Isaac Asimov...I have pretty much all the issues of IASFM from 1980-1993. Two things about that magazine’s run stand out : One, a crappy , trite story with cardboard characters and crappy dialogue will happily be published so long as it bashes Christianity (that may have been Shawna Mccarthy’s doing, not IA’s) and two, Mr Rocket Scientist/Foundation Series Novelist mocking the guy who sent in a letter expressing a wish for a cable station devoted to science fiction films and TV series. IA stated (very condescendingly) that there just weren’t SF fans in the USA to make such a station a financial success..Just a few years before the Sci Fi channel started its long and successful run. (Though I will concede that the Sci Fi channel seems to show a lot more horror and fantasy than SF/sci fi, but whatever....)
We own most of the IA SF mags too. It was pretty good I thought until IA croaked and it went down the sexual content path. I used to have great fun reading IA’s letter feedback. He sure was one arrogant cuss.
He wrote some excellent pioneering stories that I grew up on so I’ll always thank him for that. But he had so many screwy social ideas that he seemed like a demented idiot sometimes. His hatred of Reagan was clinically psychopathic.
He was a great writer but, alas, someone who would starve to death in a room full of jars of peanut butter and loaves of bread.