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One
of the UK's last print science fiction magazines, Odyssey, folds
in a flurry of confusion
We've had some
reports about the death of the UK's SF magazine Odyssey and contacted
two members of staff; one who turned out to have left a long time
ago (despite still being listed on their web site) and the more
recently ex-editor cum publisher Liz Holliday.
Unfortunately
we haven't been able to get much sense out of either of them.
Ms Holliday
kept on promising to send us a press release on the subject, but
the two e-mails she sent in both turned up blank (mastering the
use of the attachment button in E-mail has never been a strong point
among hacks).
Whether this
qualifies as a 'no comment', we're not quite sure?
The puff piece
on her career did happily get into our hands though.
Here it is
…
Liz Holliday's
SF and fantasy stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines.
In 1994 she was nominated for both the EasterCon Award and the Crime
Writers Association Short Story Dagger. A graduate of the Clarion
Science Fiction Writers' Workshop, she has also written ten TV novelisations
and a stack of SF journalism. She is fiction editor of (RPG magazine)
Valkyrie.
Hey, that's
one connected ex-editor!
Seriously though,
we suspect that the demise of Odyssey owes much to our chums at
newsagent super-power WH Smith, who we are told now favour big publishers
so much that any poorly funded newbies trying to strike publishing
gold don't get much of a look in. Boo hiss.
Once again,
Interzone is the only professionally produced fiction magazine in
the UK for sci-fi and fantasy.
Sadly, ever
was it thus.
Odyssey's site
(which like their URL, is somewhat shite) can be found over here.
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