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| title               = The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
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| image_file          = Cover of October 1952 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.jpg
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| image_alt           = Magazine cover depicting a view of a ringed planet from the surface of another planet or moon
| image_caption       = An early issue, with an astronomical cover painting by [[Chesley Bonestell]]
| editor              = [[Sheree Renée Thomas]]
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| category            = [[fantasy fiction magazine|Fantasy]] and [[science fiction magazine|science fiction]]
| frequency           = Bimonthly
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| founder             = {{ubl|[[Anthony Boucher]]|[[J. Francis McComas]]|[[Lawrence E. Spivak|Lawrence Spivak]]}}
| founded             = 1949
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| company             = Spilogale, Inc.
| country             = United States
| based               = [[Hoboken, New Jersey]]
| language            = English
| website             = {{URL|https://fandsf.com}} 
| issn                = 0024-984X
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'''''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''''' (usually referred to as '''''F&SF''''') is a U.S. [[fantasy fiction magazine|fantasy]] and [[science-fiction magazine]], first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of [[Lawrence E. Spivak|Lawrence Spivak]]'s [[Mercury Publications|Mercury Press]].  Editors [[Anthony Boucher]] and [[J. Francis McComas]] had approached Spivak in the mid-1940s about creating a fantasy companion to Spivak's existing mystery title, ''[[Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine]]''.  The first issue was titled ''The Magazine of Fantasy'', but the decision was quickly made to include science fiction as well as fantasy, and the title was changed correspondingly with the second issue.  ''F&SF'' was quite different in presentation from the existing science-fiction magazines of the day, most of which were in [[pulp magazine|pulp]] format: it had no interior illustrations, no letter column, and text in a single-column format, which in the opinion of science-fiction historian [[Mike Ashley (writer)|Mike Ashley]] "set ''F&SF'' apart, giving it the air and authority of a superior magazine".<ref name=":5"/>

''F&SF'' quickly became one of the leading magazines in the science-fiction and fantasy fields, with a reputation for publishing literary material and including more diverse stories than its competitors.  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 [[alternate history|alternative history]] in which the South has won the [[American Civil War]].  McComas left for health reasons in 1954, but Boucher continued as sole editor until 1958, winning the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Magazine that year, a feat his successor, [[Robert P. Mills|Robert Mills]], repeated in the next two years.  Mills was responsible for publishing ''[[Flowers for Algernon]]'' by [[Daniel Keyes]], ''[[Rogue Moon]]'' by [[Algis Budrys]], ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein|Robert Heinlein]], and the first of [[Brian Aldiss]]'s ''[[Hothouse (novel)|Hothouse]]'' stories.  The first few issues mostly featured cover art by [[George Salter]], Mercury Press's art director, but other artists soon began to appear, including [[Chesley Bonestell]], [[Frank Kelly Freas|Kelly Freas]], and [[Ed Emshwiller]].

In 1962, Mills was succeeded as editor by [[Avram Davidson]].  When Davidson left at the end of 1964, [[Joseph W. Ferman|Joseph Ferman]], who had bought the magazine from Spivak in 1954, took over briefly as editor, though his son [[Edward L. Ferman|Edward]] soon began doing the editorial work under his father's supervision.  At the start of 1966, Edward Ferman was listed as editor, and four years later, he acquired the magazine from his father and moved the editorial offices to his house in Connecticut.  Ferman remained editor for over 25 years, and published many well-received stories, including [[Fritz Leiber]]'s "[[Ill Met in Lankhmar]]", [[Robert Silverberg]]'s "[[Born with the Dead]]", and [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower (series)|The Dark Tower]]'' series.  In 1991, he turned the editorship over to [[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]], who began including more [[horror fiction|horror]] and [[dark fantasy]] than had appeared under Ferman.  In the mid-1990s, circulation began to decline; most American magazines were losing subscribers and ''F&SF'' was no exception. [[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 from Van Gelder as editor in 2015. [[Sheree Renée Thomas]] succeeded Charles Coleman Finlay, becoming the magazine's 10th editor in the fall of 2020.

''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' was purchased in February 2025, along with ''[[Asimov's Science Fiction]]'' and ''[[Analog Science Fiction]]'', by Must Read Books Publishing.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 11, 2025 |title=Details on the New Owners of Analog, Asimov's, and F&SF |url=https://locusmag.com/2025/03/details-on-the-new-owners-of-analog-asimovs-and-fsf/ |access-date=April 30, 2025 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}</ref>
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| colspan="13" style="font-size: 8pt; text-align:left" |Issues of ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' from 1949 to 2024, showing volume and issue number. The apparent errors in numbering in January 1958 and July 1960 are given correctly. <u>Underlining</u> indicates an issue was titled as a quarterly (e.g. "Fall 1949") rather a monthly. The colours indicate the editor:
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{{legend|ccffff|[[Anthony Boucher]] and [[J. Francis McComas]]{{nbsp|3}}|outline=gray}}
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{{legend|c2d69a|[[Robert P. Mills|Robert Mills]]|outline=gray}}
{{legend|fac090|[[Avram Davidson]]|outline=gray}}
{{legend|e6b9b8|[[Joseph Ferman]]|outline=gray}}
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{{legend|ffff99|[[Edward Ferman]]|outline=gray}}
{{legend|92d050|[[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]]|outline=gray}}
{{legend|c9c9c9|[[Gordon van Gelder]]|outline=gray}}
{{legend|4a88e0|[[Charles Coleman Finlay]]|outline=gray}}
{{legend|00ff00|[[Sheree Thomas]]|outline=gray}}
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=== Lawrence Spivak ===
[[File:Lawrence Spivak 1960.jpg|thumb|[[Lawrence Spivak]] in 1960|alt=Head shot of a man in a suit wearing glasses|left]]
The first magazine dedicated to fantasy, ''[[Weird Tales]]'', appeared in 1923;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/weird_tales|title=Culture : Weird Tales : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|last=Ashley|first=Mike|website=sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=January 29, 2017}}</ref> it was followed in 1926 by ''[[Amazing Stories]]'', the first science fiction (sf) magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/amazing|title=Culture : Amazing Stories : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|last1=Ashley|first1=Mike|last2=Nicholls|first2=Peter|website=sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=January 29, 2017|last3=Stableford|first3=Brian}}</ref>  By the end of the 1930s, the genre was flourishing in the United States, nearly twenty new sf and fantasy titles appearing between 1938 and 1941.<ref>Ashley (2000), pp. 237–255.</ref>  These were all [[pulp magazine]]s, which meant that despite the occasional high-quality story, most of the magazines presented badly written fiction and were regarded as trash by many readers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pulp|title=Culture : Pulp : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|last1=Nicholls|first1=Peter|last2=Ashley|first2=Mike|website=sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=January 29, 2017}}</ref>  In 1941, ''[[Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine]]'' appeared, edited by [[Frederic Dannay|Fred Dannay]] and focusing on detective fiction.  The magazine was published in [[digest size|digest format]], rather than pulp, and printed a mixture of classic stories and fresh material.<ref name=":3">Ashley (2000), pp. 20–21.</ref>  Dannay attempted to avoid the sensationalist fiction appearing in the pulps, and soon made the magazine a success.<ref name=":1">Marks (2008), p. 105.</ref>

In the early 1940s [[Anthony Boucher]], a successful writer of fantasy and sf and also of mystery stories, got to know Dannay through his work on the [[The Adventures of Ellery Queen (radio program)|Ellery Queen radio show]].  Boucher also knew [[J. Francis McComas]], an editor who shared his interest in fantasy and SF.  By 1944 McComas and Boucher became interested in the idea of a fantasy companion to ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'', and spoke to Dannay about it.  Dannay was interested in the idea, but paper was scarce because of [[World War II]].<ref name=":1"/>  The following year Boucher and McComas suggested that the new magazine could use the Ellery Queen name, but Dannay knew little about fantasy and suggested instead that they approach [[Lawrence E. Spivak|Lawrence Spivak]], the owner of Mercury Press, which published ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine''.<ref name=":1"/><ref name="Clareson391"/>

