I just received advance copies of the February 2008 issue of SCI FI magazine, which won’t be officially on sale until December 10. Zachary Quinto’s face isn’t on the cover due to a Heroes article—he’s there because we decided to make our cover feature this time around a sneak peek at the upcoming Star Trek film. It’s by far the longest lead sneak peek we’ve ever done, since the film is still more than a year away.

Also covered in the issue are the movies Cloverfield, The Water Horse, One Missed Call, Fanboys, The Eye, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and Jumper, plus the new TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Ghost Hunters International.

It occurs to me that I’ve been editing this magazine for just a few months over eleven years now, starting when it was still a licensed product put out by Sovereign Media, publishers of Realms of Fantasy. It was still titled Sci-Fi Entertainment back then, and except for a gap of about a year and a half after I left Sovereign and until I started working directly for the SCI FI Channel and my new bosses decided to publish the magazine directly on their own, I’ve edited it since the November 1996 issue. Even subtracting out that gap, the time now exceeds the years I spent editing Science Fiction Age magazine from 1992 through 2000.

By the way, the longest running still-active continuously serving science-fiction magazine editor is Stanley Schmidt, who has been in charge of Analog Science Fiction since 1978. An amazing feat, but remarkably, even he has a few years to go to catch up with John W. Campbell, Jr., who edited the magazine from 1938 to 1971!