I remember seeing that. IIRC, there was some really spiffy pre-production art by william Stout. Larson and Gerard be damned, I wanted to the version by David Gerrold (wasn't D.C. Fontana also involved with that?).
"Starlog" to cease print publication
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I remember seeing that. IIRC, there was some really spiffy pre-production art by william Stout. Larson and Gerard be damned, I wanted to the version by David Gerrold (wasn't D.C. Fontana also involved with that?).
This is sad. Starlog is an institution. Despite the Internet, I've continued to buy the book every month as I have for decades. They have a great combination of news, homages to classics, book and DVD reviews, and funny cartoons. I'll keep my fingers crossed that this is indeed a temporary situation.
I've continued to buy it whenever I saw it on the stand, even recently. At one time, it WAS the cutting edge of news in science fiction media. Though it had lost it's edge, it still was good science fiction journalism. Let's hope this is a chrysalis rather than a corpse.
As long as they keep printing Omni, we'll be ok.
You're very cruel.
Man, I loved that 'zine.
On a related note, I actually found some original ST Fan Club magazines (the small format ones) that had the first blurbs about STNG. Wow now that is old school. Along with Starlog, the promoted the show for fans. I want to scan some of those and put them on the BB.
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That sucks, but it seems like they're shutting down to do a revamp, so it'll be back.
I still have a box full of Starlogs, I read them thoroughly when I was young. The other magazines I collected at the time were, Cinescape, Heavy Metal Magazine, OMNI, and Cinefantastique. Still have quite a few of those, amazingly enough.
I still have a box full of Starlogs, I read them thoroughly when I was young. The other magazines I collected at the time were, Cinescape, Heavy Metal Magazine, OMNI, and Cinefantastique. Still have quite a few of those, amazingly enough.
Gods yeah, I was born in '71, and while growing up during the pre-internet days I'd scour check the local base PX magazine shops weekly for the latest issue of Starlog to appear on the shelves so I could catch up on the "latest" info and news!
I remember in the late 80's right after my dad retired from the Army he took us on a long cross-country road-trip of the southwest when we got back stateside (from Germany) and I the first thing I'd do at every truck stop/gas station my dad stopped at is run inside trying to find the latest copy of Starlog hoping to find out *any* info I could on this new Star Trek series I heard was coming - and maybe get a glimpse of what the new Enterprise would look like (which I couldn't even conceive of in my tiny teen-aged mind)...
...then I remember the day I found the new issue, opened it, and there she was - Probert's black ink on white drawings - and I *instantly* fell in love - Her curves - I *knew* this was how a future Starship *had* to look!!!
In the mid-80's my 18yo cousin had a stack of issues dating back to the first in boxes in his room - and I spent a lot of the summer I visited my aunt & him when I was 15 ogling production and concept drawings from old favorite tv shows and movies!
(I probably spent even more time looking at "starship porn" that summer than I did wanking off to the *real* porn mags he had pilled up in his bathroom!)
I remember in the late 80's right after my dad retired from the Army he took us on a long cross-country road-trip of the southwest when we got back stateside (from Germany) and I the first thing I'd do at every truck stop/gas station my dad stopped at is run inside trying to find the latest copy of Starlog hoping to find out *any* info I could on this new Star Trek series I heard was coming - and maybe get a glimpse of what the new Enterprise would look like (which I couldn't even conceive of in my tiny teen-aged mind)...
...then I remember the day I found the new issue, opened it, and there she was - Probert's black ink on white drawings - and I *instantly* fell in love - Her curves - I *knew* this was how a future Starship *had* to look!!!
In the mid-80's my 18yo cousin had a stack of issues dating back to the first in boxes in his room - and I spent a lot of the summer I visited my aunt & him when I was 15 ogling production and concept drawings from old favorite tv shows and movies!
(I probably spent even more time looking at "starship porn" that summer than I did wanking off to the *real* porn mags he had pilled up in his bathroom!)
I guess it doesn't matter much, now. But in 1977-1980, "Starlog" magazine was just about the only reliable source of information for a lot of us, cutting through the rumors about what was going on with the Star Trek revival - first the Kaufman movie, then the "Phase II" series, then ST:TMP, then the removal of Roddenberry and his replacement by (horrors!) that guy who did "The Six Million Dollar Man" - somebody named Bennett...
Seriously, over time I figured out exactly what day of the month the local "Drug Fair" would shelve the next issue, and calculated from other available information just how far in advance of publication the 'zine's editorial deadline was - anything you read in "Starlog" was six weeks old, and that was pretty damned fresh and up-to-date. The first pictures of the new Enterprise sets, the new exterior design of the ship, the first rumbles of trouble with the effects on the film and possible release-date issues...found all that out in "Starlog."
In 1981 I discovered "Variety" and then it didn't matter so much. But damn...everything changes and nothing lasts forever.
I too, loved Starlog for years...but I noticed a decline around 1981-82 and quit buying it regularly. Space:1999 was the thing that got me started reading it - and then Susan Sackett articles on ST:Phase II/TMP. I would buy the occasional issue here and there after the mid-80's. I loved Cinefantastique also! Maybe moreso than Starlog.
Well, I can't say I'm surprised Starlog is ceasing publication. I've been thinking for a long time about how all the movie news is so much more accessible online...I'm surprised Starlog has lasted as long as it has.
I still have the issues I bought over the years -- Issue #1 included.
Goodbye Starlog...you were there during some very important and fun years...
THAT was a great time to be reading Starlog! I have all those issues...
As far as I know, Starlog is the only place that Gerrold Buck Rogers preproduction art ever got printed! I doubt anyone would even know about that were it not for Starlog.