Editor Gordon Van Gelder has announced the contents of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction‘s November/December 2012 issue, which is scheduled to go on sale in October. The table of contents is:

Novella:
“Katabasis” by Robert Reed

Novelets:
“High Stakes” by Naomi Kritzer
“The Problem of the Elusive Cracksman” by Ron Goulart
“Heaventide” by KJ Kabza

Short Stories:
“Claim Blame” by Alan Dean Foster
“Application” by Lewis Shiner
“Breathe” by Steven Popkes
“The Ladies in Waiting” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“If the Stars Reverse Their Courses, If the Rivers Run Back from the Sea” by Alter S. Reiss
“Waiting for a Me Like You” by Chris Willrich

Departments:
Editorial by Gordon Van Gelder
Books to Look for by Charles de Lint
Books by Elizabeth Hand
Films: “Apocalypse, Mon Amour” by Kathi Maio
Coming Attractions
Competition #84
Index to Volume 122 & 123
Curiosities by David Langford

Cartoons by Arthur Masear, Tom Cheney, Bill Long, Danny Shanahan, and J.P. Rini.

The cover art, by Cory and Catska Ench, illustrates “Katabasis”.