Fantasy & Science Fiction

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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. 1.0 1.1 The Angry Black Woman, "Are We Talking About Gender and Magazines AGAIN? …Yes", Feminist SF - The Blog!, April 14, 2008.]