The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

F&SF was founded in 1949 by Mercury Publications, through its subsidiary Fantasy House. It was originally titled Magazine of Fantasy. Since 2001, it’s been published by Spilogale, Inc. F&SF was founded to cover the full range of sf, including fantasy, and to do so at a higher literary level than was common at the time. It was "Spotlighted Publisher" at Norwescon XXX.

Notable features: 399 science columns by Isaac Asimov, the Feghoot, many Gahan Wilson cartoons (and many cartons by others, also) a fascinating series of F&SF Competitions, a dozen single-author special issues, and the "Curiosities" column of, well, curiosities.

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction reprint anthology series is a long-standing, irregular series which reprints the best.

When Charles Coleman Finlay was appointed as Editor, beginning with the March/April 2015 issue, Gordon Van Gelder continued as Publisher.

Years	Editors	Publication rate
Fall 1949 -- August 1954	Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas	Quarterly, then bi-monthly, then monthly
September 1954 -- August 1958	Anthony Boucher	Monthly
1958	C. M. Kornbluth	Monthly
1958	William Tenn	Monthly
September 1958 -- March 1962	Robert P. Mills	Monthly
April 1962 -- November 1964	Avram Davidson	Monthly
December 1964 -- December 1965	Joseph W. Ferman and Edward L. Ferman	Monthly
January 1966 -- June 1991	Edward L. Ferman	Monthly
July 1991 -- May 1997	Kristine Kathryn Rusch	Monthly
June 1997 -- January 2015	Gordon Van Gelder	Monthly, then bi-monthly
February 2015 -- present	Charles Coleman Finlay	Bi-monthly

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