The magazine of fantasy and science fiction

[The_African]

I subscribed to this 'zine a couple days ago. Does anyone else read this? Did I make a good (no philosophical arguments on what 'good' means, please) investment?

 

[Doctor Crankenstein]

Haha I'm sorry that was kinda my fault

I miss Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. If it's anything like that then I'd say its a good move

 

[j d worthington]

It has been some time since I last read an issue of F&SF, I must admit... though not due to a drop in quality; simply due originally to a lack of funds and time. But (as far as I know) the magazine still has an enviable reputation for publishing good, literate science fiction and fantasy of a wide variety of flavors; and certainly my experience with it was always very favorable....

 

[J Riff]

With a title like that it's hard to go wrong. MFASF's been around a long time, should give it another look.

 

[jojajihisc]

I've never subscribed to it although I may eventually, but I do buy it once in a while. It is my favorite ahead of Asimov's and Analog, the only two other SF magazines I'm even a little familiar with. I like the brief book reviews and it has been useful for discovering new authors.

 

[Urien]

I get it. The book reviews are often very good. I enjoy the slightly old fashioned lay out. They have some excellent writers and storys. Main gripe; too many of the stories are (for me), ennui laden, sad or indeterminate.

But well worth the price (especially if you subscribe for a couple of years).

I also get Interzone and Black Static. Magazines are fabulous value for money.

 

[AE35Unit]

Oh I wish this were available on the shelf! I dont want to tie into a subscription- I just like to buy a mag now and then.

 

[Liz Bent]

I liked the majority of stories in F&SF, but I was often annoyed at the amount of space taken up by the columns (book reviews, science facts, and others I don't recall now). Sometimes it felt like the columns took up more space in the magazine than the actual fiction, and I stopped subscribing to it for that reason. You might like the columns better than I did, though.

 

[clovis-man]

Haven't subscribed in years. But it has always been a quality publication.

I do miss Ferdinand Feghoot, though.

 

[Pyan]

Gods, yes! I'd forgotten about FF and the Society for the Aesthetic Re-Arrangement of History...

 

[J-WO]

A great mag but I wish they'd take electronic submissions. Gripe over.

 

[dask]

Good, reliable and important mag. Subscribed in the seventies, even entered one of their contests and won an extra year's subscription by being a runner-up. Annual paperback collections from the fifties and sixties still pop up at book sales and thrift stores and are worth grabbing without thinking about it.

 

[JustPassingThrough]

It's one of my favorite magazines and I still look for it when I hit the bookstore- for new copies or old copies even (found some once with some Ellison in it and was quite a happy camper). I even bought the book that came out that was the celebration of 50 years of F&SF.

 

[VideoChrist]

F&SF is now available electronically for Kindle.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

That means I need a Kindle (Kindle for PC, which I have, does not work with the Kindle version of F&SF)

 

[johnnyjet]

I'm still a subscriber to F&SF. It was the magazine that first introduced me to science fiction & fantasy so many years ago. Quality varies, but over all it's an excellent magazine. Still trying to break into that market though.

 

[jojajihisc]

I liked the majority of stories in F&SF, but I was often annoyed at the amount of space taken up by the columns (book reviews, science facts, and others I don't recall now). Sometimes it felt like the columns took up more space in the magazine than the actual fiction, and I stopped subscribing to it for that reason. You might like the columns better than I did, though.

The columns take up relatively very little space in F&SF, for example, the most recent issue I bought devotes 38 pages on 7 topics to different columns and this is out of a 258 page magazine. You may be confusing this magazine with Analog which does try to cover more real science and research in its articles.

I also wanted to bump the thread up to see if anybody had anything new to say about the magazine. Any good stories?