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Here is the table of contents for the September/October 2012 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine:

NOVELETS

• “Close Encounter” by Andy Duncan
• “The Sheriff” by Chet Arthur
• “12:03 P.M.” by Richard A. Lupoff
• “The Goddess” by Albert E. Cowdrey
• “Arc” by Ken Liu
• “Troll Blood” by Peter Dickinson

SHORT STORIES

• “Give Up” by Richard Butner
• “A Diary from Deimos” by Michael Alexander
• “Where the Summer Dwells” by Lynda E. Rucker
• “Theobroma Valentine” by Rand B. Lee

POEMS

• “Contact” by Sophie M. White

DEPARTMENTS

• Books to Look For by Charles de Lint
• Books by Chris Moriarty
• Plumage From Pegasus: Call Me Ishmael by Paul Di Filippo
• Coming Attractions
• Film: “Beauty Fades, But Fairy Tales Never Die” by Kathi Maio
• Curiosities by Chris De Vito

CARTOONS

• Mark Heath, Danny Shanahan

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Here is the table of contents for the July/August 2012 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine:

NOVELLAS

• “The Fullness Of Time” by Kate Wilhelm

NOVELETS

• “Wearaway and Flambeau” by Matthew Hughes
• “The Afflicted” by Matthew Johnson
• “Jack Shade in the Forest of Souls by Rachel Pollack

SHORT STORIES

• “Hartmut’s World” by Albert E. Cowdrey
• “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times” by Eleanor Arnason
• “A Natural History of Autumn” by Jeffrey Ford
• “Wizard” by Michaele Jordan
• “Real Faces” by Ken Liu

FEATURES

• Books to Look For by Charles de Lint
• Musing on Books by Michelle West
• Science: Quicksand and Ketchup by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
• Films: Martian Processed Cheese by Lucius Shepard
• Coming Attractions
• Curiosities by Bud Webster

[via Black Gate]

What a curious species, the science fiction magazine. If you consider that first issue of Amazing Stories, published in April 1926, as the birth of the modern science fiction magazine, then the science fiction magazine has survived in one form or another for nearly 86 years. This despite constant proclamations that science fiction is dying. Why has the science fiction magazine survived as long as it has? 

This is not to say a magazine cannot be killed. We have seen countless magazines die, some after only a single issue. But they are inevitably replaced by another magazine, one that is perhaps more durable than its predecessor, one that lasts somewhat longer. And when that one dies, still another comes along to take its place. There is an almost evolutionary battle taking place that has made the science fiction magazine, despite its seeming precariousness, a fit venue for the literature. One might die, but it will be replaced, and never has the species died out entirely.

I think that there are several important reasons for this.

Here is the table of contents for the January/February 2012 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine:

NOVELETTES

• “Small Towns” by Felicity Shoulders
• “The Secret of the City of Gold” by Ron Goulart
• “Umbrella Men” by John G. McDaid
• “Alien Land” by K.D. Wentworth
• “Mindbender” by Albert E. Cowdrey
• “The Color Least Used by Nature” by Ted Kosmatka

SHORT STORIES

• “The Comfort of Strangers” by Alexander Jablokov
• “Maxwell’s Demon” by Ken Liu
• “Scrap Dragon” by Naomi Kritzer
• “In the Trenches” by Michael Alexander
• “Canto MCML” by Lewis Shiner

DEPARTMENTS

• Books to Look For by Charles de Lint
• Books by Elizabeth Hand
• Coming Attractions
• Plumage From Pegasus: Judge, Jury, and Lexecutioner by Paul Di Filippo
• Film: “It’s a Small (Sick) World” by Kathi Maio
• Science: Amazing Science Stories by Pat Murphy & Paul Doherty
• Curiosities by Don Webb

CARTOONS

• Frank Cotham, Tom Swick, Danny Shanahan, Arthur Masear, Tom Cheney

COVER

• Mark Evans for “Umbrella Men”

Here is the table of contents for the May/June 2010 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, which goes on sale on May 4th, 2010:

Novelettes:

• “Why that Crazy Old Lady Goes up the Mountain” by Michael Libling
• “Thief of Shadows” by Fred Chappell
• “Dr. Death vs. the Vampire” by Aaron Schutz
• “The Crocodiles” by Steven Popkes

Short Stories:

• “A History of Cadmium” by Elizabeth Bourne
• “The Real Martian Chronicles” by John Sladek
• “Remotest Mansions of the Blood” by Alex Irvine
• “Seven Sins for Seven Dwarves” by Hilary Goldstein
• “Silence” by Dale Bailey
• “Forever” by Rachel Pollack
• “The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe” by Robert Onopa
• “The Gypsy’s Boy” by Lokiko Hall

Departments:

• Books to Look for by Charles de Lint
• Musing on Books by Michelle West
• Coming Attractions
• Films: “Blockbuster as Religious Experience” by Kathi Maio
• Competition #79
• Curiosities by Bud Webster

[via SFScope]