What do you think?
Rate this book
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 24
Since its founding, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been acclaimed as one of the pinnacles of the field, the source of fantastic fiction of the highest literary quality. Now the magazine known to its readers as "F&SF" celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a spectacular anthology of the best recent work from the magazine.
Included are stories from major writers like Bruce Sterling, John Crowley, and Harlan Ellison. Also here are award-winners like Ursula K. Le Guin's Nebula-winning "Solitude," Maureen F. McHugh's Hugo-winning "The Lincoln Train," and Elizabeth Hand's Nebula- and World Fantasy Award-winning "Last Summer at Mars Hill."
The fiftieth anniversary collection for the most distinguished magazine of the science fiction and fantasy world.
Contents:
Introduction by Edward L. Ferman
Window by Bob Leman
The Fire When It Comes by Parke Godwin
Books: The Secret Language of Science Fiction by Algis Budrys
Wives by Lisa Tuttle
The Alien Mind by Philip K. Dick
Spidersong by Susan C. Petrey
Out There Where the Big Ships Go by Richard Cowper
Films and TV: Lost Rewards by Baird Searles
The Curse of the Mhondoro Nkabele by Eric Norden
The Autopsy by Michael Shea
The Sipple by Rachel Cosgrove Payes
The Wud by Mike DeSimone
Conkew by Pat Cadigan
The Fleffel by Bruce Berges
untitled by Mary C. Pangborn
untitled by Sebastian Robinson
A Day at the Fair by Neal Barrett, Jr.
The Most Illuminatingly Doleful and Instructively Affecting Demise of Flo, Late of Upper Blooton by Russell M. Griffin
The Word I Invented by Isaac Asimov
The Pusher by John Varley
The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch
Included are stories from major writers like Bruce Sterling, John Crowley, and Harlan Ellison. Also here are award-winners like Ursula K. Le Guin's Nebula-winning "Solitude," Maureen F. McHugh's Hugo-winning "The Lincoln Train," and Elizabeth Hand's Nebula- and World Fantasy Award-winning "Last Summer at Mars Hill."
The fiftieth anniversary collection for the most distinguished magazine of the science fiction and fantasy world.
Contents:
Introduction by Edward L. Ferman
Window by Bob Leman
The Fire When It Comes by Parke Godwin
Books: The Secret Language of Science Fiction by Algis Budrys
Wives by Lisa Tuttle
The Alien Mind by Philip K. Dick
Spidersong by Susan C. Petrey
Out There Where the Big Ships Go by Richard Cowper
Films and TV: Lost Rewards by Baird Searles
The Curse of the Mhondoro Nkabele by Eric Norden
The Autopsy by Michael Shea
The Sipple by Rachel Cosgrove Payes
The Wud by Mike DeSimone
Conkew by Pat Cadigan
The Fleffel by Bruce Berges
untitled by Mary C. Pangborn
untitled by Sebastian Robinson
A Day at the Fair by Neal Barrett, Jr.
The Most Illuminatingly Doleful and Instructively Affecting Demise of Flo, Late of Upper Blooton by Russell M. Griffin
The Word I Invented by Isaac Asimov
The Pusher by John Varley
The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch
- GenresAnthologiesShort Stories
311 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
3 people are currently reading
34 people want to read
About the author
Edward L. Ferman
635 books7 followersEdward Ferman (born 1937) was an American science fiction and fantasy fiction editor and magazine publisher.
Ferman is the son of Joseph W. Ferman, and took over as editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1964 when Avram Davidson, due to his residence in various Latin American locales with unreliable postal delivery, could no longer practically continue editing; on the masthead, Joseph Ferman was listed as editor and publisher for Edward Ferman's first two years. Edward Ferman would take on the role of publisher, as well, by 1970, as his father gradually retired. He remained as editor until 1991 when he hired his replacement, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He remained as publisher of the magazine until he sold it to Gordon Van Gelder in 2000. While Ferman was the editor, many other magazines in the field began to fold or were shortlived, and his magazine, along with Analog, was one of the few which maintained a regular schedule and sustained critical appreciation for its contents.
From 1969-1970, he was the editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction's sister publication Venture Science Fiction Magazine. Together, the Fermans had also edited and published the short-lived nostalgia and humor magazine P.S. and a similarly brief run of a magazine about mysticism and other proto-New Age matters, Inner Space.
Ferman received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor three years in a row, from 1981 through 1983. F&SF had previously won several other Hugos under his editorship, which had been famously conducted, at least in the last decade of his tenure, from a table in the Ferman family's Connecticut house. He edited or co-edited several volumes of stories from F&SF and co-edited Final Stage with Barry N. Malzberg. It is probable that he also ghost-edited No Limits for or with Joseph Ferman, an anthology drawn from the pages of the first run of Venture.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_L..."
Ferman is the son of Joseph W. Ferman, and took over as editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1964 when Avram Davidson, due to his residence in various Latin American locales with unreliable postal delivery, could no longer practically continue editing; on the masthead, Joseph Ferman was listed as editor and publisher for Edward Ferman's first two years. Edward Ferman would take on the role of publisher, as well, by 1970, as his father gradually retired. He remained as editor until 1991 when he hired his replacement, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He remained as publisher of the magazine until he sold it to Gordon Van Gelder in 2000. While Ferman was the editor, many other magazines in the field began to fold or were shortlived, and his magazine, along with Analog, was one of the few which maintained a regular schedule and sustained critical appreciation for its contents.
From 1969-1970, he was the editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction's sister publication Venture Science Fiction Magazine. Together, the Fermans had also edited and published the short-lived nostalgia and humor magazine P.S. and a similarly brief run of a magazine about mysticism and other proto-New Age matters, Inner Space.
Ferman received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor three years in a row, from 1981 through 1983. F&SF had previously won several other Hugos under his editorship, which had been famously conducted, at least in the last decade of his tenure, from a table in the Ferman family's Connecticut house. He edited or co-edited several volumes of stories from F&SF and co-edited Final Stage with Barry N. Malzberg. It is probable that he also ghost-edited No Limits for or with Joseph Ferman, an anthology drawn from the pages of the first run of Venture.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_L..."
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
June 19, 2024
Notable for containing 'Autopsy' by Michael Shea which was recently adapted for an episode of del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities.
Also an interesting essay by Isaac Asimov on his influence on thought regarding robotics.
Also an interesting essay by Isaac Asimov on his influence on thought regarding robotics.
March 12, 2019
I liked "A Day at the Fair". That was an interesting story and created world. I was surprised to see "Brave Little Toaster" in the collection. I seem to recall that was later made into a children's movie. Spidersong was perhaps the best written of the stories. Or maybe the creepy "The Autopsy" by Michael Shea. Oh yeah, and "The Curse of the Mhondoro Nkabele" by Eric Norden was funny.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews