Editor Gordon Van Gelder has announced the contents of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction‘s September/October 2012 issue, which is scheduled to go on sale in August. The table of contents is:
Novelets:
“Close Encounters” by Andy Duncan
“The Sheriff” by Chet Arthur
“12:03 P.M.” by Richard A. Lupoff
“The Goddess” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“Arc” by Ken Liu
“Troll Blood” by Peter Dickinson
Short Stories:
“Father Juniper’s Journey to the North” by Grania Davis
“Give Up” by Richard Butner
“A Diary from Deimos” by Michael Alexander
“Where the Summer Dwells” by Lynda E. Rucker
“Theobroma Valentine” by Rand B. Lee
Poem:
“Contact” by Sophie M. White
Departments:
Books to Look for by Charles de Lint
Books by Chris Moriarty
Plumage from Pegasus: “Call Me Ishmael” by Paul Di Filippo
Coming Attractions
Films: “Beauty Fades, But Fairy Tales Never Die” by Kathi Maio
Curiosities by Chris DiVito
Cartoons by Mark Heath and Danny Shanahan.
The cover art is by Kent Bash, and illustrates “Close Encounters”.