Happy Result at Chinese Science Fiction Magazine Science Fiction World?

There's an update on the turmoil at Chinese SF magazine Science Fiction World. As reported in an earlier blog post, the whole staff of that magazine -- the world's largest science-fiction magazine -- had demanded that the magazine's leader leave. They were protesting his moves such as requiring the staff (and not professional freelancers) write the stories in the magazine and create the art, and replacing the magazine's stunning cover art with advertisements.

Science Fiction Blog reports that the leader in question was fired at the beginning of this month. The writer notes that such a unified act by the staff of resisting an authority is rare in China.

For a more in-depth report, read the World SF News Blog.

Turmoil, Dissention Reported at China's Science Fiction World Magazine

The Science Fiction Blog reprints a Chinese news report about conflict between editors and the president of the company that publishes Science Fiction World, reportedly the world's largest SF magazine.

According to the article, the editors are rebelling against drastic cost-cutting that has forced them to try to write the stories themselves, and for the art staff to do the illustrations themselves (rather than pay professional fiction writers and artists to do so).

The company's president looks pretty bad in the report, but frankly this is too far away and the reports too unclear at this point to know if it's as bad as it seems. After all, the president would have to be a dunderhead to expect editors to write the fiction, unless they just happened to be accomplished fiction authors in addition to being editors. So, while reserving judgment, we'll call him guilty. (Ain't blogging great?)