Here are some of the things being said about the first issue of Staffs & Starships magazine.

Vol. 1, Issue #1:

. . . That got me to thinking of traditional spec fic. What is that? I grew up on Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Fred Saberhagen and others dominating my science fiction landscape. J. R. R. Tolkien, Fritz Leiber, and Ray Bradbury led the fantasy pack. They'd all been around forever, as far as my literary world was concerned. This was my tradition. Is it the same tradition Staffs & Starships is talking about?

Hell yes, it is.

My early science fiction exposure was about ideas. Some of them were big ideas, like an artificial world shaped like a ring with a diameter of millions of miles, or a self-evolving race of machines bent on the destruction of all organic life. Others were smaller ideas, such as the loss of social interaction as robots dominate the menial tasks of the world. Big ideas are fun as thought exercises, but when it comes right down to it, it's the smaller ideas that thrilled me. How is John Q. Everyman going to deal with the issues on a human level? That, to me, is a story . . .

From the same article:

. . .Like taking the very last bite of an outstandingly-prepared ribeye only to find it mostly gristle, I feel the concluding stories of this collection leave something amiss in what is otherwise a gathering of brilliantly-written speculative fiction. They can't all be gems, and one need only reread the first issue of Staffs & Starships to be reminded it is an achievement that's rarely seen. Most every collection of short fiction - whether it be an anthology or a magazine - is hit or miss. That Staffs & Starships is almost entirely hit (and bullseyes, to boot) proves that editors Waltz and Dryden have talent for spotting talent. This magazine comes highly recommended by your humble reviewer, who will have purchased a 4-issue-per-year subscription by the time you read these word. I hope you enjoy reading Staffs & Starships Magazine as much as I have, though there's little doubt about that . . .

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