Editor Gordon Van Gelder has announced the contents of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction‘s August/September 2009 issue, which is scheduled to go on sale on 7 July. The table of contents is:
Novelets:
“The Art of the Dragon” by Sean McMullen
“A Token of a Better Age” by Melinda M. Snodgrass
“The Bones of Giants” by Yoon Ha Lee
“The Others” by Lawrence C. Connolly
“Three Leaves of Aloe” by Rand B. Lee
“The Private Eye” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“Esoteric City” by Bruce Sterling
Short Stories:
“You are Such a One” by Nancy Springer
“Hunchster” by Matthew Hughes
“Icarus Saved from the Skies” by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
Poem:
“Obsolete Theories” by Sophie M. White
Classic Reprints:
“The Goddamned Tooth Fairy” by Tina Kuzminski
“Snowfall” by Jessie Thompson
Departments:
Editorial by Gordon Van Gelder
Books to Look For by Charles de Lint
Books by Elizabeth Hand
Films: “Swatchmen” by Lucius Shepard
Coming Attractions
Curiosities by Patricia A. Martinelli
Cartoons by Arthur Masear, J.P. Rini, John Jonik, Bill Long, S. Harris, Danny Shanahan, and Tom Cheney.
The cover art is by Cory and Catska Ench.
Why is F&SF running reprints? With so few venues for authors I should think that the mag would run a couple of new stories rather than digging through the archives. It would be a fun idea if the mag had a lettercol and a place where readers could nominate stories for reprinting.
Just a thought.