Editorial Product Review:Item Description:One of the longest-running and most highly regarded magazines in the field, F&SF is the original publisher of Stephen King's Gunslinger stories, Daniel Keyes' 'Flowers for Algernon,' and many other classics.
Product Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
More related to this product:
click for more
More related to this product:
Buyer Reviews
Average Buyer Rating:
-
Excellent read
As an aspiring science fiction short story writer, I have been avidly reading Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov's and Analog. I like these magazines immensely. Fantasy and Science Fiction is simply excellent. I enjoy the writing and recommend it highly for all fantasy and science fiction fans. As I work long hours and want to spend quality time with my family (I have a wife, two young boys, an old dog, a puppy, two frogs, and a big goldfish), I now opt for reading a short story before bedtime (to my sons if it's age appropriate) rather than reading a few chapters of a novel (I do that too, but if it's really good, I'm up really late).
Fantasy and Science Fiction is terrific. Well worth the lolly!
Cheers!
Customer Rating: -
A Proven Track Record of Excellence
Fantasy&ScienceFiction magazine has been around since 1949, and is in my opinion one of the better SciFi and fantasy mags on the market. It has a proven track record of publishing outstanding short stories, novellas, and novelettes that have later gone on to win Hugo, Nebula, and dark fantasy awards, which brings me to the 2006 June issue of the magazine: The June issue features an outstanding and very creepy novella entitled Hallucigenia by Laird Barron. I predict an award for this chilling novella, which will be just another in a long and esteemed list of award worthy tales from Fantasy&ScienceFiction.
Barron's story could be classed as a Cthulhu Mythos tale, although no where does the author allude to H.P. Lovecraft's works. It is simply that the recurring theme is a recognizable one to us Mythos fans.
Highly recommended reading, and worth the subscription price.
Customer Rating: 
-
The Best Digest for Fantasy
With its cheap pricetag and thick size, Fantasy & Science Fiction is definately one of the best. It splits it pages into fantasy & science fiction stories and novellas with a few common columns between (book reviews and strange facts). If you write fantasy or science fiction, pick magazine up.
Customer Rating: -
THE GOLD STANDARD...
Once upon a time this little magazine serialized The Gunslinger. I cannot give it any higher personal praise than that. But if you still need some convincing...
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is the gold standard in its genres (which are broader than the title might initially seem to suggest--there are all kinds of Fantasy and Science Fiction--and this magazine also features some horror from time to time). What Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock's Magazine are to mystery, F&SF is to, well, F&SF.
I have met some of my favorite authors in the pages of this magazine. Most recently, I read a great short story, "Finding Beauty," by Lisa Goldstein. I intend to read some of her novels as soon as I can get my hands on them.
The excellent review by David Roy below covers the nuts and bolts description of this magazine pretty well, so I won't repeat what he has so concisely said already.
I will however, make a nod to Charles de Lint's excellent column. If you are a voracious reader like me, you will find it of great worth and use.
I encourage you to not only check out, but support Fantasy and Science Fiction. This great publication is a jewel and well worth the money and time spent reading.
Fantasy and Science Fiction gets my full recommendation.