Cirsova: Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine

I was really disappointed with this magazine. I am a big fan of Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, and Leigh Brackett, and so the pulp revival is of huge interest to me. Cirsova is one of the premier magazines of the pulp revival, so I had to read a whole issue. Issue #5 seemed to be about a particular setting, a themed issue, so I tried Issue #1 to get a better read of what the editor considers pulpy. The stories were just not of particularly good quality. It's disappointing because the authors and editor clearly want entertaining stories, and they clearly enjoy the work of a different era when short stories strived to be entertaining. Most stories in elite markets written by highly-skilled writers are not entertaining at all, so a publication like Cirsova has its heart in the right place. Sadly these stories, which do strive to be entertaining, are not well-written. As a celebration of the pulp era, this is okay. As literature, it's just not very good.