Subscribers, please know that the December subscription mailing went out late. I'll have more info for you soon.
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Dec. 2009 issue shipped late to subscribers
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Posted 2 weeks ago #
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Good to know. Even with two months to read the issue I always manage to run late. (Doesn't bode well for the Fed/Mar issue!)
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
Thanks for the update. I'll wait a bit before panicking.
Posted 1 week ago # -
Hi all. New forum member here.
I subscribed to F&SF for a bit while in college, but stopped about 4 years ago. Grad school came up and made it impossible to keep up. But I've found time anew.
I renewed my subscription after that long hiatus, and lo-and-behold, the Dec. '09 issue arrives in my mailbox this very Tuesday, only about a week after I sent the subscription notice! I'm impressed.
So, I've read the first story, "Dragon's Teeth." A wonderful story by which to be re-introduced to the magazine. It's not very often that I read a high fantasy, but this one really fits the bill of what I want from such a story. It's got all the elements of a traditional high fantasy (magical items, quest, court intrigue...) and tells a highly satisfying story in the space of ~25 pages. Why write a 12-book series averaging 800 pages per book, when you can hit the spot with something like this?
Posted 1 week ago # -
I agree, regarding "Dragon's Teeth". But I want to know if the king was still alive when he got home.
Posted 1 week ago # -
Still waiting on mine to arrive...
Posted 1 week ago # -
Same with most subscribers, rowsdower. The checking copies we sent to our own offices haven't arrived yet. Magister got his/her copy already because we're experimenting with a new approach to filling subscription orders.
Posted 6 days ago # -
One of our checking copies arrived today.
Posted 5 days ago # -
My copy arrived in Ohio today. *rubs hands gleefully*
Posted 5 days ago # -
Whew! Finally here in the Rocky Mountains (Denver). 'Bout fricken time!
Posted 4 days ago # -
We're getting lots of reports from US subscribers that their copies have arrived, but none yet from west of the Rockies.
Posted 3 days ago # -
Yes, we're still "Issueless in Oregon". Well, I am at any rate.. On the plus side, with all this free time, I've been raiding the back issues and enjoying all the sea stories being posted in another thread. If, in the course of going through this exercise, I come across any stories involving a blind archaeologist it will be duly reported to GVG.
Maybe the mystery person who wrote "Holo Victory" stole my December issue?
Posted 3 days ago # -
The December issue arrived in Minneapolis November 18th. A treat, since the Oct./Nov. issue never arrived.
Posted 2 days ago # -
Back in my day you could blame it on the mules getting stuck in the mountains outside the printing plant, but nowadays....
Posted 2 days ago # -
Mine arrived yesterday in Washington.
Posted 2 days ago # -
Mine got to Bozeman, just east of the Divide, today (November 19), and looked like it had a hell of a time doing it -- one-third of one page was gone, some of the rest hanging on by sheer force of will. Maybe the mules stomped on it....
Posted 2 days ago # -
Mine arrived yesterday in Eugene. While I'm sure the real reason for the late subscription mailout is technical and boring, I prefer to believe that it's simply because it takes my mail carrier longer to get through these thicker issues!
As it appears it will be another crap rainy weekend over here its arrival couldn't be better timed.
Posted 1 day ago # -
Mine arrived on the 17th in pretty good shape. I thought I set it up (and paid) for my issues to arrive in an enevelope so they'd be protected better and not have the mailing label on them but I guess I was mistaken since it arrived as is, no enevelope, with the damned label slapped across the middle of the cover. I was able to remove the label carefully with no glue left behind but it was tricky.
Oh well.
I subscribe to Rolling Stone and their labels are how it should be done. It is just a small, glossy rectangle that peels off easily, just like peeling off a stamp, and there is no glue left behind at all. It looks like you bought it right off the newsstand.
It is annoying that Borders doesn't carry F&SF because I have one that's walking distnce from my house and I'd have an excuse to go in there once in a while....
Posted 1 day ago #
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