In January 1946, Boucher and McComas went to New York and met with Spivak, who let them know later in the year that he wanted to go ahead.  At Spivak's request they began acquiring material for the new magazine, including a new story by [[Raymond Chandler]], and reprint rights to stories by [[H.P. Lovecraft]], [[John Dickson Carr]], and [[Robert Bloch]].  Spivak initially planned the first issue (for which Boucher and McComas were proposing the title ''Fantasy and Horror'') for early 1947, but repeatedly delayed the launch because of poor newsstand sales of digest magazines.  He also suggested that it should be priced at 35 cents an issue, which was higher than the original plan, to provide a financial buffer against poor sales.<ref>Marks (2008), pp. 106–107.</ref>  In May 1949 Spivak suggested a new title, ''The Magazine of Fantasy'', and in August a press release announced that the magazine would appear in October.<ref name=":4">Marks (2008), p. 107.</ref>  On October 6, 1949, Spivak, Boucher and McComas held a luncheon at the [[Waldorf-Astoria Hotel|Waldorf-Astoria]] in New York City to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and to launch "a new fantasy anthology periodical".<ref name=":2">Marks (2008), p. 108.</ref>  Invitees included Carr, [[Basil Rathbone]], and [[Boris Karloff]].<ref name=":2"/>

The first issue, published by Fantasy House, a subsidiary of American Mercury,<ref name=":0"/> sold 57,000 copies, which was less than Spivak had hoped for, but in November he gave Boucher and McComas the go-ahead for another issue.  The title was changed to ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' (almost always abbreviated to ''F&SF'' by both fans and science fiction historians) to reflect the contents.<ref name=":2"/>  Sales of the second issue were strong enough for Spivak to commit further, and the magazine's future became more assured, despite the difficulties caused by the fact that both Boucher and McComas lived on the west coast, whereas the magazine's publishing offices were in New York.<ref>Marks (2008), pp. 108–109.</ref>  The publishing schedule moved to bimonthly with the December 1950 issue.<ref name="Clareson391">Clareson (1985), p. 391.</ref>  The pay rate for the early issues was two cents per word, or $100 for short pieces, which was competitive with ''[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Astounding Science Fiction]]'', the leading sf magazine of the day.<ref>del Rey (1979), p. 170.</ref><ref>McComas (1982), pp. 7–13.</ref>  By 1953 the rates had changed to three-and-a-half cents per word for stories under 3,000 words.<ref>de Camp (1953), p. 113.</ref>

In 1951, McComas, who had a full-time job in sales on top of his role as editor of ''F&SF'', was forced to reduce his workload for health reasons.<ref name="Mark110">Marks (2008), p. 110.</ref>{{#tag:ref|McComas's salary was reduced, and he described his new role as retiring to "a consulting position".<ref name="Mark110"/> |group=note}}  Boucher then did most of the reading and editing, while McComas reviewed the results and occasionally vetoed a story.  In August the following year the schedule switched to monthly.<ref name="Mark110"/>  In 1954 Spivak sold his shares in Mercury Press to his general manager, [[Joseph W. Ferman|Joseph Ferman]];<ref name="Clareson391"/><ref name="Mark110"/><ref>Ashley (2005), p. 21.</ref> that year also saw McComas's departure—his health had deteriorated to the point where he had to give up the editing post completely.<ref name="Mark110"/>

=== The Fermans and Gordon Van Gelder ===
[[File:Van Gelder, Gordon (WFA).jpg|thumb|Gordon Van Gelder in 2007|alt=Head shot of a man at a microphone]]

In 1957 Ferman launched a companion magazine, ''[[Venture Science Fiction]]'', which was intended to focus on more action-oriented fiction than ''F&SF''.<ref>De Larber (1985), p. 705.</ref>  Boucher was unable to take on the extra work, so [[Robert P. Mills]], who had been the managing editor for ''F&SF'', became ''Venture''{{'}}s editor, with Boucher in an advisory role.<ref>Ashley (2005), p. 170.</ref>  Later that year Ferman sold ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' to [[Bernard George Davis|Bernard Davis]], who was leaving [[Ziff Davis|Ziff-Davis]] to start his own publishing venture.  Ferman retained ''F&SF'', though Boucher departed, and Mills became the editor of ''F&SF'' while remaining managing editor of Queen's magazine.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Advertising: 2 Big Agencies Study a Merger|last=Spielvogel|first=Carl|date=August 14, 1957|work=[[The New York Times]]|page=34}}</ref><ref>De Larber (1985), p. 380.</ref><ref name="Ashley 2005, p. 171">Ashley (2005), p. 171.</ref>  Mills stayed for over three years, leaving at the end of 1961 to spend more time working as a literary agent, and Ferman replaced him with [[Avram Davidson]], whose name first appeared on the masthead with the April 1962 issue.<ref name=":9">Ashley (2005), p. 217.</ref>  Joseph Ferman's son Edward had worked for the magazine as an editorial assistant in the 1950s, but left in 1959 to gain experience elsewhere; he returned in 1962, and worked under Davidson as managing editor.<ref name="GTF89">Ashley (2007), p. 89.</ref>  In 1963 [[Ted White (author)|Ted White]], later the editor of ''Amazing Stories'', became assistant editor, and stayed with the magazine until 1968.<ref>Ashley (2007), p. 72.</ref>

Davidson gave up the editor's chair in late 1964 in order to have more time to write, and was initially replaced by Joseph Ferman, who handed over control to his son Edward from May 1965, though the masthead did not reflect the change till 1966.<ref>Ashley (2005), p. 219.</ref>{{#tag:ref|[[Isaac Asimov]], in his autobiography, says that he was the one to suggest Edward Ferman take over as editor.<ref name="GTF89"/>|group=note}}  Four years later the younger Ferman took over from his father as publisher as well,<ref name=":0" /> and moved the editorial and publishing offices to his house in [[Cornwall, Connecticut]].<ref name=":10"/>  His wife, Audrey, was business manager, and [[Andrew I. Porter|Andrew Porter]] was an assistant editor.<ref name=":10"/>  In the early 1970s Ferman contacted [[Sol Cohen]], the owner of ''Amazing Stories'' and ''[[Fantastic (magazine)|Fantastic Stories]]'', two competing sf magazines, about purchasing them both.  Ferman was considering combining them into a single magazine and publishing them alongside ''F&SF'', but Cohen decided to keep both titles.<ref>Ashley (2007), p. 84.</ref>

In 1969, an issue of ''F&SF'' was priced at 50 cents; by the end of the 1970s the price had gone up to $1.25, although the page count also rose, from 128 to 160 pages.<ref name=":12">Ashley (2007), pp. 86–87.</ref><ref name="Clareson391"/>  Circulation did not suffer, but rose from 50,000 to over 60,000, partly because of subscription drives through [[Publishers Clearing House|Publishers' Clearing House]], and perhaps also because the magazine's quality remained consistent throughout the decade.<ref name=":12"/><ref>Ashley (2007), p. 326.</ref>  In Ashley's words, "''F&SF'' delivered the goods month after month":<ref name=":12"/> the schedule was reliable, the format remained unchanged, and the editor remained the same from 1965 throughout the next two decades and more.<ref name=":13">Ashley (2007), p. 88.</ref><ref>Ashley (2007), p. 386.</ref>  Ferman managed to keep the circulation above 50,000, and sometimes above 60,000, during the 1980s.<ref name="Ashley 2016, p. 441">Ashley (2016), p. 441.</ref>  He turned over the editorship to [[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]] in 1991, and by the mid-1990s circulation began to fall again.  In 1997 Gordon Van Gelder took over as editor, and from the February 2001 issue was publisher as well, having bought the magazine from Ferman.<ref name=":0"/> [[John Joseph Adams]] was Van Gelder's assistant editor from 2001 until December 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2017/03/john-joseph-adams-the-stars-his-destination/ |title=Locus Online Perspectives » John Joseph Adams: The Stars His Destination |website=www.locusmag.com|date=5 March 2017 |language=en|access-date=2017-04-26}}</ref>  Van Gelder was unable to arrest the decline in circulation, which by 2011 was down to less than 15,000.  Van Gelder reduced the publication frequency to bimonthly, increasing the page count and price.<ref name=":0"/>  Charles Coleman Finlay guest-edited the July/August 2014 issue,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Langford |first=David R. |date=July 3, 2023 |title=Finlay, C C |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/finlay_c_c |access-date=May 4, 2025 |website=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction}}</ref> and was hired in 2015 as full-time editor, beginning with the March/April 2015 issue.<ref name=":0"/>  Sheree Renée Thomas was hired as editor, beginning with the March/April 2021 issue.<ref name=":122">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2020/11/12/sheree-renee-thomas-is-the-new-editor-for-the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction/|title=Sheree Renée Thomas Is the New Editor for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction|website=tor.com|date=12 November 2020|language=en|access-date=2021-03-06}}</ref>

