Friday 10 May 2013

Darker Horizons from Miniature Wargames



I recently picked up this magazine from e-bay. Darker Horizons was a one-off publication by Atlantic Publishers - the publishers of Miniature Wargames. The magazine is a 52 page standard format layout and published in Winter 2011 with a cover price of £4.25. Until quite recently DH was featured on the Atlantic Publishing Home page, see this link.

Until I saw this mag. on e-bay, I thought that Darker Horizons was a planned publication. I had not realised that there had actually been a printed copy! Silly me.

The first illustration shows the cover and the second the contents page. for more detail you can 'click' on the image for a larger view.


This introduction was written by Andrew Hubback (editor) and Dave Clubmember. Once again you can 'click' on the image for a larger view and a great read.


(Images taken from the Internet for review purposes only and used without permission - should there be a problem, I can and will remove them)

With the decision of Atlantic Publishing to re-launch Miniature Wargames with Battlegames under the new editor Henry Hyde, the DH title will remain in-house for possible and future Sci-Fi themed publications.

I have not yet read the magazine from cover-to-cover, but the articles I have read have been well worth the bidding cost and postage.

I regret that at this moment there is no traditionally published Sci-Fi/Fantasy focused magazine like DH, with Ragnarok (SFSFW) being published on an ad-hoc basis and others like The Ancible being downloadable only. In the current economic climate I would suggest that there are few brave enough to take a chance on launching such a publication.

For further comments see this post.

Tony

2 comments:

Gavin Syme (GBS) said...

I can't say too much on this as I was involved on the fringes with Atlantic in the push to get Darker Horizons onto the shelves of every 'smiths in the UK.

Sadly the publishers not only decided not to go ahead but also decided to 'reorganise' to a large degree. Will it be a mistake...who knows.

Anyway I would like to thank Gary M and Andrew H for featuring me in their pages and for the thousand USEME's it sold.

Enjoy the magazine Tony!

GBS

John Lambshead said...

Missed this, will pick up a copy.