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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: (Tears) Destinies Aug--Sept '79 edited by Jim Baen
Date: 8 Sep 2024 20:52:29 -0000
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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In article <vbkmgj$453$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <vbkbeg$1uo5j$1@dont-email.me>,
>Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 08/09/2024 07.52, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> Destinies Aug-Sept '79  (Destinies, volume 4) edited by Jim Baen
>>> 
>>> In which I am nostalgic about an old magazine and the store from
>>> which i bought it.
>>> 
>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/every-sha-la-la-la
>>
>>Isn't a "paperback magazine" just what Knight was doing with his _Orbit_
>>series a decade earlier?
>
>Orbit got some magazine-like qualities later on, I think, but Knight
>sold it as anthologies, which meant it had longer shelf-life than 
>Destinies issues did. 

Evergreen Review seems the canonical example, though non-SF.
--scott


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