tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post3481305348418649606..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFM: THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE, THE SCREAM FACTORY and SCIENCE FICTION EYE (and MONAD) among the vanished critical magazines...Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-3539956595755016012016-11-25T07:38:22.112-05:002016-11-25T07:38:22.112-05:00Hi Todd
Hope you are able to find this comment. H...Hi Todd<br /><br />Hope you are able to find this comment. Here's my FFB for today:<br /><br />Satyanveshi (Seeker of Truth) Vyomkesh by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay<br /><br />http://inkquilletc.blogspot.in/2016/11/forgotten-book-satyanveshi-vyomkesh-by.html<br /><br />Thanks.neerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01986509319841061021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-53840138780258549062016-11-21T03:44:09.203-05:002016-11-21T03:44:09.203-05:00Richard--it's indicative of my Not Seeing them...Richard--it's indicative of my Not Seeing them at the time than I'd forgotten there were two notable JDMcD fanzines. Nowadays, at least one blog. Moonstone Booksellers being one of those impressive bookstores that die with their owners...Gene's Books in King of Prussia, PA, being another example...I, too, have always had more than enough to read...but the unslakable thirst for more being the Collector's Deadly Sin and Not So Secret Ecstasy...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-81261588376546524382016-11-21T03:35:40.921-05:002016-11-21T03:35:40.921-05:00Kelly--a quarter century in the past can do that. ...Kelly--a quarter century in the past can do that. By the time I met Marcia Muller a couple of years after that photo of her, she looked a bit younger than she does there.<br /><br />Well, Prashant, the vast amount of material I didn't see, but did hear of, certainly made me feel similarly...these days, you can see examples of some online, and their online heirs in the cited cases...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-35970601576532014672016-11-21T02:08:48.031-05:002016-11-21T02:08:48.031-05:00Todd, I'm the odd man out wanting to get in! T...Todd, I'm the odd man out wanting to get in! This was a fascinating read of sf, fantasy and mystery magazines. I'm familiar with "The Armchair Detective" though I have never read one.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-32398905499118040212016-11-20T15:48:09.025-05:002016-11-20T15:48:09.025-05:00Elizabeth George looks like a teenager on that cov...Elizabeth George looks like a teenager on that cover.Kelly Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01752857506190488860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-9976223663936481822016-11-20T13:20:21.712-05:002016-11-20T13:20:21.712-05:00Yes, I was a member of DAPA-EM (a mystery Amateur ...Yes, I was a member of DAPA-EM (a mystery Amateur Press Association "Elementary My Dear APA"), I joined around mailing 52 or so after moving to Washington and stayed to the end. Bob Napier, Crider, Geoff Bradley, Jeff and Ann Smith, the Len & June Moffatt, George Kelley, Art Scott and a bunch of others through the decades. I enjoyed Napier's letter zine and contributed now and then. I hadn't thought of the Moonstone Bookcellars in years. I loved that place. Once I left Capitol Hill in 87 for downtown, I could walk to Moonstone on my lunch hour. I never took the JDM zines either the Shine's or the Moffatt's and regret that. But then I always regret what I missed even though I grabbed enough to keep me occupied and amused.Richard Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770090814220403413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-20816117210872125012016-11-20T11:43:24.143-05:002016-11-20T11:43:24.143-05:00Well, OUTWORLDS wrapping up is overstatement...but...Well, OUTWORLDS wrapping up is overstatement...but it was slowing down, and never much tried for newsstand distribution like most of these others did...MIMOSA was my primary Big Deal, null-newsstand fanzine in the 1990s...and I'm not sure if it was FACTSHEET FIVE or something else that put me onto the Lynches' work...in fact, I should add F5 to the citations above...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-36052613712092923692016-11-19T19:35:35.773-05:002016-11-19T19:35:35.773-05:00Walker--it's tough for a film magazine that is...Walker--it's tough for a film magazine that isn't fluffy to get by, and the irregular publication schedule wouldn't encourage advertisers. <br /><br />Richard--I still need to look at CADS...my chauvinism when it came to sticking with US magazines above was in part driven by not being able to find the UK equivalents in those days, except via mail order, particularly after Moonstone Bookcellars went out of business in my DC-area years (1984-96). Seems that Ed Gorman...probably with Robert Randisi, though perhaps before he got involved, even sent out a slim issue or two of the beta of MYSTERY SCENCE through DAPA-EM as a part of Robert Napier's mailing package with his fanzine...were you in on those? Even OUTWORLDS was not something I got to see, though it was wrapping up as I discovered fanzines in 1978...nor was I aware of the John D. MacDonald magazine, though I was aware of the Sherlockian items from the Irregulars and others, even by the early '90s...