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* The title was finally shortened to just Fantasy & Science Fiction with the October 1987 issue. | * The title was finally shortened to just Fantasy & Science Fiction with the October 1987 issue. | ||
==Publication record== | |||
As of April 2008, ''F&SF'' has not been doing a great job [[publishing women]]. ''F&SF''’s 2008 stats<ref name="ABW-2008">The Angry Black Woman, [http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=332 "Are We Talking About Gender and Magazines AGAIN? …Yes"], ''Feminist SF - The Blog!'', April 14, 2008.]</ref>: | |||
* January: 6 total, 2 by women, 33% | |||
* February: 7 total, 1.5 by women, 25% | |||
* March: 6 total, 1 by women, 17% | |||
* April: 6 total, 1 by women, 17% | |||
* May: 7 total, 2 by women, about 30% | |||
On average, about 23% women in a magazine that publishes both SF and Fantasy.<ref name="ABW-2008" /> | |||
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[[Category:Journals]] | [[Category:Journals]] | ||
[[Category:1949 publications]] | [[Category:1949 publications]] | ||
Revision as of 07:28, 14 April 2008
- For other uses of FSF, see FSF (disambiguation)
Fantasy and Science Fiction (previously, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; often referred to as "F&SF") is one of the longest running magazines for publication of SF. It is a digest-sized publication, currently published monthly.
Title history
- 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.
- The title was finally shortened to just Fantasy & Science Fiction with the October 1987 issue.
Publication record
As of April 2008, F&SF has not been doing a great job publishing women. F&SF’s 2008 stats[1]:
- January: 6 total, 2 by women, 33%
- February: 7 total, 1.5 by women, 25%
- March: 6 total, 1 by women, 17%
- April: 6 total, 1 by women, 17%
- May: 7 total, 2 by women, about 30%
On average, about 23% women in a magazine that publishes both SF and Fantasy.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Angry Black Woman, "Are We Talking About Gender and Magazines AGAIN? …Yes", Feminist SF - The Blog!, April 14, 2008.]