== Contents and reception ==

=== Boucher, McComas, Mills and Davidson ===
Boucher and McComas's original goal for the new magazine was to imitate the formula that had made ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' successful: classic reprints, along with quality fiction that avoided the excesses of the pulps.<ref name=":3"/>  The initial proposal called for the magazine to include fantasy, but not science fiction.  Even before the launch, the editors found they were having trouble deciding exactly where the boundary lay, so when in February 1949 Joseph Ferman, Spivak's general manager, asked them to add sf to the lineup as a way to broaden the readership, they were happy to comply.<ref name=":4"/>  The first issue included only one story that could be called science fiction: [[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s "The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast"; it also included reprints from the [[slick (magazine format)|slick]] magazines by writers such as [[Richard Sale (director)|Richard Sale]], and [[Guy Endore]].  The interior layout was quite different from the existing fantasy and sf magazines: there were no interior illustrations, and the text was printed in a single column, instead of two as was usual elsewhere.  There was a book review column, but no letters page.  According to sf historian Mike Ashley, this "set ''F&SF'' apart, giving it the air and authority of a superior magazine".<ref name=":5">Ashley (2005), pp. 21–22.</ref>  The logo design and layout were the work of Mercury Press's art director, George Salter, whose background was in book design rather than in pulp magazines.<ref name=":5"/>  Salter remained with the magazine until 1958.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/salter_george|title=Authors : Salter, George : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|last=Clute|first=John|website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=February 24, 2017}}</ref>  He was responsible for many of the surreal early covers; these gave way to work by other artists, but his design for ''F&SF'' remained intact for decades, and in Ashley's opinion the consistency of appearance has been "one of the major selling points" of the magazine.<ref>Ashley (2007), p. 10.</ref>

When the second issue appeared, with the title revised to include "Science Fiction", there was no announcement of the change, and not much more science fiction than in the first issue.<ref name=":5"/> [[Damon Knight]] contributed one example, "Not with a Bang", which Knight has described as his first fully professional story.<ref>Knight (1997), pp. 10–12.</ref>  The next issue included [[Richard Matheson]]'s first sale, "[[Born of Man and Woman]]", widely considered one of the finest stories ''F&SF'' ever published.  Over the next few years several writers became strongly associated with the magazine, including [[Margaret St. Clair]], [[Reginald Bretnor]], [[Miriam Allen deFord]], and [[Zenna Henderson]], and Boucher was also able to attract some of the best-known established names, such as [[Arthur C. Clarke]], [[Fritz Leiber]], and [[Ray Bradbury]]. [[Fletcher Pratt]] and [[L. Sprague de Camp]] began their "[[Tales from Gavagan's Bar|Gavagan's Bar]]" series of stories in the first issue of ''F&SF'', and [[Manly Wade Wellman]] published the first of his "[[John the Balladeer]]" stories in the December 1951 issue.  The focus was on short fiction; [[Serial (literature)|serials]] and novels were mainly avoided.  One exception was [[Ward Moore]]'s ''[[Bring the Jubilee]]'', an [[alternate history|alternative history]] set in a world where the South wins the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=":6">Ashley (2005), p. 24.</ref>  Boucher bought "A Canticle for Leibowitz" from [[Walter M. Miller Jr.|Walter M. Miller]], who had been unable to sell it elsewhere, and printed it in the April 1955 issue; it was the first story in the series that would become [[A Canticle for Leibowitz|the novel of the same name]], and has since become recognized as a classic of the genre.<ref name=":7"/>

A controversial article by the astronomer [[Robert S. Richardson|R.S. Richardson]] titled "The Day After We Land on Mars" appeared in the December 1955 issue;{{#tag:ref|This was an expanded version of an article that had originally appeared in the ''[[Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)|Saturday Review]]''.<ref name="Larbalestier"/><ref>Clarke (2002), p. 429.</ref>|group=note}}<ref name="Larbalestier"/> Richardson commented that an [[space colonization|exploration of other worlds]] would require "the men stationed on a planet [to be] openly accompanied by women to relieve the sexual tensions that develop among normal healthy males".  Responses by [[Poul Anderson]] and Miriam Allen deFord appeared in ''F&SF'' the following year.  DeFord argued that Richardson was assuming that women were not people in the same way as men, and the controversy has since been cited as part of the long debate within the genre about the [[Women in speculative fiction|image of women in science fiction]].<ref>Carter (1977), p. 193.</ref><ref name="Larbalestier">Larbalestier (2002), pp. 135–137.</ref>

In 1958 ''F&SF'' won its first [[Hugo Award]] for Best Magazine, and when Mills became editor that year he maintained the high standards Boucher had set, winning the award again in 1959 and 1960.<ref name=":0"/>  Mills continued to publish a broad range of material without limiting the magazine to particular subgenres.  Ashley cites [[John Collier (fiction writer)|John Collier]], [[Robert Arthur Jr.|Robert Arthur]], [[Allen Drury]], and Ray Bradbury, all authors with mainstream reputations who appeared in ''F&SF'' in 1960, as evidence of the magazine's diversity.<ref name=":7"/> [[Daniel Keyes]] had been unable to sell "[[Flowers for Algernon]]" until Mills bought it in 1959; it went on to win several awards and according to Clute and Nicholls is "arguably the most popular sf novel ever published".<ref name=":7"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://SF-encyclopedia.com/entry/keyes_daniel|title=Authors : Keyes, Daniel : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|last1=Clute|first1=John|last2=Nicholls|first2=Peter|website=sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=February 4, 2017}}</ref>  ''[[Rogue Moon]]'', a novel about a deadly artifact left by [[Extraterrestrials in fiction|aliens on the moon]], is often considered [[Algis Budrys]]'s best novel; it appeared in 1960, and the following year saw [[Brian Aldiss]]'s "Hothouse", the first in [[Hothouse (novel)|that series]].<ref name=":7">Ashley (2005), pp. 215–216.</ref> (Budrys later said that what he described as the "cuteness of the early F&SF school of editing—and its open contempt for the accomplishments of the [[John W. Campbell|Campbellian]] school" had resulted in "buckets and buckets of froth" but, more favorably, "Liberal Arts concepts in what had been almost exclusively a [[Bachelor of Science|B. S.]] field".<ref name="budrys196809">{{Cite magazine
 |last=Budrys
 |first=Algis
 |date=September 1968
 |title=Galaxy Bookshelf
 |url=https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v27n02_1968-09#page/n185/mode/2up
 |magazine=Galaxy Science Fiction
 |pages=187–193
}}</ref>) Zenna Henderson's stories of The People, a group of refugee humanoid aliens hiding on Earth, were published through the 1950s and 1960s and became a "central feature" of the magazine according to sf critic [[John Clute]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=Index by Series/Imprint: Page 44 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/SFI/l00044.htm#A53 |access-date=May 4, 2025 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/henderson_zenna|title=Authors : Henderson, Zenna : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|last=Clute|first=John|website=sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=February 2, 2017}}</ref>  Boucher published Damon Knight's "The Country of the Kind", described by Ashley as "one of his most potent stories from the fifties", in 1956, and the same year, under the pseudonym "Grendel Briarton", Reginald Bretnor began a series of punning stories known as "Feghoots" that lasted until 1964.{{#tag:ref|The Feghoots series was briefly revived in ''Venture Science Fiction'' in 1970, and later in the 1970s in ''[[Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine]]''.<ref name="A2007329_30"/>|group=note}}<ref name="A2007329_30">Ashley (2007), pp. 329–330.</ref>  At the end of the 1950s, during Mills' tenure as editor, [[Robert A. Heinlein|Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' was serialized in ''F&SF'', under the title ''Starship Soldier''; this was intended to be a juvenile novel but was rejected by [[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner's]] for being too violent.  It won the Hugo Award in the novel category the following year, and proved to be one of Heinlein's most controversial books.<ref>Dolman (1997), p. 196.</ref>

[[File:Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction cover 1957 July Mel Hunter.jpg|thumb|One of Mel Hunter's series of robot covers which began in 1955.  This example is from the July 1957 issue.]]

