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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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Titles to Look Out For:
[in ascending order from earliest to latest work published]
March 1976, Volume 50, Number 3. Whole No. 298
June 1977, Volume 52, Number 6. Whole No. 313
April 1985, Volume 68, Number 4. Whole No. 407

About the Magazine: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a United States fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Fantasy House, a subsidiary of Laurence Spivak's "Mercury Press"

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Ferman, Edward L. (ed.). The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1976, Volume 50, No. 3, Whole No. 298, published by Mercury Press Inc in the United States, 160pp. Condition: fair, wholly intact and readable with foxing to the internal pages and some slight rubbing and creasing to the cover edges and corners. Price: £6.00, not including post and packing
1976, Mercury Press, magazine
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  • March 1976 [top]
    Including Venture Science Fiction
    Edited by Edward L. Ferman; Science Editor: Isaac Asimov; Assistant Editor: Anne W. Deraps. Cover by Jack Gaughan for "Piper at the Gates of Dawn"
    Volume 50, No. 3, Whole No. 298. Published in February 1976 in the United States by Mercury Press, Inc., 160pp; original price when first sold: $1.00 per copy, 50p in the UK

Contents:
NOVELLA: Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Richard Cowper
NOVELET: A Stillness at Sordera

SHORT STORIES:
Positively The Last Pact With - The Devil? by J. O. Jeppson
Changing Styles by Gordon Eklund
Brain Diver by Charles W. Runyon
Ride, Colonel, Ride! by Mary-Carter Robert
Final Cut by Larry Tritten

DEPARTMENTS:
Books by Algis Budrys
Cartoon by Gahan Wilson
Films: Space 1949 (Cont.d) by Baird Searles
Science: The Nightfall Effect by Isaac Asimov
An Extrusion of Lions (Verse) by Bertrand Gironel
F&SF Competition
Ferman, Edward L. (ed.) 'The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1977', published in May 1977 in the United States, 162pp. Condition: fair, or acceptable condition - wholly intact & readable, with slightly worn cover edges and corners, and some mild foxing to the internal pages (tanning or browning effect which deepens as the paper ages). Price: £5.50, not including post and packing
1977, Mercury Press, magazine
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  • June 1977 [top]
    Including Venture Science Fiction
    Edited by Edward L. Ferman; Science Editor: Isaac Asimov; Assistant Editor: Anne W. Burke. Cover by Rick Sternbach for "The Star Eel"
    Volume 52, No. 6, Whole No. 313
    Published in May 1977 in the United States by Mercury Press, Inc., 162pp; original prices when first sold: $1.00 per copy, 50p in the UK

Contents:
NOVELETS: The Mars Ship by Robert Thurston
Not With a Bang but a Peep by Gary Jennings

SHORT STORIES:
Nina by Robert Bloch
The Star Eel by Robert F. Young
The Holdouts by Kit Reed
The Horse Lord by Lisa Tuttle
The Final Close by J.P. Dixon
The Exiled, the Hunted by George Guthridge

DEPARTMENTS:
Books by Algis Budrys
An Unsolicited Submission (verse) by Deborah Crawford
Films: Jolly Juvenalia by Baird Searles
Cartoon by Gahan Wilson
Science: "The Final Collapse" by Isaac Asimov
Index to Volume 52

1985, Mercury Press, magazine
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  • April 1985 [top]
    Including Venture Science Fiction
    Edited and Published by Edward L. Ferman; Associate Editor: Anne Jordan; Assistant Editors: Becky Williams & David Michael Buskus; Science Columnist: Isaac Asimov; Book Review Editor: Algis Budrys
    Cover by Paul Chadwick for "Collectible"
    Volume 68, No. 4, Whole No. 407
    Published in March 1985 by Mercury Press, Inc., 160pp; original prices when first sold: $1.75 U.S., Canada $2.00 and UK £1.65

Contents:
NOVELLA: To the Storming Gulf by Gregory Benford
NOVELET: The Shadow of the Starlight by Gael Baudino

SHORT STORIES:
Send Me A Kiss by Wire by Hilbert Schenck
The SF Book of Lists by Larry Tritten
The Snail Out of Space by Phyllis Eisenstein
Collectible by Alan Dean Foster; Rift by Robert Grossbach

DEPARTMENTS:
Books by Algis Budrys
Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison
Science: Forcing the Lines by Isaac Asimov
Acrostic Puzzle by Rachel Cosgrove Payes

Cover by Paul Chadwick for "Collectible"

 
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