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Smart Short Pulpy
Oct. 16th, 2008 04:20 pmDamn - sick again. I'm over the worst of it, but my voice went away for a while there and it is still pretty croaky. I wonder where I could have picked that type of bug up....
As usual when recuperating, I have been reading short stories. This time mostly from a bundle of Asimov's I picked up at the last Phoenix meeting. I worked my way through them and then picked up ASIM #37. As I read it, I could feel my engagement levels rise. The general type of pulp magazine story was the same, but there was something a little more clever about these stories that gave them that edge - that extra quality kick. So, while being in fundamentally in the same space, the small press publication managed to have smarter stories than the professional mass market version. "Managed to" may not be the right words there - perhaps there is an inevitability to the conclusions that can be drawn.
Which is all a round about way of saying well done to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
editormum - it was a heck of a good note to end on.
As usual when recuperating, I have been reading short stories. This time mostly from a bundle of Asimov's I picked up at the last Phoenix meeting. I worked my way through them and then picked up ASIM #37. As I read it, I could feel my engagement levels rise. The general type of pulp magazine story was the same, but there was something a little more clever about these stories that gave them that edge - that extra quality kick. So, while being in fundamentally in the same space, the small press publication managed to have smarter stories than the professional mass market version. "Managed to" may not be the right words there - perhaps there is an inevitability to the conclusions that can be drawn.
Which is all a round about way of saying well done to
editormum - it was a heck of a good note to end on.