestone?
www.munchkinstein.co.uk/index.php/20...
I've done another blog post on Haverin, this time on what is in it. Will I accidentally admit to my favourite 'child' or just waffle on about a personal milestone?
www.munchkinstein.co.uk/index.php/20...
The Joy of Haverin: A haver – Brian M. Milton, SF&F writing and nonsense
www.munchkinstein.co.uk
October 12, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Back home and I find that non-stop October is still going. Thus two* things, second thing first.
I've done another blog post on Haverin, this time on what is in it. Will I accidentally admit to my favourite 'child' or just waffle on about a personal milestone?
www.munchkinstein.co.uk/index.php/20...
I've done another blog post on Haverin, this time on what is in it. Will I accidentally admit to my favourite 'child' or just waffle on about a personal milestone?
www.munchkinstein.co.uk/index.php/20...
I mentioned to a younger woman who complimented me on this outfit that some folks older than me (I’m 61) have said I’m too old for skirts this short, and she scoffed at the idea. Another reason I love my “found family” of SF/F fandom.
October 12, 2026 at 6:53 AM
I mentioned to a younger woman who complimented me on this outfit that some folks older than me (I’m 61) have said I’m too old for skirts this short, and she scoffed at the idea. Another reason I love my “found family” of SF/F fandom.
I don't get it. I've sold stories, for which someone else supplied illustrations, to multiple magazines, and I've never heard anything before about these being tricky contracts. If I ever sold a story to Asimov's, Analog, or F&SF, I'd be happy for someone else to illustrate it, and ...
October 12, 2026 at 5:33 AM
I don't get it. I've sold stories, for which someone else supplied illustrations, to multiple magazines, and I've never heard anything before about these being tricky contracts. If I ever sold a story to Asimov's, Analog, or F&SF, I'd be happy for someone else to illustrate it, and ...
The whole thing a step away from GW’s house vibe and toward the general overdesigned and form before function approach to sf/f that became dominant in the 00s
October 12, 2026 at 1:25 AM
The whole thing a step away from GW’s house vibe and toward the general overdesigned and form before function approach to sf/f that became dominant in the 00s
Not happy about the SF-Seattle game. What the F was that?!?
Ugh.
Ugh.
October 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Not happy about the SF-Seattle game. What the F was that?!?
Ugh.
Ugh.
Looks like the normal econ critiques are that the instrument is weak (first stage F is small), and maybe that distance from SF covaries with Starbucks openings/distance from Seattle.
But notably, the first negative account here doesn’t seem to even understand the identification issues at play
But notably, the first negative account here doesn’t seem to even understand the identification issues at play
October 11, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Looks like the normal econ critiques are that the instrument is weak (first stage F is small), and maybe that distance from SF covaries with Starbucks openings/distance from Seattle.
But notably, the first negative account here doesn’t seem to even understand the identification issues at play
But notably, the first negative account here doesn’t seem to even understand the identification issues at play
Lost in the finals of this challenge! Deck is mostly good but Submerge is terrible 😅
LWW UR Welder
LWL Turbo DDay
WLW MonoB Saga Storm
LWW Mystic Forge
LWW Ug Omni Tell
LWW Turbo DDay
LWW Colourless Tron
QF WW Lands
SF LWW Sneak and Show
F LWL UR Murk
cc @fireshoes.bsky.social
LWW UR Welder
LWL Turbo DDay
WLW MonoB Saga Storm
LWW Mystic Forge
LWW Ug Omni Tell
LWW Turbo DDay
LWW Colourless Tron
QF WW Lands
SF LWW Sneak and Show
F LWL UR Murk
cc @fireshoes.bsky.social
October 11, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Lost in the finals of this challenge! Deck is mostly good but Submerge is terrible 😅
LWW UR Welder
LWL Turbo DDay
WLW MonoB Saga Storm
LWW Mystic Forge
LWW Ug Omni Tell
LWW Turbo DDay
LWW Colourless Tron
QF WW Lands
SF LWW Sneak and Show
F LWL UR Murk
cc @fireshoes.bsky.social
LWW UR Welder
LWL Turbo DDay
WLW MonoB Saga Storm
LWW Mystic Forge
LWW Ug Omni Tell
LWW Turbo DDay
LWW Colourless Tron
QF WW Lands
SF LWW Sneak and Show
F LWL UR Murk
cc @fireshoes.bsky.social