Among the cover artists in the first decade, sf historian and critic Thomas Clareson singles out the early astronomical scenes by [[Chesley Bonestell]] as being the most notable; these were among the first to replace George Salter's surreal artwork on the cover.<ref name=":16"/> [[Frank Kelly Freas|Kelly Freas]] and [[Ed Emshwiller]], two of the most popular artists in the sf field, also contributed covers during the 1950s.<ref name=":16"/><ref>Weinberg (1988), p. 101.</ref><ref>Weinberg (1988), p. 123.</ref> [[Mel Hunter]] began contributing covers with the November 1953 issue, and in October 1955 began a long-running series of covers that depicted a [[artificial intelligence|robot survivor]] of a [[nuclear holocaust]] engaging in human activities amidst the desolation—watering a flower, playing with toys, or reading a store catalog, for example.<ref>Weinberg (1988), p. 153.</ref><ref>Hardy (1978), p. 133.</ref><ref name=":23">{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/fsf.html |access-date=December 11, 2025 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref>  A regular book review column appeared, titled "Recommended Reading"; it was signed simply "The Editors" until McComas ceased to be one of the co-editors, after which Boucher used his own name.<ref name=":8"/>  According to Clareson, the column "long remained the most catholic appraisal of the field" because of the variety of works reviewed.<ref name=":16">Clareson (1985), p. 381.</ref>  Boucher did not review his own fiction in the column, though on at least one occasion he listed a new book of his, telling the reader: "Comments eagerly welcomed; in this case, you are the reviewer".<ref name=":8">Marks (2008), p. 140.</ref>  When Boucher left, he was succeeded by Damon Knight as book reviewer; [[Alfred Bester]] took over in 1960 and remained in the role until Avram Davidson became the book reviewer when he took the editorial chair.<ref>Clareson (1985), pp. 380–381.</ref> [[Isaac Asimov]] had begun a series of science articles for ''Venture Science Fiction'' in January 1958, and when ''Venture'' was cancelled Mills brought the science column over to ''F&SF''.<ref name="Ashley 2005, p. 171"/><ref name=":9"/> The column, which according to Asimov he enjoyed writing more than any of his other works, ran for decades without interruption, helping to contribute to a long-standing feeling of consistency and continuity in ''F&SF''{{'}}s format and contents.<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":9"/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/nightfallotherst00asim#page/298/mode/2up|title=Nightfall, and other stories|last=Asimov|first=Isaac|date=1969|publisher=Doubleday|pages=299}}</ref>

Avram Davidson, who became editor in 1962, had sold his first story to ''F&SF'' in 1954, though he was better remembered for "The Golem", which appeared in the March 1955 issue.<ref>Ashley (2005), p. 111.</ref>  Under Davidson more work appeared by non-English-speaking writers such as [[Hugo Correa]], [[Herbert W. Franke|Herbert Franke]], and [[Shinichi Hoshi|Shin'ishi Hoshi]].  Notable stories he acquired for ''F&SF'' include [[Terry Carr]]'s first sale, "Who Sups with the Devil?", in 1962, and [[Roger Zelazny]]'s "[[A Rose for Ecclesiastes]]" in November 1963.  He published two "author special" issues: Theodore Sturgeon was featured in the September 1962 issue, and Ray Bradbury in May 1963.  These author issues, which had been Joseph Ferman's idea, became a regular feature, with subsequent issues featuring Isaac Asimov (October 1966), Fritz Leiber (July 1969), Poul Anderson (April 1971), [[James Blish]] (April 1972), [[Frederik Pohl]] (September 1973), [[Robert Silverberg]] (April 1974), Damon Knight (November 1976), [[Harlan Ellison]] (July 1977), [[Stephen King]] (December 1990), [[Lucius Shepard]] (March 2001), [[Kate Wilhelm]] (September 2001), [[Barry N. Malzberg]] (June 2003), [[Gene Wolfe]] (April 2007), and [[David Gerrold]] (September/October 2016).<ref name=":0"/>

=== Edward Ferman ===
Joseph Ferman's son, Edward Ferman, was managing editor during Davidson's tenure as editor.  When Davidson left, Joseph Ferman took over the editorial chair, but in reality Edward Ferman was doing all the editorial work, and by the May 1965 issue was in full control of the magazine.  It remained eclectic through the 1960s and 1970s, publishing work by [[New Wave science fiction|New Wave]] writers such as [[Thomas M. Disch|Thomas Disch]] and [[John Sladek]], along with new US writers such as [[Samuel R. Delany|Samuel Delany]] and Roger Zelazny, hard science fiction stories by [[Gregory Benford]] and [[John Varley (author)|John Varley]], fantasies by [[Sterling Lanier]] and [[Tom Reamy]], and horror by [[Charles L. Grant]] and [[Stephen King]].<ref name=":0"/>  The mid-1960s saw an increase in the diversity of stories appearing elsewhere in the field; magazines like ''[[New Worlds (magazine)|New Worlds]]'' and ''[[Science Fantasy (magazine)|Science Fantasy]]'' published material that previously could only have appeared in ''F&SF''.<ref name=":21"/>  Sf author Christopher Priest, writing in 1978, commented that many writers later considered part of the New Wave soon found "a natural home for their work" in ''F&SF''.<ref name=":22">Priest (1978), p. 168.</ref>  In Ashley's view the rest of the field was starting to catch up to ''F&SF''{{'}}s open-mindedness, but this did not lead to a drop in ''F&SF''{{'}}s quality; the end of the 1960s saw Ferman printing some old-fashioned material such as [[John Christopher]]'s novel about miniaturization, ''The Little People'', alongside much of Roger Zelazny's early output, and "anarchic and often indefinable" stories by [[R. A. Lafferty|R.A. Lafferty]], Harvey Jacobs, and others.  In 1968, [[Piers Anthony]]'s early novel ''[[Battle Circle|Sos the Rope]]'' was serialized; Anthony had won a competition sponsored in part by ''F&SF''.<ref name=":21">Ashley (2005), pp. 268–270.</ref>

Harlan Ellison and [[James Tiptree Jr.|James Tiptree, Jr.]] were frequent contributors in the 1970s, Tiptree contributing some of her best-known stories, such as "[[And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side]]" and "[[The Women Men Don't See]]"; Ellison's many stories in ''F&SF'' included "[[The Deathbird]]", in 1973, which won a Hugo Award, and "[[Jeffty Is Five]]" in 1977, which won both a Hugo and a [[Nebula Award]].  Other award-winning stories from Ferman's first decade and a half included Fritz Leiber's "Ship of Shadows" in 1969, "[[Ill Met in Lankhmar]]" in 1970, and "[[Catch That Zeppelin]]" in 1975; all three won Hugos, and the latter two also won Nebulas. [[Poul Anderson]]'s "[[The Queen of Air and Darkness (novella)|The Queen of Air and Darkness]]" won both a Hugo and a Nebula, Robert Silverberg's "[[Born with the Dead]]" won a Nebula, and [[Frederik Pohl]]'s novel of Martian colonization, ''[[Man Plus]]'', also won a Nebula.<ref name=":0"/>

