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Starlog
Editor David McDonnell
Categories Science fiction
Frequency Monthly
First issue August 1976
Company Starlog Group
Country United States
Website Official site

Starlog is a monthly science-fiction film magazine published by Starlog Group Inc. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Science fiction Film is a Film genre that uses speculative, Science -based depictions of imaginary phenomena such as extra-terrestrial Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally The magazine was created by publishers Kerry O'Quinn and Norman Jacobs. O'Quinn was the magazine's editor while Jacobs ran the business side of things, dealing with typesetters, engravers and printers. They got their start in publishing creating a soap opera magazine. A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. In the mid-1970s, O'Quinn and high school friend David Houston talked about creating a magazine that would cover science fiction-related films and television programs.

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History

O'Quinn came up the idea of publishing a one-time only magazine on the Star Trek phenomenon. Houston's editorial assistant Kirsten Russell suggested that they include an episode guide to all three seasons of the show, interviews with the cast and previously unpublished photographs. During this brainstorming session many questions were raised, most notably legal issues. Houston contacted Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry with the intention of interviewing him for the magazine. Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19 1921 &ndash October 24 1991 was an American Screenwriter and producer. Once they got his approval, O'Quinn and Jacobs proceeded to put together the magazine but Paramount Studios, who owned Star Trek, wanted a minimum royalty that was too much for their costs to cover and the project was shelved. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California.

O'Quinn realized that they could create a magazine that only featured Star Trek content but without it being the focus and therefore getting around the royalties issue. He also realized that this could be the science fiction magazine he and Houston had talked about. Many titles for it were suggested, including Fantastic Films and Starflight before Starlog was picked.

To keep costs down, Starlog was initially a quarterly magazine with the first issue being published on August 1976. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The issue sold out and this encouraged O'Quinn and Jacobs to publish a magazine every six weeks instead of quarterly. O'Quinn was the magazine's first editor with Houston taking over for a year and then replaced by Howard Zimmerman when Houston was promoted to the "Hollywood Bureau. " Zimmerman was eventually succeeded by David McDonnell, who is still the editor of the now-monthly magazine.

Starlog #100
Starlog #100

One of the magazine's milestones was its 100th issue, published on November 1985 and featured who they thought were the 100 most important people in science fiction. This included exclusive interviews with John Carpenter, Peter Cushing, George Lucas, Harlan Ellison, Leonard Nimoy, and Gene Roddenberry. John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American Film director, Screenwriter, producer, film score Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913—11 August 1994 was an English actor known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein George Walton Lucas Jr (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award -winning American Film director, producer, Screenwriter Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American Writer of Short stories, Novellas, Teleplays Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American Actor, Film director, Poet, Musician and

The magazine's 200th issue repeated the format of the 100th issue but this time interviewed such notable artists as Arthur C. Clarke, Tim Burton, William Gibson, Gale Anne Hurd, and Terry Gilliam. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917–19 March 2008 was a British Science fiction Author, Inventor, and Timothy "Tim" William Burton (born August 25 1958 is an American Film director, Screenwriter and Set designer, notable for the quirky William Ford Gibson (born March 17 1948 is an American - Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the Cyberpunk subgenre Gale Anne Hurd (born October 25, 1955 in Los Angeles California) is a Hollywood film producer Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American -born British Writer, Filmmaker, Animator and member

Starlog was one of the first publications to report on the development of the first Star Wars movie, and it also followed the development of what was to eventually become Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope (originally released as Star Wars) is a 1977 Space opera Star Trek The Motion Picture is a 1979 Science fiction film from Paramount Pictures. The magazine is devoted to science fiction films, television series, and books. Many fans of this long-running magazine considered its heyday to have been the 1980s with very little substance to the content in later years and many of its long-time contributors having since moved on. But it continues to boast some top-flight genre journalists, including film historians Will Murray and Tom Weaver. It is one of the longest-running and most popular publications of its type.

It published its 30th Anniversary issue in 2006. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

On Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007 at approximately 11 a. m. a warehouse, operated by Kable News, in Oregon, Illinois containing back issues of Starlog and Fangoria Magazine burned to the ground. (At this point it is not known if the warehouse contained all of the back issues. )

Others

In addition to Starlog, O'Quinn and Jacobs also published dozens of other magazines, including the science/science-fiction hybrid Future Life, Comics Scene, Cinemagic, and Fangoria, which is dedicated to horror films. Comics Scene was a Magazine published in three volumes by Starlog Group Inc Horror films are Movies that strive to elicit Fear, Horror and terror responses from viewers Over the past 30 years, Starlog has produced books, videos, science fiction conventions, trivia books, and more. It has also had a number of foreign editions, including in Japan, Germany, France, The UK, Brazil, and Australia.

After the entire magazine industry took a serious stumble in 2001, Starlog Group was eventually purchased by Creative Group, Inc. , which continues to publish Starlog and Fangoria, and is expanding its franchises into the Internet, satellite radio, video, and TV.

Best science fiction movies by year

In 2002, the magazine announced the best science fiction movies by year. The winners are as follows.

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