Baen's Astounding Stories

I just read this at Baen's Bar:

After some back and forth between us and the people who claim to own the trademark for the name "Astounding," we've decided it isn't worth the hassle of squabbling with them about it.

They have been visited, I take it, by the same suits who came to talk with me.

This is disappointing. I was rooting for Baen on this one. The name Astounding is not a strong trademark, and it hasn't been used in 40 years. I don't know how the suits manage to defend it.

Baen is having a contest to name the new zine. How about Baen's Science Fiction Magazine? This is what it should have been from the beginning, anyway. I guess they wanted that pulp SF feel in their title. Well, so did I, but I got to Astounding Tales first. Arthur and I are thinking that the March issue of Astounding Tales will be our last - two years is a good run. They can have the name cheap in June, along with 1000 hits a day traffic, which is a good start for a web page.