F&SF author Chris Willrich emailed me the other day to let me know that he enjoyed The Pirate Issue:

I read the Shimmer Pirate Issue over the holidays and really enjoyed it. My favorite story was Cambias’ "Barbary Shore," but I liked them all. It was especially fun to read all the "classic" pirate stories as a set. Though it left me wanting to stay away from the water!
 

Also, he pointed out that the Santa Clara County library system has six copies of Wastelands in inventory, which he knows, because he works as a librarian there.