[[Judith Merril]] took over the book review column on Davidson's departure, and was followed by James Blish in 1970 and Algis Budrys in 1975, with frequent contributions from other reviewers such as [[Joanna Russ]] and [[Gahan Wilson]].<ref name=":10">Ashley (2007), p. 90.</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 1255 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/k01255.htm#A12 |access-date=May 5, 2025 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Clute |first1=John |last2=Langford |first2=David R. |date=November 18, 2024 |title=SFE: Budrys, Algis |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/budrys_algis |access-date=May 5, 2024 |website=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction}}</ref>  In 1965 Wilson began contributing cartoons, and continued to do so regularly until 1981.<ref name=":10"/>  Ferman set a humorous competition for the readers in the November 1971 issue, and thereafter ran two or three similar competitions every year.<ref name=":15">Ashley (2016), p. 4.</ref>  These were later collected in a 1996 anthology, titled ''Oi, Robot'', the title taken from a competition to add a single letter to a well-known work of SF.<ref>Easton (2006), p. 47.</ref>  A film review column, the first in the magazine since [[Charles Beaumont]]'s "The Science Screen" (and "William Morrison" aka [[Joseph Samachson]]'s live-theater column "The Science Stage") in the latter 1950s, conducted by [[Samuel R. Delany]], commenced in 1969;<ref name=":11" /> [[Baird Searles]] contributed the column between 1970 and 1984.<ref name=":15"/>  Among the later reviewers, Ellison was one of the most popular, and columns from his first four years were collected as ''[[Harlan Ellison's Watching]]'' in 1989.<ref name=":15"/>

''[[Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine]]'' was launched in 1977 and from 1983, under the editorships of [[Shawna McCarthy]] and later [[Gardner Dozois]], it began to publish more mature material, becoming a more direct competitor to ''F&SF''{{'}}s market niche.<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/asimovs|title=Culture : Asimov's Science Fiction : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|last1=Ashley|first1=Mike|last2=Nicholls|first2=Peter|website=sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=February 5, 2017}}</ref>  Authors such as Lucius Shepard, [[James Blaylock]], and [[John Crowley (author)|John Crowley]], whose work was a natural fit for ''F&SF'', were selling to ''Asimov''{{'}}s as well.  The launch of ''[[Omni (magazine)|Omni]]'' in 1978 also had an impact.<ref name=":0"/>  For almost every year in the 1970s stories published in ''F&SF'' won more award nominations, and were selected for more "Year's Best" anthologies, than the other magazines; in the 1980s that was no longer true, as ''Asimov's'' took over the leading role, and ''Omni'' sometimes pushed ''F&SF'' into third place.<ref>Ashley (2007), p. 87.</ref><ref>Ashley (2016), p. 35.</ref>  Ferman was still able to acquire some highly regarded material, such as "Lost Boys" by [[Orson Scott Card]], and ''[[Kirinyaga (short story)|Kirinyaga]]'' by [[Mike Resnick]].<ref name=":0"/>  When ''Omni'' rejected [[George R. R. Martin|George R.R. Martin]]'s "Monkey Treatment" and Gardner Dozois's "Down Among the Dead Men", which were dark fantasy, Ferman acquired both.<ref>Ashley (2016), pp. 39–40.</ref>  Along with these regular columns, Ferman occasionally published articles, such as "Science Fiction and the University", a feature in the May 1972 issue that included contributions from [[Darko Suvin]], Thomas Clareson, and [[William Tenn|Philip Klass]].<ref>Ashley (2007), p. 292.</ref>

''F&SF'' won the [[Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine|Hugo Award for Best Magazine]] for four consecutive years, from 1969 through 1972, when the award was changed to "Best Professional Editor".  Initially this category was dominated by [[Ben Bova]], the editor of ''[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]]'', but Ferman won it for three more years at the start of the 1980s.<ref name=":17">Ashley (2016), p. 2.</ref>

''F&SF'' dominated the early years of the [[Locus Award for Best Magazine]], winning every year from the award's creation in 1971 until 1982. Another winning streak saw it take home the award for every year from 2002-2010.

Some of the artists who had provided covers for early issues of ''F&SF'', including Chesley Bonestell, Ed Emshwiller, and [[Alex Schomburg]], were still contributing their work into the late 1970s,<ref name=":17"/> and many of the regular writers from the early years, such as Reginald Bretnor, [[Ron Goulart]], and [[Hilbert Schenck]], continued to appear in ''F&SF'' into the 1980s.  A newer group, including Joanna Russ and R.A. Lafferty, had become regulars more recently.<ref>Ashley (2016), pp. 5–8.</ref>  Some established writers such as Thomas Disch published their more unusual work in ''F&SF'',<ref>Ashley (2016), p. 7.</ref> and there were also writers such as [[Felix C. Gotschalk]], whose unusual stories were described by Ferman as "a step ahead of most sf writers (or perhaps he's marching in a different direction)".<ref name=":18">Ashley (2016), p. 9.</ref>  In Ashley's opinion, Ferman managed to "balance the work of these eccentric writers so that they never distorted the contents yet kept the magazine on the edge".<ref name=":18"/>

Newer writers who began to appear regularly in the 1980s included [[Bruce Sterling]], who published his early [[Shaper/Mechanist universe|Shaper/Mechanist]] stories in ''F&SF'', beginning with "Swarm", in 1982.<ref name="Ashley 2016, p. 10">Ashley (2016), p. 10.</ref>  Stephen King's "[[The Dark Tower (series)|The Dark Tower]]" series had begun in 1979 in ''F&SF'', and four more stories appeared over the next three years before being collected as a novel in 1982;<ref name="Ashley 2016, p. 10"/><ref>Grant (1997), p. 537.</ref> and [[Michael Shea (author)|Michael Shea]] and [[Bob Leman]] contributed horror and weird fiction regularly in the 1980s.<ref>Ashley (2016), pp. 10–12.</ref>  Despite the increased competition from ''Omni'' and ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'', Ferman managed to keep ''F&SF''{{'}}s reputation for quality intact throughout the 1980s;<ref>Ashley (2016), p. 91.</ref> it was not as distinct from its competition as it had once been, but it retained an "idiosyncratic individuality", in Ashley's words.<ref>Ashley (2016), p. 230.</ref>

=== After Ferman ===
Under Kristine Kathryn Rusch ''F&SF'' began to publish more dark fantasy and horror stories, such as "The Night We Buried Road Dog" by [[Jack Cady]], which won a Nebula Award.  When Rusch took over as editor, Isaac Asimov had been writing the science column for over three decades, and Algis Budrys had been contributing a book review column since 1975; in 1992 Asimov died and Budrys departed.  The science column ran for 399 consecutive issues, ending in February 1992.  Asimov's widow, [[Janet Asimov]], wrote another essay for the December 1994 issue, based on her conversations with her husband before his death, and a final essay appeared in January 1996, containing material from the book ''Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters''.<ref name=":0"/>  The science column continued to appear, written by Bruce Sterling and Gregory Benford among others, and [[John Kessel]] took over the book reviews; Robert Killheffer succeeded Kessel, with some overlap in 1994 and 1995.  ''Asimov's'' maintained its dominance of the field through the 1990s, though Rusch published well-received material such as "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold and "Last Summer at Mars Hill" by [[Elizabeth Hand]].  Rusch won one Hugo Award as editor during her five years at ''F&SF'', in 1994.<ref name=":0"/>

Van Gelder printed more fantasy and less hard science fiction than had Rusch, and in Ashley's opinion he was able to "restore some of the magazine's distinctiveness".  As a result of the switch to bimonthly in 2009, with the resulting higher page count in each issue, the magazine began to publish longer stories.<ref name=":0"/>

=== Assessment ===
''F&SF'' quickly established itself as one of the leading magazines.  Ashley describes it as bridging "the attitude gap between the slick magazines and the pulps"', and argues that it made the genre more respectable.<ref name=":6"/>  The fantasy side of the magazine attracted writers who had been regular contributors to ''Weird Tales'' and ''Unknown'', two of the best-known fantasy pulps, and in Ashley's opinion, it soon found a "middle ground" between those pulp traditions and fantasy written for the slicks.<ref>Ashley (1997), p. 610.</ref>  It was known as the most literary of the science fiction and fantasy magazines, and it published the most diverse range of material.<ref name=":0"/>  In a 1978 review of New Wave SF, Christopher Priest agreed that ''F&SF'' has a bias for literary work, and added that "it has been a sort of New Wave of its own ever since its inception".<ref name=":22"/>

