LostintheDataStream

Walking up to the mall to buy the latest issue of Starlog was a monthly pilgrimage for me. I would usually have the Medialog read on the walk back home, with the latest info about my favourite television shows, as well as upcoming movies and comics. There was also the Film Fantasy Calendar that would tell you when Empire Strikes Back was due to be released, so you could start counting the months.

Next, I would sit and read the Gamelog, Booklog, Videolog and Communications, soaking up all the latest info and reading the comics. I onced had a letter published in Starlog. It was the first time I saw my words and name in print.

Then it was on to the Fan Network and Convention listings. I went to my first Trek convention after reading about it in Starlog.

The articles were the real meat of the issue though. In those pages you could find anything from artist concept drawings of this ship called a Battlestar, to an interview with George Lucas for a new TV series about a Young Indiana Jones. One of my favourite interviews was with a young man named Joe Copeland, who was a stand-in for Mark Hamill during shooting of Return of the Jedi.

Even though it has been years since I bought an issue, more because of cost than a lack of desire to read what was on the horizon in the world of science fiction, it is a sad day for me as well to say goodbye to a piece of nostalgia, but more than that, something that helped fuel my sense of wonder.