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Description: Guide to sci-fi and fantasy.

Newest Review: ... or time constraints started to impact upon me. I was rather unimpressed, therefore, when Starburst changed its format, too, ... more

... along with all the other magazines, introducing an extra 30-odd pages and a slightly smaller font-size (and a higher cover-price to cover it all, of course). And at first, my suspicions that Starburst would very soon become a magazine not worth buying seemed to be being borne out. Then something wonderful happened: the magazine changed editors! The new editor, Andrew Cartmel, former script editor on Doctor Who and the author of a pretty good sf novel called ‘The Wise’ [Virgin Worlds, 1999], seems to have re...more

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	Starburst Release Date: 1998 - 01 - 01, Audio CD, Genes Last Update 01.12.2009 05:49	£ 8.39
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Starburst -- The Premier Magazine of Sci-Fi Entertainment? (611 words)
by - written on 18/10/00 (Very useful, 64 readings)
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The British media sf magazine market is currently in a kind of flux, with two new magazines having appeared recently, Science Fiction World (which looks, to me anyway, as if it will fold after only a few issues) and Starlog UK (which has a lot of money behind it and, even though it is actually not that good, probably won’t), and the more established magazines on the market currently engrossed in the process of revamping, many having increased their page-counts and changed their font styles and layouts in an attempt to look more ‘cool’ and hence gain more readers. Many of these changes have actually, in my opinion, rather spoiled the charm of ... Read the complete review