From the 1950s, ''F&SF'' was regarded as one of the "big three" science fiction magazines, along with ''Astounding Science Fiction'' and ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]''.<ref>Ashley (2005), p. 202.</ref><ref>Ashley (2007), p. 11.</ref>  In a review of a 1952 issue, James Blish (writing as William Atheling, Jr.) commented that much of the magazine to that point was wonderfully written, and that Boucher's and McComas's editorial acumen made ''F&SF'' very readable, but that on occasion a well-written, sophisticated, but unoriginal science fiction story might be accepted by ''F&SF'' because it was not a specialist sf magazine.<ref>Atheling (1967), pp. 26–29.</ref>  At the end of the 1950s Kingsley Amis described it as "the most highbrow" of the science fiction magazines,<ref>Amis (1960), p. 126.</ref> and [[Gary K. Wolfe]] later said that ''F&SF'', along with ''Galaxy'', "defined the tenor" of the 1950s.<ref>Wolfe (2003), p. 100.</ref>  In the 1960s, Judith Merril argued that it was Boucher and McComas who made a place in the genre for writers such as Charles Beaumont, Mildred Clingerman, Edgar Pangborn, and many others who, in her opinion, had "virtually stopped writing until the necessary new magazine came along".{{#tag:ref|Quoted by Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove in ''[[Trillion Year Spree]]''.<ref name="TYS269"/><ref>Aldiss & Wingrove (1986), p. 469, note 46.</ref>|group=note}}<ref name="TYS269">Aldiss & Wingrove (1986), p. 269.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=Issue Checklist |url=http://www.philsp.com/resources/sfbri/clm9.htm#A63 |access-date=May 7, 2025 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref>

In 2007, Ashley commented that ''F&SF'' had been "the most consistently enjoyable magazine of the last 50 years".<ref>Ashley (2007), p. 91.</ref>  In his view, a key reason for the magazine's appeal was that its roots were in the literary tradition, with Lawrence Spivak, its first publisher, the inheritor of [[H. L. Mencken|H.L. Mencken]]'s ''[[The American Mercury|American Mercury]]'', which had been successful and widely respected as a literary review.  Unlike most of its competitors, ''F&SF'' had no connection to the pulp magazine era, and its editors had always intended to appeal to readers of books, rather than of magazines.<ref name=":13"/>  Ashley also cites ''F&SF''{{'}}s broad editorial policy, which allowed the magazine to carry a wider range of fiction than its competitors.<ref name=":10"/>  In 2014 [[Gary Westfahl]] praised the "creative editors of the 1980s and 1990s, such as Gardner Dozois ... and Gordon Van Gelder", but added that "such editors were no longer the most important figures in the field".<ref>Westfahl (2014), p. 87.</ref>

== Bibliographic details ==
[[File:F&SF subscription graph.jpg|thumb|440x440px|''F&SF''{{'}}s circulation from 1962 to 1990<ref>Ashley (2007), p. 480.</ref><ref name="Ashley 2016, p. 441"/>]]
As of March 2017, the editorial succession is as follows:<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Ashley |first=Mike |date=April 14, 2025 |title=The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fsf |access-date=May 4, 2025 |website=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Anthony Boucher]] & [[J. Francis McComas]], Fall 1949&nbsp;– August 1954
*Anthony Boucher, September 1954&nbsp;– August 1958
*[[Robert P. Mills]], September 1958&nbsp;– March 1962
*[[Avram Davidson]], April 1962&nbsp;– November 1964
*[[Joseph W. Ferman]], December 1964&nbsp;– December 1965
*[[Edward L. Ferman]], January 1966&nbsp;– June 1991
*[[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]], July 1991&nbsp;– May 1997
*[[Gordon Van Gelder]], June 1997&nbsp;– January 2015
*[[Charles Coleman Finlay]], March/April 2015&nbsp;– January 2021
*[[Sheree Thomas|Sheree Renée Thomas]], March/April 2021&nbsp;– present.<ref>Glyer, Mike. "[http://file770.com/sheree-renee-thomas-is-fsfs-new-editor/ Sheree Renée Thomas Is F&SF’s New Editor]." file770.com, November 3, 2020.</ref> 
The first issue was titled ''The Magazine of Fantasy''; with the second issue the title switched to ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction''.  The magazine has been in [[Digest size|digest format]] since the beginning.<ref name=":0"/>

The publisher was initially Fantasy House, a subsidiary of Mercury Press; from March 1958 the publisher was listed as Mercury Press instead.<ref name="Clareson391"/>  Since February 2001 the publisher has been Van Gelder's Spilogale, Inc.<ref name=":0" />

The following table lists ''F&SF''{{'}}s prices over the years.<ref name="Clareson391"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=Index by Magazine Issue: Page 75 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/SFI/j00075.htm#A171 |access-date=May 4, 2025 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=Index by Magazine Issue: Page 76 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/SFI/j00076.htm#TOP |access-date=May 4, 2025 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=Index by Magazine Issue: Page 77 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/SFI/j00077.htm#TOP |access-date=May 4, 2025 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=Index by Magazine Issue: Page 78 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/SFI/j00078.htm#TOP |access-date=May 4, 2025 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref>  When Joseph Ferman announced the price change in the February 1959 issue, his justification for the increase was that "during the past ten years...paper costs have gone up by 38%, composition, printing, binding and handling costs have gone up by 32%, postages costs have gone up from 33% to 60%, and various other costs have risen as much or more".<ref>Ashley (2005), p. 201.</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
!Date
!Issue price
!Special issue details
|-
|Fall 1949 – January 1959
|35 cents
|October 1958 @ 40 cents
|-
|February 1959 – December 1964
|40 cents
|October 1959 (tenth anniversary) @ 50 cents
|-
|January 1965 – June 1969
|50 cents
|
|-
|July 1969 – October 1971
|60 cents
|
|-
|November 1971 – February 1975
|75 cents
|October 1974 (25th anniversary) @ $1.00
|-
|March 1975 – February 1978
|$1.00
|
|-
|March 1978 – February 1980
|$1.25
|October 1979 (30th anniversary) @ $2.50
|-
|March 1980 – September 1982
|$1.50
|
|-
|October 1982 – December 1988
|$1.75
|
|-
|January 1989 – December 1990
|$2.00
|October 1989 (40th anniversary) @ $2.95
|-
|January 1991 – November 1993
|$2.50
|October/November @ $3.95
|-
|December 1993 – June 1995
|$2.75
|October/November @ $3.95
|-
|July 1995 – January 1997
|$2.95
|October/November @ $4.50
|-
|February 1997 – June 1998
|$2.99
|October/November @ $4.59
|-
|July 1998 – December 2002
|$3.50
|October/November @ $4.59 in 1998 & 2000–2001; $5.95 in 1999; $4.99 in 2002
|-
|January 2003 – December 2007
|$3.99
|October/November @ $4.99 from 2003–2006; $5.99 in 2007
|-
|January 2007 – December 2008
|$4.50
|October/November @ $5.99 in 2008
|-
|January 2009 – March 2009
|$4.99
|
|-
|April/May 2009 – August/September 2009
|$6.50
|October/November @ $7.50
|-
|December 2009 – December 2010
|$7.00
|
|-
|January 2011 – December 2012
|$7.50
|
|-
|January 2013 – December 2016
|$7.99
|
|-
|January 2017 – December 2020
|$8.99
|
|-
|January 2021 –
|$9.99
|
|}

