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Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Elizabeth Bear, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stephen Baxter, and others. Sheila Williams completed her fourth year as Asimov’s editor. Analog Science Fiction & Fact registered a 5.1 per cent loss in overall circulation, from 27,399 to 25,999, with subscriptions dropping from 22,972 to 21,880, and newsstand sales dropping from 4,427 to 4,119; sell-through remained steady at 34 per cent. Analo g published good work this year by Dean McLaughlin, Geoffrey A. Landis, Michael F. Flynn, Robert R. Chase, Ben Bova, and others. Stanley Schmidt has been editor there for twenty-nine years. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction registered a small 2.7 per cent loss in overall circulation, from 16,489 to 16,044, with subscriptions dropping from 12,831 to 12,374 but newstand sales actually rising slightly from 3,658 to 3,670; sell-through rose from 33 per cent to 35 per cent. F&SF published good work this year by Charles Coleman Finlay, Ted Kostmatka, Albert E. Cowdrey, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Michael Swanwick, Steven Utley, John Kessel, and others. Gordon Van Gelder is in his twelfth year as editor and eighth year as owner and publisher. In its last full year, Realms of Fantasy published good stuff by Liz Williams, Carrie Vaughn, Greg Frost, Richard Parks, Tanith Lee, Eugie Foster, Aliette de Bodard, and others. Shawna McCarthy was the editor of the magazine from its launch in 1994 to its death in 2009.
    Interzone doesn’t really qualify as a professional magazine by the definition of The Science Fiction Writers of America ( SFWA ) because of its low rates and circulation – in the 2,000 to 3,000 copy range – but it’s thoroughly professional in the calibre of writers that it attracts and in the quality of the fiction it produces, so we’re going to list it with the other professional magazines anyway. Interzone had another strong year creatively, in 2008 publishing good stories by Greg Egan, Hannu Rajaniemi, Paul McAuley, Aliette de Bodard, Mercurio D. Rivera, Jamie Barras, Jason Sanford, and others. The ever-shifting editorial staff includes publisher Andy Cox, assisted by Peter Tennant. TTA Press, Interzone ’s publisher, also publishes straight horror or dark suspense magazine Black Static .
    The survival of these magazines is essential if you’d like to see lots of good SF and fantasy published every year – and you can help them survive by subscribing to them! It’s never been easier to subscribe to most of the genre magazines, since you can now do it electronically online with the click of a few buttons, without even a trip to the mailbox. In the Internet age, you can also subscribe from overseas just as easily as you can from the United States, something formerly difficult-to-impossible. Furthermore, Internet sites such as Fictionwise (fictionwise.com), magaz!nes.com (magazines.com), and even Amazon.com sell subscriptions online, as well as electronic downloadable versions of many of the magazines to be read on your Kindle or PDA or home computer, something becoming increasingly popular with the computer-savvy set. And, of course, you can still subscribe the old-fashioned way, by mail.
    So I’m going to list both the Internet sites where you can subscribe online and the street addresses where you can subscribe by mail for each magazine: Asimov ’s site is at asimovs.com; its subscription address is Asimov’s Science Fiction , Dell Magazines, 6 Prowitt Street, Norwalk, CT 06855 – $55.90 for annual subscription in the US. Analog ’s site is at analogsf. com; its subscription address is Analog Science Fiction and Fact , Dell Magazines, 6 Prowitt Street, Norwalk, CT 06855 – $55.90 for annual subscription in the US. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ’s site is at sfsite.com/fsf; its subscription address is The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Spilogale, Inc., P.O. Box 3447, Hoboken, NJ 07030, annual subscription – $50.99 in the US. Interzone and Black Static can be subscribed to