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  best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions burlwood <kegepet@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 20:37 -0700
    Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-10-17 04:19 -0700
      Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions burlwood <kegepet@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 08:05 -0700
        Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-10-17 09:12 -0600
          Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2015-10-17 16:06 +0000
            Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2015-10-17 11:19 -0700
              Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-10-17 14:33 -0400
                Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2015-10-17 21:06 +0000
                  Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2015-10-17 16:21 -0700
              Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-10-17 19:37 +0000
                Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2015-10-17 16:22 -0400
                  Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-10-17 16:46 -0400
          Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 23:50 -0400
        Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2015-10-17 15:54 +0000
        Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-10-17 14:34 -0700
          Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 12:02 -0400
    Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2015-10-17 12:45 +0100
    Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-10-17 23:35 -0700
      Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-10-17 23:39 -0700
        Re: best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-10-21 22:25 -0700

#424817 — best SF magazine for sf humor story submissions

Wow, my first usenet post in like 10 years. Anyway, I just finished an SF humor story, and I was just wondering which of the magazines would be best to submit it to. Is any one particularly welcoming of SF humor stories? Thanks.

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#424824

On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 9:38:07 PM UTC-6, burlwood wrote:
> Wow, my first usenet post in like 10 years. Anyway, I just finished an SF humor 
> story, and I was just wondering which of the magazines would be best to submit 
> it to. Is any one particularly welcoming of SF humor stories? Thanks.

Well, I have good news for you.

Both "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" (hmm, they've changed the name) and 
"The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" are *still being published*. So 
at least there _are_ magazines in existence to which you might attempt to 
submit your story.

John Savard

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#424829

> Well, I have good news for you.
> 
> Both "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" (hmm, they've changed the name) and 
> "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" are *still being published*. So 
> at least there _are_ magazines in existence to which you might attempt to 
> submit your story.
>
I was under the impression Analog dealt primarily with hard scifi, and that Asimov's would be more appropriate for humor, unless my info is outdated.

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#424831

burlwood <kegepet@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Well, I have good news for you.
>> 
>> Both "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" (hmm, they've changed the name) and 
>> "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" are *still being published*. So 
>> at least there _are_ magazines in existence to which you might attempt to 
>> submit your story.
>>
>I was under the impression Analog dealt primarily with hard scifi, and that Asimov's would be more appropriate for humor, unless my info is outdated.

I haven't read ASF for a decade or two.  But "back in the day", short
humour stuff was common in "probability zero".  There may have been
longer ones -- I don't remember.
-- 
We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.

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#424836

In article <d8f6raFce4vU2@mid.individual.net>,
Greg Goss  <gossg@gossg.org> wrote:
>burlwood <kegepet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Well, I have good news for you.
>>> 
>>> Both "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" (hmm, they've changed the name) and 
>>> "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" are *still being
>published*. So 
>>> at least there _are_ magazines in existence to which you might attempt to 
>>> submit your story.
>>>
>>I was under the impression Analog dealt primarily with hard scifi, and
>that Asimov's would be more appropriate for humor, unless my info is
>outdated.
>
>I haven't read ASF for a decade or two.  But "back in the day", short
>humour stuff was common in "probability zero".  There may have been
>longer ones -- I don't remember.
>-- 

Oh, there were, I mean ancient history now, but the Kuttner "Gallager"
stories, Brown's "Placet Is A Crazy Place", many Retief stores,
Chap Fooey Rider, Robinson's "Callahan" stories and "Half an Oaf"..
-- 
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columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..

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#424838

On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12:06:07 PM UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan>
wrote:
[snip discussion of humorous SF in _ASF_]
> Oh, there were, I mean ancient history now, but the Kuttner "Gallager"
> stories, Brown's "Placet Is A Crazy Place", many Retief stores,
> Chap Fooey Rider, Robinson's "Callahan" stories and "Half an Oaf"..