=== Anthologies ===
The following anthologies of fiction from ''F&SF'' have appeared.<ref name=":14">Clareson (1985), pp. 389–390.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ferman_edward_l|title=Authors : Ferman, Edward L : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|last1=Edwards|first1=Malcolm|last2=Clute|first2=John|website=sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=February 26, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/van_gelder_gordon|title=Authors : Van Gelder, Gordon : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|last=Van Gelder|first=Gordon|website=sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=February 26, 2017}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Editor(s)
!Title
!Publisher
|-
|1952
|Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction''
|[[Little, Brown and Company|Little, Brown]]
|-
|1953
|Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Second Series''
|Little, Brown
|-
|1954
|Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Third Series''
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]
|-
|1955
|Anthony Boucher
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fourth Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1956
|Anthony Boucher
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fifth Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1957
|Anthony Boucher
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Sixth Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1958
|Anthony Boucher
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Seventh Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1959
|Anthony Boucher
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Eighth Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1960
|Robert P. Mills
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Ninth Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1960
|Robert P. Mills
|''A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction''
|Doubleday
|-
|1961
|Robert P. Mills
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Tenth Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1962
|Robert P. Mills
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Eleventh Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1963
|Avram Davidson
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Twelfth Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1964
|Avram Davidson
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 13th Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1965
|Avram Davidson
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 14th Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1966
|Edward L. Ferman
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 15th Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1967
|Edward L. Ferman
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 16th Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1968
|Edward L. Ferman
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 17th Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1968
|Edward L. Ferman
|''Once and Future Tales from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction''
|Harris-Wolfe
|-
|1969
|Edward L. Ferman
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 18th Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1970
|Edward L. Ferman & Robert P. Mills
|''Twenty Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction''
|[[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam]]
|-
|1971
|Edward L. Ferman
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 19th Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1973
|Edward L. Ferman
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20th Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1974
|Edward L. Ferman
|''Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Anthology''
|Doubleday
|-
|1977
|Edward L. Ferman
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 22nd Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1980
|Edward L. Ferman
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 23rd Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1982
|Edward L. Ferman
|''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 24th Series''
|Doubleday
|-
|1989
|Edward L. Ferman
|''The Best From Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology''
|St. Martin's
|-
|1994
|Edward L. Ferman & Kristine Kathryn Rusch
|''The Best From Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology''
|St. Martin's
|-
|1999
|Edward L. Ferman & Gordon Van Gelder
|''The Best From Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 50th Anniversary Anthology''
|Tor
|-
|2003
|Gordon Van Gelder
|''One Lamp''
|[[Four Walls Eight Windows]]
|-
|2004
|Gordon Van Gelder
|''In Lands That Never Were''
|[[Thunder's Mouth Press|Thunder's Mouth]]
|-
|2005
|Gordon Van Gelder
|''Fourth Planet from the Sun''
|Thunder's Mouth
|-
|2009
|Gordon Van Gelder
|''The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 60th Anniversary Anthology''
|[[Tachyon Publications|Tachyon]]
|-
|2014
|Gordon Van Gelder
|''The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2''
|Tachyon
|}
In 1981, [[Martin H. Greenberg]] edited a hardcover facsimile edition of the April 1965 issue of ''F&SF'', with the addition of an introduction by Edward Ferman, and memoirs by the authors whose work appeared in the issue.  The book was published by [[Southern Illinois University Press]].<ref name=":14"/>

=== Overseas editions ===
''F&SF'' has had multiple foreign editions, including:
* '''Argentina'''.  ''Minotauro'' (September 1964&nbsp;– June 1968), edited by [[:Es:Francisco Porrúa|Francisco Porrúa]] under the alias Ricardo Gosseyn, and published by [[:Es:Ediciones Minotauro|Ediciones Minotauro]], Buenos Aires.  Ten issues.  The full title was ''Minotauro fantasía y ciencia-ficción''.  ''Minotauro'' did not reprint individual issues of ''F&SF''; instead each issue was filled with stories selected from various issues of ''F&SF.''<ref>Pessina (1985a), p. 849.</ref>  Also ''La revista de ciencia ficción y fantasía'' (October 1976 – February 1977), edited by Marcial Souto and published by Ediciones Orión.  Three issues.  This was primarily a reprint edition of ''F&SF'' but also published some original material.<ref>Ashley (2007), p. 416.</ref>
* '''Australia'''.  ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (November 1954 – August 1958), published by Consolidated Press as a saddle-stapled digest.  14 issues.  The first six issues were 128 pages long, the next 4 were 112 pages, and the last four were 96 pages.  It was priced at 2/- throughout.  The contents were selected from the US magazine but the Australian issues did not correspond to individual issues of the original.<ref name=":14"/>
* '''Brazil'''.  ''Galáxia 2000'' (first issue January 1968), edited by Mario Camarinha, and published by Ediçōes O Cruzeiro.  Four or five issues.  This contains reprints from not only the US edition of ''F&SF'', but also from the French, Italian and Argentinian versions.  This was followed in 1970 by another ''Magazine de Ficçāo Cientifica'', which appeared in April 1970.  The editor was initially Jerônymo Monteiro; he died after two issues and was succeeded by his daughter, Theresa Monteiro.  The publisher was Revista do Globo.  The magazine ran from April 1970 to November 1971, publishing a total of 20 issues, each containing a story by a local writer along with the reprinted material.<ref>Ashley (2016), p. 336.</ref>
* '''France'''.  ''[[:Fr:Fiction (magazine)|Fiction]]'' (October 1953 – February 1990), edited by [[Alain Dorémieux]] for most of its existence.  412 issues.  ''Fiction'' included original French stories as well as translations from the English version of the magazine, and occasionally these French stories subsequently appeared in ''F&SF'', translated into English.  One example is "Les Premiers jour de mai" by [[:Fr:Claude Veillot|Claude Veillot]], which appeared in ''Fiction'' in May 1960 and then as "The First Days of May" in ''F&SF'' in December 1961, translated by Damon Knight.  Since 2005 it has been issued twice a year as a magazine/anthology series.<ref name=":0"/><ref>Thomas (1985), pp. 858–859.</ref>
* '''Germany'''.  A series of anthologies titled ''Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' began appearing in Germany in 1963, published by [[Heyne Verlag|Heyne]].  These contained stories selected from ''F&SF''.  The editor was Charlotte Winheller for issues 1–9; [[Walter Ernsting]] for issues 10–14; Wulf H. Bergner for issues 15–42; and Manfred Kluge from issue 43 until at least 1985.<ref>Rottensteiner & Luserke (1985), p. 869.</ref>
* '''Israel'''''.  Fantasia 2000'' (December 1978 – 1984), edited by Aharon Hauptman and Gabi Peleg; published by A. Tene for the first 15 issues, and thereafter by Hyperion.<ref name=":19"/>  44 issues.<ref>Ashley (2016), p. 248.</ref>  Most of ''Fantasia 2000''{{'}}s contents were translations of material that had originally appeared in ''F&SF'', along with some original stories by Israelis.  It included translations of Asimov's science column, and also included departments that did not originate in ''F&SF'', such as a letters page and non-fiction articles.<ref name=":19">Ben-Yehuda (1985), p. 871.</ref>
* '''Italy'''.  ''Fantascienza'' (November 1954 – May 1955), edited by [[:It:Livio Garzanti|Livio Garzanti]], published by [[Garzanti]] e i [[Fratelli Treves]].  7 issues.  Reprints of issues of ''F&SF''.  Also ''[[:It:Fantasia e Fantascienza|Fantasia & Fantascienza]]'' (December 1962 – October 1963), edited by G. Jori, published by Minerva Editrice.  10 monthly issues, omitting May 1963.  A reprint of ''F&SF'', but it included some original material as well.<ref>Montanari & de Turres (1985), pp. 874–875.</ref> Another series of reprints was published by Elara from 2013 to 2017, for a total of 17 issues with irregular periodicity.<ref>[http://www.elaralibri.it/cat/F+SF/f+sf-017.htm Page at Elara website]</ref>
* '''Japan'''.  ''[[S-F Magazine]]'' (February 1960 – current as of 2017), edited by (among others) [[Masami Fukushima]], [[Ryozo Nagashima]], and [[:ja:今岡清|Imaoka Kiyoshi]].  This began as a reprint edition of ''F&SF'', but soon began printing more original fiction, and as of 2016 is the leading Japanese science fiction magazine, publishing both original material and stories reprinted from a variety of sources.<ref>Shibano (1985), p. 885.</ref><ref>Ashley (2016), p. 250.</ref><ref>Ashley (2007), p. 420.</ref>
* '''Mexico'''.  ''Ciencia y Fantasía'' (September 1955 – December 1957), editor unknown, published by Novaro-México, S.A.  14 issues.  Reprinted from ''F&SF'' by selecting stories from different issues of the original magazine.<ref>Pessina (1985b), p. 887.</ref><ref>Ashley (2005), pp. 304–305.</ref>
* '''Norway'''.  ''{{ill|Nova – Fantastiske Fortellinger|no}}'' (1971–1979), edited by [[:no:Terje Wanberg|Terje Wanberg]], [[Øyvind Myhre]], Per G. Olson, and Johannes H. Berg, published by Stowa Forlag.  34 issues.  Initially titled ''Science Fiction-Magasinet'', it began by reprinting from ''F&SF''; from the fourth issue it began to feature new material.<ref>Berg (1985), pp. 890–891.</ref>
* '''Sweden'''.  ''[[:sv:Jules Verne-Magasinet|Jules Verne Magasinet]]'' (1969–2013), edited and published by Bertil Falk (1969–1971); edited by [[Sam J. Lundwall|Sam Lundwall]] (1972–2013) and published by Askild & Kärnekull (1972), Delta (1973–1983), and Sam J Lundwall Fakta & Fantasi (1983–2010).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jules_verne-magasinet|title=Culture : Jules Verne-Magasinet : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|last1=Holmberg|first1=John-Henri|last2=Langford|first2=David|website=sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=February 26, 2017}}</ref>  Starting with the Askild & Kärnekull issues, and until at least the mid-1980s, this contained a large proportion of reprints from ''F&SF'', along with some original material from other sources.<ref>Holmberg & Lundwall (1985), p. 896.</ref><ref>Ashley (2007), p. 413.</ref>
* '''United Kingdom'''.  Two series, both titled ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''.  The first series was published by Mellifont Press, and ran from October 1953 to September 1954, in digest format, with 128 pages, priced at 1/6.  The contents were taken from the U.S. magazine, but the UK issues did not directly correspond to individual U.S. issues.  The second series was published by Atlas Publishing & Distributing from December 1959 to June 1964, in digest format.  All issues were 128 pages except for January 1961 through November 1961 and March 1962 through June 1964, which were 112 pages.  The price was 2/- from until November 1961, and 2/6 from December 1961 until the end of the run.  As with the first series the reprint issues did not exactly correspond to individual U.S. issues.  After the second series ended, some additional material from the U.S. issues was reprinted in the UK edition of ''[[Venture Science Fiction]]''.<ref name=":14"/>

