The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2022

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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

Sacrificial DronesJohn Shirley
Optimist Cleaver’s LastJ. C. Hsyu
Transmission    
Crypt CurrencySara Ellis
To Carve Home In Your BonesAigner Loren Wilson

Short Stories

Though The Heavens FallLouis Evans
The Shotgun LuciferBennett North
Child Of Two WorldsVida Cruz-Borja
IconophobeSam J. Miller
Skin Of The BeastAlexander Flores
Santa KnowsJo Miles
Water MusicMichael A. Gonzales

Poems

CauldronCrystal Sidell
Queen Of CupsCrystal Sidell
FamiliarShelly Jones
Final GatheringJay Sturner
From BelowJay Sturner

Departments

Editorial: Bah! Humbug!Sheree Renée Thomas
The Holiday Blues    
Books To Look ForCharles de Lint
Musing On BooksMichelle West
BooksJames Sallis
By The Numbers 6Arley Sorg
Science: Color It BlueJerry Oltion
Index To Volumes 142 & 143    
Coming Attractions    
CuriositiesChet Weise

CARTOONS: Arthur Masear.

COVER BY MONDOLITHIC STUDIOS FOR “SACRIFICIAL DRONES”

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