From 1996: one of the best freebies in the long-running history of SFX MAGAZINE: Volume 1 (or 2) of THE EPISODE GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.
This was a no-pics paperback which, as the name suggests, gave concise-but-informative episode guides to BABYLON FIVE, STAR TREK: VOYAGER and SPACE: 1999. The former two shows were still in production whilst, of course, the last had wrapped almost twenty years earlier.
These weren't the old fashioned summaries of the plots that older guides focused on, these borrowed far more from the much-missed Virgin Books house style of throwing in behind-the-scenes information, analysis, context and the odd scathing observation.
A second volume followed the next year and then, sadly, the project ground a to a halt. I imagine the economics of such an undertaking, especially in the age of the web, didn't justify the potential sales spike.
these days you would be lucky to get a free mini-poster with SFX...I know i have this in storage somewhere but i cant find it...no doubt you have this problem sometimes..?
ReplyDeleteA couple of months ago I had a query printed in SFX in the 'Ask The SFXperts' section - there was a gap of 17 months between me sending the e-mail and it getting printed in the magazine - so long that I'd forgotten all about it and so it was quite a surprise !!
ReplyDeleteyes it must have been !
ReplyDeletegod knows why it took so long for them to print it...even a letter will be published within 2-3 months after its been sent....even though i still buy SFX, I rarely have time to browse through each issue but i'll be sure to look for your query when i get home
found it...the query was about the blue pirate book series..most intresting
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