"*many* Retief Stories"? (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1478)

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#424840

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:19:30 -0700 (PDT), Ahasuerus
<ahasuerus@email.com> wrote
in<news:dd304754-d3d8-4b58-a37a-145e68b511e6@googlegroups.com>
in rec.arts.sf.written:

> On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12:06:07 PM UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan>
> wrote:

> [snip discussion of humorous SF in _ASF_]

>> Oh, there were, I mean ancient history now, but the
>> Kuttner "Gallager" stories, Brown's "Placet Is A Crazy
>> Place", many Retief stores, Chap Fooey Rider,
>> Robinson's "Callahan" stories and "Half an Oaf"..

> "*many* Retief Stories"? (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1478)

Pretty Iffy assertion.  (I did spot one.)

Brian
-- 
It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their
holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered
rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,
haggisss.

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#424847

In article <15b07zxqyy9hl.1w94z927c4gsw$.dlg@40tude.net>,
Brian M. Scott <b.scott@csuohio.edu> wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:19:30 -0700 (PDT), Ahasuerus
><ahasuerus@email.com> wrote
>in<news:dd304754-d3d8-4b58-a37a-145e68b511e6@googlegroups.com>
>in rec.arts.sf.written:
>
>> On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12:06:07 PM UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan>
>> wrote:
>
>> [snip discussion of humorous SF in _ASF_]
>
>>> Oh, there were, I mean ancient history now, but the
>>> Kuttner "Gallager" stories, Brown's "Placet Is A Crazy
>>> Place", many Retief stores, Chap Fooey Rider,
>>> Robinson's "Callahan" stories and "Half an Oaf"..
>
>> "*many* Retief Stories"? (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1478)
>
>Pretty Iffy assertion.  (I did spot one.)
>
>Brian
>-- 

Hmm.  I'm sure I read some there, but he doess seem to have been mostly
an "If" franchaise.  What was the one with the Groaci who was now a
Terran citizen and a good guy but everyone thought he was the villian?
And where was "The Hoob Melon Crisis" first published?  If I'm reading
ISFDB right it points me to a paperback, but I thought I remembered a
magazine version?
-- 
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columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..

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#424857

On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 5:06:16 PM UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan>
wrote:
> In article <15b07zxqyy9hl.1w94z927c4gsw$.dlg@40tude.net>,
> Brian M. Scott <b.scott@csuohio.edu> wrote:
> >On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:19:30 -0700 (PDT), Ahasuerus
> ><ahasuerus@email.com> wrote
> >in<news:dd304754-d3d8-4b58-a37a-145e68b511e6@googlegroups.com>
> >in rec.arts.sf.written:
> >
> >> On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12:06:07 PM UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan>
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> [snip discussion of humorous SF in _ASF_]
> >
> >>> Oh, there were, I mean ancient history now, but the
> >>> Kuttner "Gallager" stories, Brown's "Placet Is A Crazy
> >>> Place", many Retief stores, Chap Fooey Rider,
> >>> Robinson's "Callahan" stories and "Half an Oaf"..
> >
> >> "*many* Retief Stories"? (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1478)
> >
> >Pretty Iffy assertion.  (I did spot one.)
> 
> Hmm.  I'm sure I read some there, but he doess seem to have been
> mostly an "If" franchaise.

Yes, very much so.

> What was the one with the Groaci who was now a
> Terran citizen and a good guy but everyone thought he was the villian?
> And where was "The Hoob Melon Crisis" first published?  If I'm reading
> ISFDB right it points me to a paperback, but I thought I remembered a
> magazine version?

To quote "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1976:
January-June", p. 1824:

A709495.
Retief, emissary to the stars. By Keith Laumer. 171p. Two stories
prev. pub. in Analog & The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction.
NB: The Hoob melon crisis & The Troubleshooters appear for the first
publication within the text, & compilation. @ Keith Laumer;
16Dec75; A709495.

