# How many major short story genere digests and magazines are left?

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**Created:** [April 2, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-major-short-story-genere-digests-and-magazines-are-left/850858 "2020-04-02T03:40:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-major-short-story-genere-digests-and-magazines-are-left/850858/1 "2020-04-02T03:40:43Z")

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inspired by the “does anyone make money writing anymore?” thread ([https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=809460&page=2](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=809460&page=2))

Someone mentioned Asimov (and many others) started out by writing short stories to magazines that specialized in genre-specific short stories and then mainly switched to novels once they established a fan base

What I was wondering how many of those were left? only one I know of is the fantasy and science fiction digest which is more than a few book excerpts some classic reprints and a few new stories even the one Asimov himself founded is gone (Starlog)

I don’t know of any in the mystery/private detective genre left since the ellery queen one went out years ago …

feel free to post any you know of …

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> [@nightshadea](#):
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> I don’t know of any in the mystery/private detective genre left since the ellery queen one went out years ago …

I’m seeing Ellery Quuen’s Mystery Magazine as still for sale on Amazon. Also Alfred Hitchcock’s. And Analog, Asimov’s and F&SF for SF.

I don’t know how big their readership is these days. Magazines (at least, the old-fashioned print kind) seem to have been largely replaced by the Internet.

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-major-short-story-genere-digests-and-magazines-are-left/850858/3 "2020-04-02T07:46:31Z")

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In SF, there are several online magazines with pay comparable to the digests. They include _Lightspeed, Beyond Ceaseless Skies, Amazing Stories, Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Galaxy’s Edge,_, and _Strange Horizons_.

- Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine\* is still publishing a hard copy edition, too.

There are also hard copy anthologies like \* Unidentified Funny Objects\*

So you can make money selling short fiction to magazines. Not a lot: you haven’t been able to make a living from them since the 1940s. Once TV came along, most of the pulps folded, but people even now can get started in the online magazines.