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"Starlog" to cease print publication

I used to occasionally pick one up in the 90s/early 2000's, but I was more into its sister(also defunct) mag Comics Scenes(not so much for comics but for its coverage of Disney animated films.) When I got into the TNN reruns of TNG I bought a whole lots of Starlog back issues on Ebay & read through all the old TNG articles...

Great, first Anime Insider
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that too? wow I guess the internet is just killing any need for these types of publications. I still miss Animerica.
 
As someone who used to work at Starlog I have to say I am not surprised and frankly wonder what took so long. The people behind the scenes were very burned out and bitter from what I remember and in some ways were stuck in the old ways. But I remember the magazine's glory days in the late 70s-early 80s when it and Cinefantastique were the go-to magazines (along with the long gone Fantastic Films) to get a Sci-Fi info fix.
As for Fango, from what a friend of mine who still keeps tabs with the company told me, they seem to be doing fine. In fact the new owners of the company were more into Fangoria than Starlog and being that horror films are still popular that magazine will probably be around for awhile.
 
From a nostalgia point of view, this saddens me, but from a practical point of view, I find this news utterly unimportant. Starlog had long ago ceased to be any sort of quality source of news for Science Fiction.
 
I still have some old Starlogs boxed away. Had a feeling they might be worth something. One of them mentions a young director named Ridley Scott was planning a new movie-and they had pictures of some car thing called a "spinner"!

Haven't read one since I left Borders-but still, sad to see it go....
 
I still have some old Starlogs boxed away. Had a feeling they might be worth something. One of them mentions a young director named Ridley Scott was planning a new movie-and they had pictures of some car thing called a "spinner"!

Haven't read one since I left Borders-but still, sad to see it go....
 
It is sad, though I admit I haven't read it in years. I actually went back and collected back issues at one point. My favorite time period was 1986-1987 when the good will generated by STIV turned to downright exhilaration for the brand new ST series, with behind the scenes reporting by David Gerrold, complete with production art and character descriptions.

RAMA
 
Starlog has sucked for the last 15 years or so, but in the preceding years, it was a great publication. I miss its glory days, just as I miss its long-defunct amateur moviemaking sister publication, Don Dohler's CineMagic.
 
Chaos Descending said:
From a nostalgia point of view, this saddens me, but from a practical point of view, I find this news utterly unimportant. Starlog had long ago ceased to be any sort of quality source of news for Science Fiction.
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Indeed, I probably haven't bought a copy in the last fourteen or fifteen years! But I think I have a pretty complete run of the first hundred issues or so. ;)
 
From the Starlog website:

It is also at this time that we announce the temporary cessation of the current run of STARLOG as a print magazine. After 33 years, and considering the present state of the economy, we feel its time for a major revamp and will be temporarily discontinuing publication while the model and redesign of the magazine are contemplated and executed.
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Hopefully it will be only temporary; there are just aspects of magazines and books that one can't get from a website, and I'd hate to see that experience lost as more and more publications go digital. :(
 
This is sad news. I have quite a few STARLOG issues from the 80's and 90's, including the Science Fiction Video Magazine #1 from 1988 w/ E.T., Robin Williams and other aliens and monsters on the cover.
 
I used to read this thing too. I'd always look forward to the new issues of this and Cinefantastique in the late 80s and early 90s. I can't say that I'm surprised or disappointed though. This is the internet age and magazines like these are obsolete.
 
Bugger. I bought it throughout the 80s and probably into the 90s. It cost a fortune over here in the UK because it was on import. When I was a student at university I would often read it in the newsagents. Sometimes my friend and I would chip in to buy a copy, it was that costly. I even had a letter printed! I remember writing in because for some reason the only newsagent that stocked it in town put it in the travel section.

This is sad, sad news and the, probably inevitable, passing of an era. :( I feel so damn old right now.
 
I got to share the sentiments of everyone here. Though my Starlog era was late 80s to the early 90s. For me it was Sci Fi fandom. I also bought Comic Scene.

I love to track down issues covering my favorite 80s films. Ones from before I was old enough to buy them. Half-Price Book Stores tend to have old issues.

I have continued to buy an issue or two every year. Usually during the summer movie season. Partially nostalgia but they had some good interviews. Which were often of a better quality than most fan websites.
 
That's very sad indeed. I remember buying some of the very early issues, and they cost a small fortune in the UK but in the 1970's they were the only good source of information.
 
Wow! I was just going through old boxes of my sci-fi memorabilia and came across a bunch of my old Starlog magazines from the 80's and early 90's. I loved going to the bookstore at the local mall and pick up the latest copy. I was showing my wife how long it took to finally get Spiderman on the big screen (Starlog always seemed to have it on their list of movies in pre-production). And of course, Trek was always featured. I just went through their Star Wars 10th anniversary edition that featured the "new" Enterprise-D! Good memories.
 
Sad to see it go from the world, but it has been gone from my life for some time now. Goodbye little fetish magazine. How many hours of my childhood did I while away looking at your pictures and reading your articles? Perhaps too many.
 
I still have the issue that mentions new shows coming out like Buck Rodgers, Battlestart Galactica, Spider-Man, and others. It also mentions a Star Trek movie being made.
 
To some extent, real old issues of Starlog are a time capsule of projects never realized and some long forgotten. They devoted an extensive article to the "Brave New World" television miniseries starring Kerr Dullea, and had a cover article and preproduction art for the version of a "Buck Rogers" TV series that David Gerrold was to be story editor on (it never made it to the stage, and the rights were picked up by Larson who did an entirely different version with Gil Gerard).
 
A shame. Used to be an avid reader, but like many here, lost interest as quality diminished, prices sky-rocketed, and other resources appeared.

Maybe they will get reborn as a web publication?
 
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