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#424842

In article <dd304754-d3d8-4b58-a37a-145e68b511e6@googlegroups.com>,
Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
>On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12:06:07 PM UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan>
>wrote:
>[snip discussion of humorous SF in _ASF_]
>> Oh, there were, I mean ancient history now, but the Kuttner "Gallager"
>> stories, Brown's "Placet Is A Crazy Place", many Retief stores,
>> Chap Fooey Rider, Robinson's "Callahan" stories and "Half an Oaf"..
>
>"*many* Retief Stories"? (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1478)

It's possible that Ted meant that some Retief stories* are better
than others.**

_____
*pre-stroke.
**post-stroke.  I understand that a neurologist, looking at
Laumer's late work, can tell exactly what parts of his brain the
stroke took out.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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#424843

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:37:27 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
Heydt) wrote:

>In article <dd304754-d3d8-4b58-a37a-145e68b511e6@googlegroups.com>,
>Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
>>On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12:06:07 PM UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan>
>>wrote:
>>[snip discussion of humorous SF in _ASF_]
>>> Oh, there were, I mean ancient history now, but the Kuttner "Gallager"
>>> stories, Brown's "Placet Is A Crazy Place", many Retief stores,
>>> Chap Fooey Rider, Robinson's "Callahan" stories and "Half an Oaf"..
>>
>>"*many* Retief Stories"? (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1478)
>
>It's possible that Ted meant that some Retief stories* are better
>than others.**
>
>_____
>*pre-stroke.
>**post-stroke.  I understand that a neurologist, looking at
>Laumer's late work, can tell exactly what parts of his brain the
>stroke took out.

I thought he meant that they mostly appeared in IF, rather than
ANALOG.  I'm not sure how many (if any) were in ANALOG, actually.




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#424845

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:22:56 -0400, Lawrence Watt-Evans
<lwe@sff.net> wrote
in<news:mdb52bl937n437df1cdcrpi9h7cavhic4l@reader80.eternal-september.org>
in rec.arts.sf.written:

> On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:37:27 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
> Heydt) wrote:

>> In article <dd304754-d3d8-4b58-a37a-145e68b511e6@googlegroups.com>,
>> Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:

>>> On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12:06:07 PM UTC-4, Ted
>>> Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

>>> [snip discussion of humorous SF in _ASF_]

>>>> Oh, there were, I mean ancient history now, but the
>>>> Kuttner "Gallager" stories, Brown's "Placet Is A
>>>> Crazy Place", many Retief stores, Chap Fooey Rider,
>>>> Robinson's "Callahan" stories and "Half an Oaf"..

>>> "*many* Retief Stories"? (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1478)

>> It's possible that Ted meant that some Retief stories*
>> are better than others.**

[...]

> I thought he meant that they mostly appeared in IF,
> rather than ANALOG.  

That was my interpretation as well.  

> I'm not sure how many (if any) were in ANALOG, actually.

I spotted only one, but I don’t guarantee that I didn’t
miss any.

Brian
-- 
It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their
holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered
rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,
haggisss.

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#424871

Greg Goss wrote:
> burlwood <kegepet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Well, I have good news for you.
>>> 
>>> Both "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" (hmm, they've changed the name) and 
>>> "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" are *still being published*. 
>>> So  at least there _are_ magazines in existence to which you might attempt 
>>> to  submit your story.
>>> 
>> I was under the impression Analog dealt primarily with hard scifi, and that 
>> Asimov's would be more appropriate for humor, unless my info is outdated.
>
> I haven't read ASF for a decade or two.  But "back in the day", short
> humour stuff was common in "probability zero".  There may have been
> longer ones -- I don't remember.

Do these magazines still publish feghoots?

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#424834

In article <11bf729d-367c-4061-8928-0158b58dafef@googlegroups.com>,
burlwood  <kegepet@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, I have good news for you.
>> 
>> Both "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" (hmm, they've changed the name) and 
>> "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" are *still being published*. So 
>> at least there _are_ magazines in existence to which you might attempt to 
>> submit your story.
>>
>I was under the impression Analog dealt primarily with hard scifi, and
>that Asimov's would be more appropriate for humor, unless my info is
>outdated.
>

"Analog" certainly isn't a humor mag, but they have published many
funny stories over the years.  They even had a whole "Kelvin Throop"
humor issue many years ago.
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What's not in Columbia anymore..

