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calimacThis distinguished SF editor deserves that I should take a moment, as others have, to acknowledge his passing.
I was a regular and enthusiastic reader of his work for a time. This was while he was editor of Galaxy. It was my favorite of the major SF magazines at the time, assuming it still qualified as a major magazine. It was rapidly on its way downhill, but mostly for economic reasons. Baen did his darndest for three years to keep it alive and thriving. Early Varley stories, the serialization of Fred Pohl's Gateway, Spider Robinson's annoying but compulsively readable book reviews, a general human scale and sense of personality: I liked it.
When Baen became a book editor he moved into regions of SF that interested me less, and I didn't follow him much after that. But I was always glad he was around: diversity of tastes and styles enriches the field.
I was a regular and enthusiastic reader of his work for a time. This was while he was editor of Galaxy. It was my favorite of the major SF magazines at the time, assuming it still qualified as a major magazine. It was rapidly on its way downhill, but mostly for economic reasons. Baen did his darndest for three years to keep it alive and thriving. Early Varley stories, the serialization of Fred Pohl's Gateway, Spider Robinson's annoying but compulsively readable book reviews, a general human scale and sense of personality: I liked it.
When Baen became a book editor he moved into regions of SF that interested me less, and I didn't follow him much after that. But I was always glad he was around: diversity of tastes and styles enriches the field.
