TOMORROW: SPECULATIVE FICTION

   US SEMIPROZINE. \#1 launched in Sep 1992, but marked on cover as Jan 1993; bimonthly; by Apr 1995 had reached \#14; small- BEDSHEET format; began with 68pp, went up to 82 pp; color covers, internal art b/w; published andedited by Algis BUDRYS from Illinois.This magazine was originally to have been published by PULPHOUSE PUBLISHING, but was sold to Budrys, who had resigned in 1991 from the L. RON HUBBARD PRESENTS WRITERS OF THE FUTURE programme, and his position as co-ordinating judge of the WRITERS OF THE FUTURE CONTEST (though he continued to serve as an advisor). The magazineis mostly fiction (at least once by Budrys writing as Paul Janvier), with a column on writing by Budrys the main non-fiction element. The quality of the fiction has been quite good, writers including Harlan ELLISON, Geoffrey A. Landis, Ursula K. LE GUIN, Robert REED, Elisabeth VONARBURG,Gene WOLFE and a number of newer writers like Mike Christie, Eliot Fintushel, Donna McMahon and Brooks Peck. The magazine is classified as a semiprozine because the (low) circulation is only around 3,000, though the fiction is in the main fully professional. Some readers feel the fiction tends to lack distinctive voices in the sense of many of them being low key. Clearly there are distribution problems: the magazine is not especially well designed visually, and is unlikely to stand out on newsstands.

   PN