Another Question - Academic Journals
May. 29th, 2009 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julieandrewsNo answer to my Readercon question, so here's another one.
I'm thinking about subscribing to an academic sf journal. Wikipedia has told me the main contenders are:
Femspec - 40$/year (? issues)
Extrapolation - 26$/year (3 issues)
Science-Fiction Studies - 26$/year (3 issues)
Foundation - ????/year (??? issues)
New York Review of Science Fiction - 40$/year (12 issues)
I was going to say that all of the websites uniformly SUCK, but NYRSF isn't that bad. And since I couldn't even find subscription information on the Foundation site, that wins the award for suckiest of the sucky websites. Suck.
I'm less interested in reading the reviews, so if there's one that's heavier on other interesting bits and lighter on reviews, that's a plus. If it covers fantasy as well as science fiction, also a plus.
So do any of you have any thoughts on any of the above? Is there one that's likely accessible via library databases or ILL? Alas, I'm not near a university likely to have a standing subscription to any of these.
I'm thinking about subscribing to an academic sf journal. Wikipedia has told me the main contenders are:
Femspec - 40$/year (? issues)
Extrapolation - 26$/year (3 issues)
Science-Fiction Studies - 26$/year (3 issues)
Foundation - ????/year (??? issues)
New York Review of Science Fiction - 40$/year (12 issues)
I was going to say that all of the websites uniformly SUCK, but NYRSF isn't that bad. And since I couldn't even find subscription information on the Foundation site, that wins the award for suckiest of the sucky websites. Suck.
I'm less interested in reading the reviews, so if there's one that's heavier on other interesting bits and lighter on reviews, that's a plus. If it covers fantasy as well as science fiction, also a plus.
So do any of you have any thoughts on any of the above? Is there one that's likely accessible via library databases or ILL? Alas, I'm not near a university likely to have a standing subscription to any of these.