The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/Jun 2023

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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

The Dire DelusionMatthew Hughes
A Truth So Loyal and ViciousFatima Taqvi

Short Stories

On The Mysterious Events at RosettaFawaz Al-Matrouk
AmritKiran Kaur Saini
In Time, All Foxes Grieve WestwardLark Morgan Lu
A Conjure-Horse in San OuvidoFerdison Cayetano
Highway RequiemT. R. Napper
The Lucky StarDr. Bunny McFadden
For the Benefit of Mr. KhiteZig Zag Claybourne
Time And ArtBarbara Krasnoff
I Paint the Light with My Mother’s BonesK. J. Aspey
We Are Happy to Serve YouMargaret Dunlap
Titan RetreatRia Rees
Knotty GirlMelissa A. Watkins

Poems

By StarlightGretchen Tessmer
SilverlocksGretchen Tessmer
The Wren in the HoldShaoni C. White
Without Any Sound but the SeaShaoni C. White
Project ExodusJ. A. Pak

Departments

Editorial: Meteoric, LunarSheree Renée Thomas
Books To Look ForCharles de Lint
Films: Embodying Buddha in After YangKarin Lowachee
Films: Sand, Through an HourglassDavid J. Skal
Coming Attractions    
Chapter And VerseAlex Jennings
Science: Fun in the SunJerry Oltion
CuriositiesPaul Di Filippo

CARTOONS: Arthur Masear, Lynn Hsu, Nick Downes.

COVER BY MAURIZIO MANZIERI FOR “THE DIRE DELUSION”

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