The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine. It was first published in 1949 by Fantasy House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak’s Mercury Press. The magazine was published in digest format, rather than pulp, and printed a mixture of classic stories and fresh material.
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine. It was first published in 1949 by Fantasy House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak’s Mercury Press. F&SF quickly became one of the leading magazines in the science fiction and fantasy field, with a reputation for publishing literary material and including more diverse stories than its competitors. The magazine was published in digest format, rather than pulp, and printed a mixture of classic stories and fresh material. Well-known stories that appeared in its early years include Richard Matheson’s \”Born of Man and Woman\”, and Ward Moore’s Bring the Jubilee, a novel of an alternative history in which the South has won the American Civil War. The first magazine dedicated to fantasy, Weird Tales, appeared in 1923; it was followed in 1926 by Amazing Stories, the first science fiction magazine. In the early 1940s Anthony Boucher, a successful writer of fantasy and sf mystery stories, got to know Fred Dannay through his work on the Ellery Queen radio show. The following year, Boucher and J. Francis McComas suggested that the new magazine could use the name The Magazine of fantasy. The name was changed with the second issue, and the title was changed correspondingly with the third issue. In 1962, Avram Davidson was succeeded by Robert Mills, who was responsible for publishing Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys, Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein and the first of Brian Aldiss’s Hothouse stories.
In 1991, Kristine Kathryn Rusch took over the editorship, who began including more horror and dark fantasy than had appeared under Ferman. In 1997, Gordon Van Gelder replaced Rusch in 1997, and bought the magazine from Ferman in 2001, but circulation continued to fall, and by 2011 it was below 15,000. Charles Coleman Finlay took over as editor in 2015, and he is still in charge of the magazine today. The last issue was published on October 31, 2015. The cover of the latest issue is by Ed Emshwiller, the author of The Dark Tower, a series of novels based on Stephen King’s The Darktower series. It is available in hardback, paperback, and e-book, with prices starting at $9.99 (US) and $15 (UK) for the hardback edition with a two-year-old hardback version available for $20 (US). The cover is by Chesley Bonestell, Kelly Freas, and Ed EMShwiller. It has been published in a single column format, which in the opinion of science fiction historian Mike Ashley gave it the air and authority of a superior magazine; it had no interior illustrations, no letter column, and text in a one-column format. It also featured cover art by George Salter, Mercury Press’s art director, but other artists soon began to appear.
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