Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

[thebitterguy]

Well, Abe Vigoda's still alive as of half an hour ago, but Starlog is no more.

Starlog was one of my favourite periodicals in my youth. It, along with Ah! Caramelo!s were two things I always sought out at the corner shop where we'd wait for the feeder bus to take us home. It brought me constant joy to read Starlog, reading about books and tv shows and movies and comics (and occasional games).

There were always interesting articles to be found, too. They'd print interviews with scriptwriters and FX people in addition to performers and directors. They even published, with disturbing regularity, episode guides for all your favourite shows. I remember they did a Trek one written in character. Scotty had one that went "I dinnae remember a thing, Captain, I was droonk".

Good times. I haven't picked up an issue in decades (and that could, of course, explain much) , but I still have fond memories of it.

Comments

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

OH man, I loved Starlog. It was Starlog and Omni that I read voraciously from age 11 to 18 or so.

[thebitterguy]

Omni was never something I could get regularly, but I always enjoyed it when I could find a copy.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Oh man... I hadn't heard about Starlog. That's so sad! I had a subscription all through high school and tended to pick up several copies a year since then. Wow.

I still have a copy of my favorite cartoon from that magazine... it was about how to go about getting your novel made into a movie and had a panel with a studio executive, sitting at his desk and talking on the phone, with a Dune movie poster on the wall behind him and he's saying "But Frankie, baby, Alan does all our movie tie-ins!"

For some reason, that line still makes me laugh (although it probably makes more sense if you know that, at the time, Alan Dean Foster was pretty much making a living writing movie tie-ins).

Edited to fix punctuation and some missing words.

[thebitterguy]

I fondly remember ADF's work. I think I still have a copy of his Alien adaptation.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

I read Outland over and over and over...

[deven-science.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan of ADF's non-movie related books. Jed the Dead was a hoot.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

A bound copy of Starlog with a special chapter about "Film Princesses" helped usher me into manhood!

Or... at least... extremely confused adolescence.

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

They do say it's "temporary"...

[thebitterguy]

Yes, just like Realms is on temporary hiatus.

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

But have you seen Abe's Twitter (http://twitter.com/abevigoda)?