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#424850

On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 9:05:13 AM UTC-6, burlwood wrote:

> I was under the impression Analog dealt primarily with hard scifi, and that 
> Asimov's would be more appropriate for humor, unless my info is outdated.

Analog does deal primarily in _serious_ sci-fi, but "hard sci=fi" means stories that are based on completely plausible science - no faster-than-light spaceships or time machines please. I don't think there is a magazine with that specialty.

As for Asimov's Science-Fiction Magazine, I'm not at all certain that it still 
exists, although it did survive Dr. Asimov's passing. It is lighter in tone 
than Analog, although as someone noted, Analog does have a regular "probability 
zero" department.

Ah, I'm glad to see that I'm mistaken. Their webside features their December 
2015 issue, so they too are still in publication.

John Savard

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#424894

In article <3eef27c5-d367-499d-9ee1-14e0baa21a9d@googlegroups.com>, 
jsavard@ecn.ab.ca says...
> 
> On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 9:05:13 AM UTC-6, burlwood wrote:
> 
> > I was under the impression Analog dealt primarily with hard scifi, and that 
> > Asimov's would be more appropriate for humor, unless my info is outdated.
> 
> Analog does deal primarily in _serious_ sci-fi, but "hard sci=fi" means stories that are based on completely plausible science - no faster-than-light spaceships or time machines please. I don't think there is a magazine with that specialty.
> 
> As for Asimov's Science-Fiction Magazine, I'm not at all certain that it still 
> exists, although it did survive Dr. Asimov's passing. It is lighter in tone 
> than Analog, although as someone noted, Analog does have a regular "probability 
> zero" department.
> 
> Ah, I'm glad to see that I'm mistaken. Their webside features their December 
> 2015 issue, so they too are still in publication.
> 
> John Savard

Asimov had little actual participation in the operation of Asimov's--he 
wrote a column when he felt like it and answered letters when he felt 
like it and that was pretty much it.

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#424826

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:37:59 -0700 (PDT), burlwood <kegepet@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Wow, my first usenet post in like 10 years. Anyway, I just finished an SF humor story, and I was just wondering which of the magazines would be best to submit it to. Is any one particularly welcoming of SF humor stories? Thanks.

Apex might be interested, they run humour sometimes.

You're probably best off also asking next door in
rec.arts.sf.composition, but we have published authors here who may also
have some ideas.

	Cheers - Jaimie
-- 
Okay, it works now. Or at least it malfunctions in all the expected ways.
                                                     -- Mark Edwards, asr 

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#424885

burlwood wrote:
> 
> Wow, my first usenet post in like 10 years. Anyway, I just finished an SF humor story, and I was just wondering which of the magazines would be best to submit it to. Is any one particularly welcoming of SF humor stories? Thanks.


Have you considered transform it into a ...comic book?

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#424886

On Sunday, 18 October 2015 07:34:57 UTC+1, The Starmaker  wrote:
> burlwood wrote:
> > 
> > Wow, my first usenet post in like 10 years. Anyway, I just finished an SF humor story, and I was just wondering which of the magazines would be best to submit it to. Is any one particularly welcoming of SF humor stories? Thanks.
> 
> Have you considered transform it into a ...comic book?

To be clear, that isn't a serious suggestion.
Language isn't Starmaker's first language.

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#425111

Robert Carnegie wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, 18 October 2015 07:34:57 UTC+1, The Starmaker  wrote:
> > burlwood wrote:
> > >
> > > Wow, my first usenet post in like 10 years. Anyway, I just finished an SF humor story, and I was just wondering which of the magazines would be best to submit it to. Is any one particularly welcoming of SF humor stories? Thanks.
> >
> > Have you considered transform it into a ...comic book?
> 
> To be clear, that isn't a serious suggestion.
> Language isn't Starmaker's first language.


they call them graphic novels but  i still call them...comic books.

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