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    The print semi-prozine market is subject to the same pressures in terms of rising postage rates and production costs as the professional magazines are, and such pressures have already driven two of the most prominent fiction semi-prozines, Subterranean and Fantasy Magazine , from print into electronic-only online formats, with Apex following this year (see a review of the Apex site in the online section below), and I suspect that more will eventually follow. Print semi-prozines such as Argosy Magazine , Absolute Magnitude , The Magazine of Science Fiction Adventures , Dreams of Decadence , Fantastic Stories of the Imagination , Artemis Magazine: Science and Fiction for a Space-Faring Society , Century , Orb , Altair , Terra Incognita , Eidolon , Spectrum SF , All Possible Worlds , Farthing , Yog’s Notebook , and the newszine Chronicle have died in the last couple of years, and I won’t be listing subscription addresses for any of them any more. Tim Pratt and Heather Shaw’s Flytrap , “a little ’zine with teeth,” produced two issues in 2008 and then died as well. It looks like Say . . . and Full Unit Hookup may also be dead, or at least on hiatus, since I haven’t seen them for a couple of years. Weird Tales survives in a new incarnation from a different publisher, and thanks at least in part to some clever promotional ploys, seems even to be thriving. Another refuge from the collapse of Warren Lapine’s DNA Publishing empire, Mythic Delirium , also still survives, publishing mostly poetry. Neither H. P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror nor the revived Thrilling Wonder Stories published an issue, but considering the erratic schedule on which most semi-prozines get published, with some supposed “quarterlies” unable to manage even one issue per year, it may be premature to declare them dead. Saw two issues of Fictitious Force , but since they’re not dated, it’s hard to tell when they were published, and since no address or subscription information is given anywhere, it’s hard to tell you how to order it; try website sciffy. com/dnw.
    Warren Lapine and DNA Publications may be returning to the fray this year, with a newly relaunched version of Fantastic Stories , due to hit the stands in mid-2009.
    Of the surviving print fiction semi-prozines, by far the most professional and the one that publishes the highest per centage of stories of professional quality, is the British magazine Postscripts , edited by Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers. They published a huge more-than-double-length issue this year, Postscripts 15 , which is most usefully considered to be an anthology and which is discussed in the anthology section below, but there was additional good stuff in Postscripts 14 , Postscripts 16 , and Postscripts 17 by Ian R. MacLeod, John Grant, Sarah Monette, Lisa Tuttle, Robert Reed, Vaughn Stanger, Marly Youmans, and others. Postscripts has announced that they’ll be changing from a magazine to an “anthology” format, mostly by changing the format from two column to full width and upping the word count from 60,000 to about 70,000–75,000 per issue. Electric Velocipede , edited by John Kilma, seems to be publishing more science fiction these days, although they also continue to run slipstream and fantasy; they managed two issues in 2008, one of them a double issue, and published good stuff by William Shunn, Aliette de Bodard, Patrick O’Leary, Jennifer Pelland, Sandra McDonald, Elissa Malcohn, and others.
    One of the longest-running of the fiction semi-prozines is the Canadian On Spec , edited by a collective under general editor Diane L. Walton, which once again kept reliably to its publishing