The few remaining print science fiction and fantasy magazines have suffered declining circulations for years, despite the soaring popularity of science fiction and fantasy in novels, movies and games, and despite a proliferation of year's-best anthologies that mine the print magazines' pages for stories to reprint. Now Locus Online reports that the best fantasy magazine of the past half-century, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, is cutting its frequency from monthly to bimonthly.
Continously published since fall 1949, and monthly since 1952, F&SF has published too many classic and influential fantasy stories to list here. They include Zenna Henderson's People series, Manly Wade Wellman's Silver John series, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series, Stephen King's Dark Tower series, Robert Bloch's "That Hell-Bound Train," Roger Zelazny's "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth," Robert Aickman's "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal," Harlan Ellison's "The Deathbird" and "Jeffty Is Five," Robert Silverberg's "Born with the Dead," Kim Stanley Robinson's "Black Air," Ursula K. Le Guin's "Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out Tonight," Joe Haldeman's "Graves," Jack Cady's "The Night We Buried Road Dog" ... on and on.
If those of you who love fantasy fiction each bought one subscription to F&SF or another fantasy fiction magazine -- for yourself or as a gift for someone, including a library, school or shelter -- you would do the field a great service. Links are in the right-hand column of this blog, under "General Resources."
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