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News January 14, 2020

Fantasy & Science Fiction Jan/Feb 2020

Contents Pages
Essa Hansen “Save, Salve, Shelter”
Matthew Hughes “Air of the Overworld”
Michael Cassutt “Banshee”
Charles de Lint: Books to Look For
—Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs
—The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
—The Green Man’s Foe by Juliet E. McKenna
—The Man Who Wouldn’t Die by A.B. Jewell
—The Slab by Jeffrey J. Mariotte
—Belladonna University Box Set by Tansy Rayner Roberts
—Halloween is Not a Verb by Tansy Rayner Roberts
C.C. Finlay: Recommended Reading
—A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
—Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
—Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
—Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
—Joanna Russ by Gwyneth Jones
—Monstress and Monstress Volume Four: The Chosen by Marjorie Lin & Sana Takeda
—Farmhand by Rob Guillory
Alex Irvine “Chisel and Chime”
Elaine Vilar Madruga “Elsinore Revolution” translated by Toshiya Kamei
Albert E. Cowdrey “Falling Angel”
Julianna Baggott “The Key to Composing Human Skin”
Corey Flintoff “Interlude in Arcadia”
Karin Lowachee’s Films: Ad Astra Per Corde
Jerry Oltion’s Science: Where’s My Flying Car?
Auston Habershaw “Three Gowns for Clara”
Melissa Marr “The Nameless”
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
Rahul Kanakia “The Leader Principle”
Coming Attractions
F&SF Market Place
Rich Horton’s Curiosities: Man’s Mortality by Michael Arlin

Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol. 138 No. 1 and 2, No. 747, Jan/Feb 2020
Publisher: Gordon Van Gelder
Editor: C.C. Finlay
Assistant Publishers: Barbara J. Norton, Keith Kahla
Assistant Editors: Robin O’Connor, Stephen L. Mazur, Lisa Rogers
Contests Editor: Carol Pinchefsky
Cover: Max Bertolini
Cartoons: Nick Downes, Arthur Masear, Arthur Masear, Kendra Allenby
258 pages, $8.99 on newsstands until March 2, 2020
Fantasy & Science Fiction website

News November 24, 2019

Fantasy & Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2019

Contents Pages
Michael Libling “How I Came To Write Fantasy”
Benjamin Rosenbaum “Rejoice, My Brothers and Sisters”
Charlotte Ashley “The Joy in Wounding”
Charles de Lint: Books to Look For
—The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
—Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley
—Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma
—Ragged Alice by Gareth L. Powell
—Shadow Hunter by BR Kingsolver
—Night Stalker by BR Kingsolver
Michelle West: Musing on Books
—The Gossamer Mage by Julie E. Czerneda
—Fall, or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
—Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Matthew Hughes “A Geas of the Purple School”
M. Rickert “Evergreen”
Gregor Hartmann “A Hand at the Service of Darkness”
James Morrow “Bird Thou Never Wert”
Jane Yolen “Swing Between” (verse)
Rebecca Zahabi “It Never Snows in Snowtown”
David J. Skal’s Television: Those Were the Days
Jerry Oltion’s Science: Portable Power
F&SF Competition #98 “Titles as Acronyms”
F&SF Competition #99: Ignorance is Bliss
Marie Vibbert “Knit Three, Save Four”
Andy Stewart “The Vicious World of Birds”
Sam J. Miller “Shucked”
Coming Attractions
F&SF Market Place
Index to Volumes 136 & 137 Jan–Dec 2019
Paul Di Filippo’s Curiosities: The Arrogant History of White Ben by Clemence Dane (1939)

Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol. 137 No. 5 and 6, No. 746, Nov/Dect 2019
Publisher: Gordon Van Gelder
Editor: C.C. Finlay
Assistant Publishers: Barbara J. Norton, Keith Kahla
Assistant Editors: Robin O’Connor, Stephen L. Mazur, Lisa Rogers
Contests Editor: Carol Pinchefsky
Cover: Bob Eggleton
Cartoons: Nick Downes
258 pages, $8.99 on newsstands until Jan. 6, 2020
Fantasy & Sc ience Fiction website

News September 15, 2019

Fantasy & Science Fiction Sep/Oct 2019

As Gordon Van Gelder promised in TDE10, “Our 70th anniversary issue is going to be good one.”

Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol. 137 No. 3 and 4, No. 745, Sep/Oct 2019
Contents
Kelly Link “The White Cat’s Divorce”
Paolo Bacigalupi “American Gold Mine”
Y.M. Pang “Little Inn on the Jianghu”
Mary Soon Lee “Last Human in the Olympics” (verse)
Robert Silverberg: Three Score and Ten
Charles de Lint: Books to Look For
James Sallis: Books
Michael Moorcock “Kabul”
Maureen McHugh “Under the Hill”
Amanda Hollander “Madness Afoot”
Nick Wolven “The Light on Eldoreth”
Elizabeth Bear “Erase, Erase, Erase”
Karin Lowachee: Films—Love Death + Some Regression
Jerry Oltion: Science—Net Up or Net Down?
Paul De Filippo: Plumage From Pegasus—A Giraffe Yoked to an Ox: A Review of Flora Columbia: Goddess of a New Age
Jeff Crandall “Halstead IV” (verse)
Ken Liu “Booksavr”
Esther Friesner “The Wrong Badger”
Michael Swanwick “Ghost Ships”
Gardner Dozois “Homecoming”
Coming Attractions
Market Place
Thomas Kaufsek’s Curiosities—Science Fiction: Complete with Everything: Aliens, Giant Ants, Space Cadets, Robots, and One Plucky Girl by No-Frills Entertainment (1981)

Publisher: Gordon Van Gelder
Editor: C.C. Finlay
Assistant Publishers: Barbara J. Norton, Keith Kahla
Assistant Editors: Robin O’Connor, Stephen L. Mazur, Lisa Rogers
Contests Editor: Carol Pinchefsky
Cover: David A. Hardy
Cartoons: Mark Heath, Danny Shanahan
258 pages, $8.99 on newsstands until Nov. 4, 2019
Fantasy & Science Fiction website

Reviews July 15, 2019

Unearthed Death

Stories from Fantasy & Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2017:

In the intro to “Unearthed Death,” Marissa Lingen reveals a little of the inspiration behind her story. “Sometimes I write to try to teach myself compassion. Sometimes I even succeed.”

Osrith is a messenger of the gods who visits the dying. Her task is to connect her “clients” with one of the gods for the afterlife, or the alternative—the boneyard, the place for those the gods have rejected. “Unearthed” provides a strong finish for the issue’s fiction.

News June 27, 2019

Fantasy & Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2019

Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol. 137 No. 1 and 2, No. 744, Jul/Aug 2019
Contents
Cassandra Khaw “Mighty Are the Meek and the Myriad”
Deborah Coates “Girls Who Never Stood a Chance”
Mary Soon Lee “To Skeptics” (verse)
Theodore McCombs “Lacuna Heights”
Charles de Lint: Books to Look For
Michelle West: Musing on Books
G.V. Anderson “A Strange Uncertain Light”
Dominica Phetteplace “Nice for What”
Albert E. Cowdrey “The Legacy”
Andrej Kokoulin “The Slave” translated by Alex Shvartsman
David J. Skal’s Films: Sequel, Califragilistic
Jerry Oltion’s Science: How Vaccines Work
Paul Di Filippo’s Plumage From Pegasus: What Reads Me Next?
Beth Cato “My Ghost Will Know the Way” (verse)
Eliza Rose “Planet Doykeit”
Molly Gloss “The Everlasting Humming of the Earth”
Alex Irvine “The Legend of Wolfgang Robotkiller”
Coming Attractions
Market Place
David Langford’s Curiosities: The Mind of Mr. Soames by Charles Eric Maine (1961)

Publisher: Gordon Van Gelder
Editor: C.C. Finlay
Assistant Publishers: Barbara J. Norton, Keith Kahla
Assistant Editors: Robin O’Connor, Stephen L. Mazur, Lisa Rogers
Contests Editor: Carol Pinchefsky
Cover: Mondolithic Studios
Cartoons: Nick Downes, Arthur Mascar
258 pages, $8.99 on newsstands until Sept. 2, 2019
Fantasy & Science Fiction website

News June 12, 2019

Cover Preview

Publisher Gordon Van Gelder shares this advance look at the cover to the Jul/Aug issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction, by Mondolithic Sudios, coming to newsstands in July. You’ll see the cover art before its typography was added in The Digest Enthusiast No. 10, which I hope to be able to release tomorrow.

