A Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (often given as just Fantasy and Science Fiction or F&SF) is a digest size American fantasy fiction and science fiction magazine. It was number 1 published around 1949 as The Magazine of Fantasy by using Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas as its editors, adding and Science Fiction from its second issue on. It was ab initio quarterly, so bi-every month; monthly for decades, it at present publishes Xi issues by the season (including a long "anniversary double issue" each October). As of 2005 it continues to publish literary science fiction, fantasy and horror stories.

Editors use included Robert P. Mills, Avram Davidson, Edward L. Ferman (initially ghost-editing for his father Joseph W. Ferman), Kristine Kathryn Rusch and current editor Gordon Van Gelder. Completely of its editors keep close at hand maintained the high literary standard.

There stand been many only-creator specials across a years. Featured authors own involved Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, James Blish, Theodore Sturgeon (the number 1), Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Kate Wilhelm, and Barry N. Malzberg.

Isaac Asimov likewise wrote the science column for the magazine that run 399 every month issues forgoing the break. Among many more longstanding editorialist use at times been Anthony Boucher, Alfred Bester, Damon Knight, Avram Davidson, Judith Merril, James Blish, Joanna Russ, Algis Budrys, John Clute, Orson Scott Card, Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Hand, Michelle West and others on books, Charles Beaumont, Baird Searles, Harlan Ellison, Kathi Maio, and Lucius Shepard on film & related media (and, briefly, William Morrison on live theater), &, along using and since Asimov's pop-science essay series, Theodore L. Thomas, Gregory Benford, and Pat Murphy have contributed science columns. Robert Bloch wrote a notable series of essays in fandom in the 1950s; other recently, Charles Platt has published some interviews & essays on the todays aspects of the big culture, & various writers keep close at hand highlighted literary oddities in the back-report "Curiosities" column. Gahan Wilson contributed a cartoon to each issue for other than 15 years; late, S. Harris and others have been frequent contributors; humorous "Competitions" have also been popular; some of the results were collected as Oi, Robot by Ferman.

The total of Better from either Fantasy & Science Fiction Anthologies keep close at hand been published, initially in the about annual basis on the other hand further irregularly; additional recently, the total have been theme anthologies, edited by Van Gelder, though Ferman co-edited the Right Horror Stories from either Fantasy & Science Fiction when you took his tenure when editor.

Notable works that number one appeared in the magazine include: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut "One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts" by Shirley Jackson "Born of Man and Woman" by Richard Matheson "Jeffty is Five" & "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison; Ellison was also film editorialist & contributed several further of his better stories to the magazine. The Dark Tower by Stephen King; a short stories that comprise the number 1 volume, beginning using "The Gunslinger" (October, 1978) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes; the novelet version; late altered for the stage & for the films Charly, the number 1 film by owning Cliff Robertson A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.; the novelets that were incorporated into the novel. In Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch, the first fantasy or sf magazine serial to be nominated for the American Book Award; also, Disch's The Brave Little Toaster, which became a Disney animated film

Previous Editors
Anthony Boucher, 1949-August 1958 J. Francis McComas, 1949-August 1954 Robert P. Mills, September 1958-March 1962 Avram Davidson, April 1962-November 1964 Joseph W. Ferman, December 1964-December 1965 (essentially supervising his son, Edward Ferman, who was the actual editor) Edward L. Ferman, January 1966-June 1991 Kristine Kathryn Rusch, July 1991-May 1997

Current Staff

Gordon Van Gelder, Editor, June 1997-present, Publisher; 2001-present Barbara J. Norton, Assistant Publisher, 2001-present Keith Kahla, Assistant Publisher, 2001-present Robin O'Connor, Assistant Editor, 1990-present John Joseph Adams, Assistant Editor, 2001-present Harlan Ellison, Film Editor, 1990-present Carol Pinchefsky, Contests Editor, 2004-present John M. Cappello, Newsstand Circulation, 2004-present