The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Also known as
  • The Magazine of Fantasy,
  • F&SF,
  • The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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. Currently, the magazine is published monthly except for a combined October/November issue. Initially, The Magazine of Fantasy (Fall 1949), with Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas as editors, the title expanded to 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 shortened to just Fantasy & Science Fiction with the October 1987 issue. In the mid-1940s,... full article at wikipedia

  Publishing

First issue date
date
additional date info
  • 1949
  • Fall
Final issue date
Frequency or Issues per Year
frequency
issues per year
from
to
  • 11
  • 1991
  • Sep 1952
  • Dec 1990
  • Dec 1950
  • Aug 1951
  • 1949
  • 1950
ISSN (print)
  • 1095-8258
ISSN (electronic)
Publisher
publisher
from
to
  • Feb 2001
  • Mar 1958
  • Jan 2001
  • 1950
  • Feb 1958
  • 1949
  • 1949
Circulation
Place of publication
place of publication
from
to
  • Feb 2001
  • Feb 1971
  • Jan 2001
  • 1950
  • Jan 1971
  • 1949
  • 1949
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