Michael Libling

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
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Contents
Sheila Williams’ Editorial: Thirty-Third Annual Reads’ Awards’ Results
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: Rereading Shiel
Holly Day “All the Weight” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Deep Reading
Peter Payack “Surfing at Night” (verse)
Mercurio D. Rivera “In the Stillness Between Stars”
Megan Arkenberg “All in Green Went My Love Riding”
Jane Yolen “Brambles” (verse)
Andy Duncan “Charlie Tells Another One”
Next Issue
Sandra McDonald “Messages”
Lawrence Watt-Evans “Personal Space”
Leslie J. Anderson “The Celestial Body” (verse)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Escaping Amnthra”
James Sallis “When We Saved the World”
Jenny Blackford “Nine hypotheses concerning a mysterious lump under the rug on the foyer floor” (verse)
Eric Del Carlo “The, When”
Rich Larson “Can You Watch My Stuff”
Stephanie Feldman “The Albatwitch Chorus”
Michael Libling “At the Old Wooden Synagogue on Janower Street”
Gord Sellar “Winter Wheat”
Kendall Evans “E.A. Poe’s Electro-Mechanical Raven” (verse)
Paul Di Filippo: On Books
Classified Marketplace
Erwin Strauss: SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 43 No. 9 & 10, whole No. 524 & 525, Sep/Oct 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Dominic Harman
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until Oct. 22, 2018
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