Editor Gordon Van Gelder has announced the contents of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction‘s December 2009 issue, which is scheduled to go on sale on 1 November. The magazine is now on an every-other-month schedule. The table of contents is:
Novelets:
“Dragon’s Teeth” by Alex Irvine
“Hell of a Fix” by Matthew Hughes
“Inside Time” by Tim Sullivan
“I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said” by Richard Bowes
Short Stories:
“Bad Matter” by Alexandra Duncan
“Farewell Atlantis” by Terry Bisson
“Illusions of Tranquility” by Brendan DuBois
“The Blight Family Singers” by Kit Reed
“The Economy of Vacuum” by Sarah Thomas
“Iris” by Nancy Springer
“The Man Who Did Something About It” by Harvey Jacobs
Departments:
Editorial by Gordon Van Gelder
Books to Look For by Charles de Lint
Books by James Sallis
Films: “Post-Modern Hasidism… with Puppets!” by Kathi Maio
Coming Attractions
Index to Volumes 116 & 117
Curiosities by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
Cartoons by Arthur Masear, Bill Long, and S. Harris.
The cover art, for “Hell of a Fix”, is by Kent Bash.