Reviews June 5, 2019

Sean Adams’ Delivery Obstruction

Stories from Fantasy & Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2017:

Sean Adams tells his tale, “An Obstruction to Delivery,” in 31 numbered reports. The postal service has gone underground, delivering mail via a massive network of tunnels, enabling recipients to pick up their daily distribution of letters and packages from a box in their basements. The reporterly format distances the narrator from story’s events, amplifying their absurdity. While I admire the unusual approach, the distance delayed engagement with the action until deep into the story.

News May 27, 2019

Fantasy & Science Fiction May/Jun 2019

Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol. 136 No. 5 and 6, No. 743, May/Jun 2019
Contents
Andy Dudak “The Abundance”
Kelly Barnhill “Thirty-Three Wicked Daughters”
Mary Soon Lee “Guinevere” (verse)
Bruce McAllister “Breath”
Charles de Lint: Books to Look For
Elizabeth Hand: Books
Lavie Tidhar “New Atlantis”
Gretchen Tessmer “From Tierra de Fuego to the Moluccas” (verse)
David Gullen “The Moss Kings”
Debbie Urbanski “How to Kiss a Hojacki”
Pip Coen “Second Skin”
Karin Lowachee’s Films: Bird Box Never Quite Takes Off
Jerry Oltion’s Science: How to Calculate an Orbit
F&SF Competition #97: “Watered Down”
F&SF Competition #98: Titles as Acronyms
Matthew Hughes “Sternutative Sortilege”
Rebecca Campbell “The Fourth Trimester Is the Strangest”
Tobias S. Buckell “Apocalypse Considered through a Helix of Semiprecious Foods and Recipes”
Coming Attractions
Market Place
Paul Di Filippo’s Curiosities: Atomsk, by Cordwainer Smith (1949)

Publisher: Gordon Van Gelder
Editor: C.C. Finlay
Assistant Publishers: Barbara J. Norton, Keith Kahla
Assistant Editors: Robin O’Connor, Stephen L. Mazur, Lisa Rogers
Contests Editor: Carol Pinchefsky
Cover: Cory and Catska Ench “New Atlantis”
Cartoons: Danny Shanahan, Arthur Mascar, S. Harris
258 pages, $8.99 on newsstands until July 1, 2019
Fantasy & Science Fiction website

Reviews May 26, 2019

Justin C. Key’s Afiya’s Song

Stories from Fantasy & Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2017:

The song is the fantasy element in “Afiya’s Song,” the issue’s final novelette by Justin C. Key. It’s a brutal account of slavery in the deep south. The song’s magical powers transport Afiya and those she teaches to sing it to a far better place, helping them survive the horrors of their imprisonment.

News March 16, 2019

Fantasy and Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2019

Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol. 136 No. 3 and 4, No. 742, Mar/Apr 2019
Contents
Gregor Hartmann “The Unbearable Lightness of Bullets”
Matthew Hughes “The Plot Against Fantucco’s Armor”
S. Qiouyi Lu “At Your Dream’s Edge”
Charles de Lint: Books to Look For
Michelle West: Musing on Books
Mary Soon Lee “In the Caverns of the Moon” (verse)
Sophie M. White “Away” (verse)
R.S. Benedict “All of Me”
Tina Connolly “miscellaneous notes from the time an alien came to band camp disguised as my alto sax”
John Kessel “The Mark of Cain”
Diana Peterfreund “Playscape”
Margaret Killjoy “The Free Orcs of Cascadia”
Paul Park “Dear Sir or Madam”
Jerry Oltion’s Science: E.T. Shmee-T
David J. Skal’s Films: The Yawning Abyss
Jerome Stueart “Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun”
Nick DiChario “Bella and the Blessed Stone”
Rich Larson “Contagion’s Eve at the House Noctambulous”
Coming Attractions
Market Place
Graham Andrews’ Curiosities: The Brontés Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson (1931)

Publisher: Gordon Van Gelder
Editor: C.C. Finlay
Assistant Publishers: Barbara J. Norton, Keith Kahla
Assistant Editors: Robin O’Connor, Stephen L. Mazur, Lisa Rogers
Contests Editor: Carol Pinchefsky
Cover: Ken Bash “Contagion’s Eve at the House Noctambulous”
Cartoons: Nick Downes, Bill Long, Arthur Mascar, Danny Shanahan
258 pages, $8.99 on newsstands until April 29, 2019
Fantasy & Science Fiction website