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  • Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction--defunct?

    From Evelyn C. Leeper@evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.fandom on Sun Jul 13 08:59:12 2025
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    I haven't gotten an issue since Summer 2024; is this defunct?
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  • From jdnicoll@jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) to rec.arts.sf.fandom on Sun Jul 13 13:23:05 2025
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    In article <1050aj0$2nd45$2@dont-email.me>,
    Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
    I haven't gotten an issue since Summer 2024; is this defunct?

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact,
    Asimov's Science Fiction, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and
    The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction have been acquired by
    Must Read Magazines. MRM's proposed contract is pretty dire:
    authors must surrender their moral rights. So, it's not clear
    the magazines will survive the new owners.
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  • From Gary McGath@garym@mcgath.com to rec.arts.sf.fandom on Sun Jul 13 21:36:38 2025
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    On 7/13/25 8:59 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
    I haven't gotten an issue since Summer 2024; is this defunct?


    According to a comment on Reddit, dated "3 months ago" (I hate relative timestamps):

    F&SF had two issues out in 2024 and none so far in 2025 to my knowledge.
    In 2023, their issues became delayed due to a printing issue and that
    issue compounded to the point where they couldn't make deadlines. That's
    why they closed the submission system.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1jqlgdh/is_the_magazine_of_fantasy_and_science_fiction/
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  • From Evelyn C. Leeper@evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.fandom on Mon Jul 14 06:04:29 2025
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    On 7/13/25 9:23 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    In article <1050aj0$2nd45$2@dont-email.me>,
    Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
    I haven't gotten an issue since Summer 2024; is this defunct?

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov's Science Fiction, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and
    The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction have been acquired by
    Must Read Magazines. MRM's proposed contract is pretty dire:
    authors must surrender their moral rights. So, it's not clear
    the magazines will survive the new owners.

    But Analog and Asimov's seem to still be coming out regularly. I suppose
    they could be publishing backlog, but wouldn't all the magazines have
    the same proposed contracts?

    F&SF was always an outlier, even back when it was the "Big 6" (Analog, Amazing, Fantastic, Galaxy, If, and F&SF--and that tells you how old I
    am!), and it's outlasted four of them, so it has had a good run. I have
    to admit that when it went to the thicker double issues, it never felt
    like the same magazine again to me.
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    Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn
    Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking
    to those who do not wish to hear it. --Samuel Butler
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