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-22093514771054054362016-11-19T17:53:24.589-05:002016-11-19T17:53:24.589-05:00I subscribed and enjoyed several of the publicatio...I subscribed and enjoyed several of the publications mentioned. For pure pleasure, I loved getting SF Review and the other Geis publication. I need to dig up the box with those issues. I subscribed to Locus early and Mystery Scene--even the isue or two that were newsprint. Fantasy Newsletter I enjoyed. I recall Karl Wagner had a column there. The Armchair Detective I find myself looking at more now that I've had time to catch up on writers who had long interviews in TAD but at the time I had not discovered them. Science Fiction Eye I watched being born as for years I was in a writers group started by Ted White. Steve Brown was a member, as were at various times Dave Bishoff, Ed Byers, Charles Sheffield, Kathleen Ann Goonan, and Elizabeth Hand. I was sorry to see Eye discontinued after Steve and his significant other moved to Asheville, NC where they had a couple of thriving businesses to keep them busy. I would recommend Crime and Detective Stories (CADS) published in England by Geoff Bradley. The focus is primarily on British writers but includes film and radio adaptations as well as print. CADS has published more than 70 issues and is still going strong.Richard Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770090814220403413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-24064840463777215342016-11-19T00:27:02.678-05:002016-11-19T00:27:02.678-05:00I have to admit that I was surprised when VIDEO WA...I have to admit that I was surprised when VIDEO WATCHDOG went out of business. I even received a bankruptcy notice from the Lucas' lawyer.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-43222352587625161462016-11-18T14:59:01.924-05:002016-11-18T14:59:01.924-05:00SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW introduced me to Ed Gorman,...SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW introduced me to Ed Gorman, and so many others. ALGOL had "Richard Lupoff's Book Week" the review column; and Frederik Pohl's and Robert Silverberg's columns. NECROFILE had a column from Ramsey Campbell before the now also defunct VIDEO WATCHDOG did. Fritz Leiber had his columns in FANTASY NEWSLETTER and LOCUS (and, probably, AMRA. There's all kinds of wonder that resided in those magazines...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-13683926588162772082016-11-18T14:21:29.435-05:002016-11-18T14:21:29.435-05:00I can only find two of my issues of ARMCHAIR DETEC...I can only find two of my issues of ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE now, I must have lost the rest in a move long ago. Reading them is very nostalgic.TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-68905237261473257912016-11-18T13:58:53.259-05:002016-11-18T13:58:53.259-05:00Like Sergio, I loved THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE. I...Like Sergio, I loved THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE. I'd drop everything when it arrived and would read it straight through!Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-12810283620648871582016-11-18T09:08:41.368-05:002016-11-18T09:08:41.368-05:00And you notably contribute to MYSTERY*FILE, you sh...And you notably contribute to MYSTERY*FILE, you should mention if modesty doesn't forbid. SF EYE could get a bit clubbish at its worst, and sometimes the naivete of the (in other matters) sophisticates contributing was a bit exasperating, but I enjoyed it more than nearly any other magazine of its sort...and contributed to it trivially, which is more than I can say about TAD or TSF. I certainly hope you caught up with MONAD, which I suspect you'd like better. Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-82710628483310950192016-11-18T07:22:24.606-05:002016-11-18T07:22:24.606-05:00I never got into the Science Fiction Eye but I hav...I never got into the Science Fiction Eye but I have all the Armchair Detectives and many of The Scream Factory issues. Mystery*File has been around forever in form or another and Steve Lewis is doing a great job with it as an online magazine. I look at it everyday.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-10754236408503068492016-11-18T06:31:23.394-05:002016-11-18T06:31:23.394-05:00I'm glad to have, in one form or another, the ...I'm glad to have, in one form or another, the survivors we have today...but it's hard not to miss those which are gone, even as THE RAP SHEET and FILE 770 continue along with MYSTERY*FILE, for example, in electronic form. Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-79043349490109719112016-11-18T04:52:26.088-05:002016-11-18T04:52:26.088-05:00I used to love THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE and have sev...I used to love THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE and have several of the issues you've posted here - thanks Todd. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)https://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com