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 |
| Publication | 1949— |
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