|
After reading the small collection of SF that my local library had, I collected Asimov's SF magazine for a number of years, along with some others. The big problem that the magazines had was that writers stopped writing mostly for magazines and moved towards writing mostly for books. As the paperback book became more and more popular, magazines really suffered. I rarely read short stories any more.
I first started buying SF books back in the mid 70's. Some of those books have aged well, others not so much. One think to keep in mind is that there is a difference between books that simply aren't the sort of books that you enjoy (for example, some people love military SF, others hate it) and bad authors. Every SF sub genre that has had a time period of popularity (military SF, epic fantasy, urban fantasy, etc...) also has had the swarm of hack writers trying to make a buck.
Another thing to keep in mind that before ebooks and self publishing, a lot of drek got filtered out by editors, now it shows up in fanfic sites and on Amazon.
|