Asimov's
01/10/2002 . Source: Rod MacDonald 

And for October's site of the month, we turn to the famous print magazine website, Asimov's.

And for October's site of the month, we turn to the famous print magazine website, Asimov's.

These kinds of websites wouldn't exist on their own - were it not for their sister (or brother) TV channel, magazine ... add the offline media property of your choice here.

However, when adding things up, good material on the Net is scarce and this site definitely fall into the quality category.

There's the usual stuff about how to subscribe, how to write for them and what's within the magazine. Quite a lot appears about past content and there are an abundance of links about writers, magazines and societies.

I found the latter very interesting. An editorial by Gardner Dozois (the magazine editor) gives an account of his early reading experiences and how they shaped his life. Robert Silverberg provides reflections entitled 'the quality of pity is not folded'.

However, the best part for me was the book review section by Norman Spinrad - they were in-depth, realistic and well-written.

A section on the net provides interesting comment, even some good words about Crowsnest, (not that we need any convincing ourselves, but nonetheless it's good to know that others appreciate us).

Never do you get far from the message that you should subscribe to the magazine but surprise etc, this is the aim of the website.

Not everyone likes to read the magazine in paper form, so you'll be please to know that this magazine and a host of others are available as single issues or a subscription in downloaded form?

Saves space on your bookshelf.

Rod MacDonald

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