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Back in the eighties and nineties, there was a strong small press sf magazine scene in the UK. Only a handful of the magazines paid for submissions - usually, all you got was a free copy of the issue. Quite a few well-known writers got their start in those mags - Stephen Baxter, for example, was first published in Dream Magazine, a small press mag. Even if you weren't paid, you still counted it as publication. Although I do wonder how many of those early apprentice works have dropped off people's cv's...