Back in the late 1970's, I became aware of this magazine due to its converge of many science fiction productions, especially Star Trek (from which it was born from in 1976). In late 1979, I began buying the then monthly (it started out as a quarterly) magazine because it had the episode guide of Battlestar Galactica, which was becoming a hallmark of the magazine - as there was no internet and TV Tome to speak of). For probably about 10 years or more, I got Starlog monthly -I had a subscription to it for a number of years.
As the years went on, and the magazine got more expensive (it was not supported by ad revenues) I began to find alternative resources for my love of science fiction info.
By the mid 90's, with access to the internet, the magazine was no longer seen by me as a good resource for latest info on sci fi movies and TV. I still looked through it, but most of the info I got was being gleamed from other resources.
Now, I occasionally go through the magazine at work. I still find, once in a while, a great article to read. And at 7.99 an issue (I think I bought my first one for like 1.95), it has to be a special issue for me to actually buy it.
Now the grandfather of all science fiction orientated magazine (celebrating 30 years in 2006), I will promote it once more as it has done a brilliant article on Rob Caves Star Trek: Hidden Frontier web based fan series. It’s a detailed story about the beginnings of Hidden Frontier, through to its end last summer and talks about the new projects, including Odyssey, The Helena Chronicles and crossover - The Orphans of War - with the Scottish fan series Star Trek: Intrepid.
Of all the stuff done over the last year or so with HF (stories on the NBC Today Show, a story done by the local ABC affiliate here, the LA Times article, and the recent British GMTV story that featured KTLA’s Ross King), this one article boiled everything down into a cohesive story about the web series. Writer Daniel Dickholtz wrote a great article, and one that really is fair and does not make us look silly. He also got all the details right. Got to love that.
Thanks Daniel.
As the years went on, and the magazine got more expensive (it was not supported by ad revenues) I began to find alternative resources for my love of science fiction info.
By the mid 90's, with access to the internet, the magazine was no longer seen by me as a good resource for latest info on sci fi movies and TV. I still looked through it, but most of the info I got was being gleamed from other resources.
Now, I occasionally go through the magazine at work. I still find, once in a while, a great article to read. And at 7.99 an issue (I think I bought my first one for like 1.95), it has to be a special issue for me to actually buy it.
Now the grandfather of all science fiction orientated magazine (celebrating 30 years in 2006), I will promote it once more as it has done a brilliant article on Rob Caves Star Trek: Hidden Frontier web based fan series. It’s a detailed story about the beginnings of Hidden Frontier, through to its end last summer and talks about the new projects, including Odyssey, The Helena Chronicles and crossover - The Orphans of War - with the Scottish fan series Star Trek: Intrepid.
Of all the stuff done over the last year or so with HF (stories on the NBC Today Show, a story done by the local ABC affiliate here, the LA Times article, and the recent British GMTV story that featured KTLA’s Ross King), this one article boiled everything down into a cohesive story about the web series. Writer Daniel Dickholtz wrote a great article, and one that really is fair and does not make us look silly. He also got all the details right. Got to love that.
Thanks Daniel.
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