No, what drives me crazy is the supremely affected garbage that is shouldering aside honest fiction. I’ve nothing against avant garde prose - viz. The likes of Sheckley and (for the most part) Lafferty make me smile just fine. I want a plot, compelling characters, and for God’s Sake, science in my science fiction. And did I mention the extra verbiage? These magazines pay three cents per word, you know.Īn author will not impress me with her/his command of the typewriter keys beyond the 36 letters and numerals, nor with an arcane talent for stringing comma-connected clauses unbroken across a paragraph. Tediously amusing, dully droll, laden with parenthetical (uselessly so) clauses - and hyphenated articulations, sometimes “quoted” for extra sardonicism. It has become de riguer at my former favorite magazine, that of Fantasy and Science Fiction, to print “funny” literary stories. Well, more specifically, a plague has invaded Galaxy, as evidenced in the December 1962 issue.
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