The magazine gods, they are a-taunting me

[prusik]

One of my goals this year is to catch up on my short fiction reading. (Last year, I made the possibly dubious choice of subscribing to all of the big 3 SF magazines, then promptly fell behind.) Anyways, I'm finally at the point where I'm reading issues that correspond to the actual calendar month. Of course, in magazine time, this isn't May. This is actually July. The July issues of Asimov's and Analog arrived weeks ago. F&SF, though, stayed resolutely in May.

So, I was kind of excited yesterday morning when I got to the May issue of F&SF. I was reading my last issue of F&SF. I've cleared the backlog, right? Wrong. Yesterday afternoon, the June issue showed up. This afternoon, the July issue showed up. *sigh*

I'm waiting to see if the August issue arrives tomorrow. If this pace keeps up, maybe I'll read the story I will, one day, publish in F&SF before I will have written it!

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[prusik.livejournal.com]

That's the sad thing. I've just started the May issues. (The class of the May issue of Analog is clearly the installment of Karl Schroeder's Queen of Candesce.) However, in magazine time, it's July. So I still have no idea what's actually in any issue that's still selling at a newsstand.

Also, the double issue of Asimov's intimidates me almost as much as the special Gene Wolfe issue of F&SF. That issue of F&SF was pretty good. (I haven't started the Asimov yet.) I wonder if everything Gene Wolfe writes is a reification of perfection, or if it just seems that way.

My current mini-goal is to get to the July issues before July.
(Having finally finished Accelerando, I ought to start another novel too.)