== See also ==
* {{Portal-inline|Speculative fiction}}
* {{Portal-inline|Literature}}
* {{Portal-inline|Speculative fiction/Horror}}

== Notes ==
{{reflist|30em|group=note}}

== References ==
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* {{cite book |title=The World of Science Fiction: 1926–1976: The History of a Subculture |last=del Rey |first=Lester |publisher=Ballantine |year=1979 |isbn=0-345-25452-X |location=New York |author-link=Lester del Rey |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/worldofsciencefi00delr | ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Political Science Fiction |last=Dolman |first=Everett Carl |publisher=University of South Carolina Press |year=1997 |isbn=1-57003-113-4 |editor-last=Hassler |editor-first=Donald M. |location=Columbia, South Carolina |chapter=Military, Democracy, and the State in Robert A. Heinlein's ''Starship Troopers'' |editor-last2=Wilcox |editor-first2=Clyde | ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Off the Main Sequence |last=Easton |first=Tom |publisher=The Borgo Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0809500215 |author-link=Thomas Easton | ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Fantasy |last=Grant |first=John |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1997 |isbn=0-312-15897-1 |editor-last=Clute |editor-first=John |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffa0000unse_s7g7/page/537 537–539] |chapter=King, Stephen |editor2-last=Grant |editor2-first=John |author-link=John Grant (author) |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffa0000unse_s7g7/page/537 | ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |last=Hardy |first=David |publisher=Octopus Books |year=1978 |isbn=0-7064-0756-3 |editor-last=Holdstock |editor-first=Robert |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofsc0000unse_h7i1/page/122 122–141] |chapter=Art & Artists |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofsc0000unse_h7i1/page/122 | ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines |url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn |url-access=limited |last1=Holmberg |first1=John-Henry |last2=Lundwall |first2=Sam |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1985 |isbn=0-313-21221-X |editor-last=Tymn |editor-first=Marshall B. |location=Westport, Connecticut |pages=[https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn/page/n910 895]–897 |chapter=Sweden |editor2-last=Ashley |editor2-first=Mike |author-link2=Sam J. Lundwall |author-link=John-Henri Holmberg| ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Creating Short Fiction |last=Knight |first=Damon |publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |year=1997 |isbn=0-312-15094-6 |location=New York |author-link=Damon Knight |orig-year=1985 | ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction |last=Larbalestier |first=Justine |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |year=2002 |isbn=0-8195-6526-1 |location=Middletown, Connecticut | ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography |last=Marks |first=Jeffrey |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7864-3320-9 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina | ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=The Eureka Years |last=McComas |first=Annette Pelz |publisher=Bantam |year=1982 |isbn=0-553-20673-7 |editor-last=McComas |editor-first=Annette Pelz |location=New York |pages=5–13 |chapter=The Birth and Growth | ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines |url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn |url-access=limited |last1=Montanari |first1=Gianni |last2=de Turres |first2=Gianfranco |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1985 |isbn=0-313-21221-X |editor-last=Tymn |editor-first=Marshall B. |location=Westport, Connecticut |pages=[https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn/page/n887 872]–884 |chapter=Italy |editor2-last=Ashley |editor2-first=Mike| ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines |url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn |url-access=limited |last=Pessina |first=Hector R. |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1985a |isbn=0-313-21221-X |editor-last=Tymn |editor-first=Marshall B. |location=Westport, Connecticut |pages=[https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn/page/n863 848]–851 |chapter=Argentina |editor2-last=Ashley |editor2-first=Mike| ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines |url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn |url-access=limited |last=Pessina |first=Hector R. |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1985b |isbn=0-313-21221-X |editor-last=Tymn |editor-first=Marshall B. |location=Westport, Connecticut |pages=[https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn/page/n901 886]–887 |chapter=Mexico |editor2-last=Ashley |editor2-first=Mike| ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |last=Priest |first=Christopher |publisher=Octopus Books |year=1978 |isbn=0-7064-0756-3 |editor-last=Holdstock |editor-first=Robert |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofsc0000unse_h7i1/page/162 162–173] |chapter=Art & Artists |author-link=Christopher Priest (novelist) |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofsc0000unse_h7i1/page/162 | ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines |url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn |url-access=limited |last1=Rottensteiner |first1=Franz |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1985 |isbn=0-313-21221-X |editor-last=Tymn |editor-first=Marshall B. |location=Westport, Connecticut |pages=[https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn/page/n877 862]–870 |chapter=Germany |editor2-last=Ashley |editor2-first=Mike |first2=Uwe |last2=Luserke |author-link=Franz Rottensteiner| ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines |url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn |url-access=limited |last=Shibano |first=Takumi |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1985 |isbn=0-313-21221-X |editor-last=Tymn |editor-first=Marshall B. |location=Westport, Connecticut |pages=[https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn/page/n899 884]–886 |chapter=Japan |editor2-last=Ashley |editor2-first=Mike| ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines |url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn |url-access=limited |last=Thomas |first=Pascal J. |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1985 |isbn=0-313-21221-X |editor-last=Tymn |editor-first=Marshall B. |location=Westport, Connecticut |pages=[https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa00tymn/page/n872 857]–862 |chapter=France |editor2-last=Ashley |editor2-first=Mike| ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists |last=Weinberg |first=Robert |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1988 |isbn=0-313-24349-2 |location=Westport, Connecticut |author-link=Robert Weinberg (author)| ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction |last=Westfahl |first=Gary |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-19-983884-4 |editor-last=Latham |editor-first=Rob |location=New York |pages=81–92 |chapter=The Marketplace |author-link=Gary K. Wolfe | ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00jame |url-access=limited |last=Wolfe |first=Gary K. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2003 |isbn=0-521-81626-2 |editor-last=James |editor-first=Edward |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00jame/page/n125 96]–109 |chapter=Science Fiction and its Editors |editor2-last=Mendlesohn |editor2-first=Farah| ref=none}}

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