The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (later Fantasy & Science Fiction and usually referred to as just F&SF;) is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc. has published the magazine since 2001. With the April/May 2009 issue, it changed from monthl...
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (later Fantasy & Science Fiction and usually referred to as just F&SF;) is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc. has published the magazine since 2001. With the April/May 2009 issue, it changed from monthly to bimonthly publication.
It began as The Magazine of Fantasy (Fall 1949), with Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas as editors. To encompass the full spectrum of speculative fiction, the title expanded into The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction with the second issue. Switching to an ampersand, it became The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction with the sixth issue (February 1951), returning to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction with issue 17 (October 1952). The ampersand reappeared in May 1979, and the title was finally...
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