The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – July/August 2021

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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King’s Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz. Each double-sized bimonthly issue offers:
compelling short fiction by writers such as Kelly Link, Mary Robinette Kowal, Michael Moorcock and many others;
the science fiction field’s most respected and outspoken opinions on Books, Films and Science;
humor from our cartoonists and writers.

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NOVELETS
(emet)   –   Lauren Ring
Cat Ladies   –   L.X. Beckett
And for My Next Trick, I Have Disappeared   –   Chimedum Ohaegbu

SHORT STORIES
Whatever Happened to the Boy Who Fell into the Lake?   –   Rob Costello
Dreadnought   –   Michael Swanwick
Her Garden, the Size of Her Palm   –   Yukimi Ogawa
Tulip Fever   –   Bo Balder
The Penitent   –   Phoenix Alexander
How to Train Your Demon   –   Lisa Lacey Liscoumb
Woman, Soldier, Girl   –   Priya Chand
Bridge for Sale   –   S. Cameron David
Picass-O-Matic   –   Paula Keane
Minotaur   –   Maia Brown-Jackson
Perdition   –   Rowan Wren
Mamá Chayo’s Magic Lesson   –   Tato Navarrete Díaz

POEMS
I Had the Dark: Ged Speaks   –   Mark Rich

DEPARTMENTS
Editorial: Fragments of Ourselves   –   Sheree Renée Thomas
Books to Look For   –   Charles de Lint
Musing on Books   –   Michelle West
By the Numbers #3   –   Arley Sorg
Coming Attractions   –
Films: More Ghostly Mansions   –   David J. Skal
Science: Running Hot and Cold   –   Jerry Oltion
Curiosities   –   Paul Di Filippo

CARTOONS
Kendra Allenby, Arthur Masear, Arthur Masear, Mark Heath, Nick Downes, Danny Shanahan.

COVER
Alan M. Clark for “Dreadnought”

 

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