The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer 2024

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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 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

On My Way to HeavenAlberto Chimal
Another Such VictoryAlbert Chu
Growth Rings of the EarthXinwei Kong

Short Stories

What It Means to DriftRajeev Prasad
Mister YellowChristina Bauer
Water BabyTonya R. Moore
Metis in the Belly of the GodNina Kiriki Hoffman
She’s a RescueMarie Vibbert
SnowdropRaul Caner Cruz
Dog PeopleEsther Friesner
What You Leave BehindKen Altabef
Jacob StreetL. Marie Wood
Red Ochre, Ivory BoneDeborah L. Davitt
The Glass AppleIvy Grimes
SlickerthinPhoenix Alexander

Poems

In Her FootstepsSuzanne J. Willis
I, MagicianJulie Eliopoulos
City as Fairy TaleRichard Leis
In a castle far from every princeMarisca Pichette

Departments

Editorial: Playing the ChangesSheree Renée Thomas
Books To Look ForCharles de Lint
Films: Rebel MootKarin Lowachee
Chapter and VerseAlex Jennings
Science: Newton vs. MachJerry Oltion
Competition #106    
CuriositiesRichard Horton

CARTOONS: Nick Downes, Sam Hamm, Mark Heath, Arthur Masear.

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