Editor Gordon Van Gelder has announced the contents of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction‘s January 2012 issue, which is scheduled to go on sale on 3 January 2012. The table of contents is:
Novelets:
“Small Towns” by Felicity Shoulders
“The Secret of the City of Gold” by Ron Goulart
“Umbrella Men” by John G. McDaid
“Alien Land” by K.D. Wentworth
“Mindbender” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“The Color Least Used by Nature” by Ted Kosmatka
Short Stories:
“The Comfort of Strangers” by Alexander Jablokov
“Maxwell’s Demon” by Ken Liu
“Scrap Dragon” by Naomi Kritzer
“In the Trenches” by Michael Alexander
“Canto MCML” by Lewis Shiner
Departments:
Books to Look for by Charles de Lint
Books by Elizabeth Hand
Coming Attractions
Plumage from Pegasus: “Judge, Jury, and Lexecutioner” by Paul Di Filippo
Films: “It’s a Small (Sick) World” by Kathi Maio
Science: “Amazing Science Stories” by Paul Doherty and Pat Murphy
Curiosities by Don Webb
Cartoons by Frank Cotham, Tom Swick, Danny Shanahan, Arthur Masear, and Tom Cheney.
The cover art, by Mark Evans, illustrates “Umbrella Men.”