The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 30-year Retrospective

Since the autumn of 1949, untold numbers of readers have eagerly devoured a feast for the imagination known as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. To celebrate that award winning publication's 30th anniversary, Edward L. Ferman has gathered the best works ever to appear in the magazine into an extraordinary anthology...an array of short stories and novelettes about such diverse subjects as: A little boy who spends much of his time listening to Terry and the Pirates, Captain Midnight and other favorite radio programs - 20 years after they’ve gone off the air. A mentally retarded man who is given an operation that transforms him into a genius-for a while. An elderly clockmaker who designs the ultimate weapon: a musical instrument that summons hordes of strange, mouselike creatures out of the past. And there’s much more! This 30 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE brings you 18 thought-provoking tales by some of the most famous names in the SF field - Sundance by Robert Silverberg; A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.; Not With a Bang by Damon Knight... as well as works by Isaac Asimov, James Tiptree, Jr., Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester and other greats. You’ll find cartoons by the inimitable Gahan Wilson and poetry with a wry-to-haunting SF slant....In short, you’ll enjoy this exciting commemorative treasury for many years to come. Fondly Fahrenheit / Alfred Bester And Now the News / Theodore Sturgeon Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot / Grendel Briarton Not with a Bang / Damon Knight Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes A Canticle for Leibowitz / Walter M. Miller, Jr. Love Letter from Mars / John Ciardi One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts / Shirley Jackson The Women Men Don’t See / James Tiptree, Jr. Bom of Man and Woman / Richard Matheson Jeffty Is Five / Harlan Ellison Ararat / Zenna Henderson Me / Hilbert Schenck, Jr. Sundance / Robert Silverberg Three Cartoons / Gahan Wilson The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out / R. Bretnor Dreaming Is a Private Thing / Isaac Asimov Poor Little Warrior! / Brian W. Aldiss Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden / Gerald Jonas We Can Remember It for You Wholesale / Philip K. Dick Selectra Six-Ten / Avram Davidson Dance Music for a Gone Planet / Sonya Dorman Problems of Creativeness / Thomas M. Disch The Quest for Saint Aquin / Anthony Boucher