3 hours ago
FYI: this is not Asimov's Science Fiction, the pulp sci fi magazine, found along with Analog Science Fiction and Fact at convenience stores near me, but something else.
43 minutes ago
Asimov's and Analog are struggling too
38 minutes ago
https://www.asimov.press/about
>We are an editorially-independent part of [Asimov](https://www.asimov.com/).
It seems to be a vanity publication for some kind of genetic engineering company.
4 hours ago
It feels like a quick intro on what Asimov Press was in the first place would've been a good idea.
an hour ago
If you don't know what Asimov Press is then you're probably not the target audience for a post about Asimov Press not publishing for a while.
4 hours ago
It's there, just a few paragraphs in and also on https://www.asimov.press/about, it's not that hard to find if you are really curious.
3 hours ago
Yeah.
I get the impression that if you're uninterested in either reading enough of the press release to get to the parts where they mention what they did, or navigating to the top-level index for the blog, where what they write about is made very plain, then you're not the type of person who would give any shits about what they write about.
2 hours ago
No, it was just a poorly structured announcement
43 minutes ago
It’s an announcement published for their followers and distributed through their own channels to those people. That it doesn’t make sense when detached from that context and put on HN to people with no knowledge of who they are seems very much irrelevant to the goals of writing the post?
2 hours ago
That's, like, your opinion, man.
4 hours ago
I just started reading Asimov press. It has a weird name, I thought they were a sci-fi publishing company at first.
It had a unique blend of popular science writing that was sorely missing from the internet. Alas I hardly knew thee.
4 hours ago
Isaac Asimov vote a huge amount of popular science book as well. They just have a shorter shelf life.
3 hours ago
I enjoyed his “science for the layman” books, a lot more than his sci-fi stuff.
He was really good at explaining very complex stuff, in a simple, approachable manner.
2 hours ago
My mother bought me "The Planet that Wasn't" when I was a kid - excellent book that I re-read many times:
2 hours ago
The question is, has this had anything to do with Asimov the writer? Was he involved at the start or endorsed it somehow?
Judging by the .press domain it's too new for that.
4 hours ago
Truly sad to see this go so soon.
an hour ago
I doubt anyone here cared and was reading for free for years. This "pausing" post got them the highest hearts and comments on their substack.
The problem is, they are not charging when they should.