Comments on: Popular Publications, Part 7: The Beginning of the End http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2011/08/popular-publications-part-7-the-beginning-of-the-end/ Frederik Pohl Wed, 22 May 2013 01:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Stefan Jones http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2011/08/popular-publications-part-7-the-beginning-of-the-end/#comment-66832 Stefan Jones Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:50:23 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=4236#comment-66832 David: After reading about the pulp industry in Frederik's posts . . . I bet management would promote an especially bright mail boy to editor before the smell of ozone had cleared up! David:

After reading about the pulp industry in Frederik’s posts . . . I bet management would promote an especially bright mail boy to editor before the smell of ozone had cleared up!

]]> By: David B. Williams http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2011/08/popular-publications-part-7-the-beginning-of-the-end/#comment-66810 David B. Williams Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:17:39 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=4236#comment-66810 I marvel that any publisher would rely on one writer to produce all the copy in each issue of a magazine. Talk about all your eggs in one basket. One stray lightning bolt and your magazine in kaput. But I'm glad they maintained FFM. I fondly recall myself as a young teen in the early 1960s, reading fantasy classics in tattered, funky copies of FFM from the late '40s. The Ship of Ishtar! I marvel that any publisher would rely on one writer to produce all the copy in each issue of a magazine. Talk about all your eggs in one basket. One stray lightning bolt and your magazine in kaput.

But I’m glad they maintained FFM. I fondly recall myself as a young teen in the early 1960s, reading fantasy classics in tattered, funky copies of FFM from the late ’40s. The Ship of Ishtar!

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