Ok, I love Orson Scott Card’s new online speculative fiction magazine, “Intergalactic Medicine Show”:http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com. The stories are first-rate, the free articles are fantastic, and the extras are a lot of fun.
The biggest gripe I have with it right now? They seem to being major problems actually sticking to a publication schedule. The IGMS is supposed to be a quarterly publication. This means one issue every three months. Since the IGMS launched last October, there have been two – count them – only two issues published. Issue 3’s publication date was pushed back from July to August, then from August to September. Now we’re into October again – one year since the magazine opened its doors – and we’ve _yet_ to see Issue 3 come online.
Much as I respect OSC (he’s my favorite writer and probably my number one influence in my own writing), he seems to be having quite a bit of trouble running a magazine. I wonder how much of this is due to “turning the editorial reins over to Mr. Schubert”:http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=content&article=about and how much is due simply to poor planning.
Mr. Card, your readers really do want to support your magazine. How about giving them something to actually get behind?
