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Subject: Re: Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction--defunct?
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On Jul 14, 2025, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote
(in article <1052knd$3b9qp$1@dont-email.me>):

> On 7/13/25 9:23 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> > In article<1050aj0$2nd45$2@dont-email.me>,
> > Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I haven't gotten an issue since Summer 2024; is this defunct?
> >
> > Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact,
> > Asimov's Science Fiction, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and
> > The Magazine of Fantasy &  Science Fiction have been acquired by
> > Must Read Magazines. MRM's proposed contract is pretty dire:
> > authors must surrender their moral rights. So, it's not clear
> > the magazines will survive the new owners.
>
> But Analog and Asimov's seem to still be coming out regularly. I suppose
> they could be publishing backlog, but wouldn't all the magazines have
> the same proposed contracts?
>
> F&SF was always an outlier, even back when it was the "Big 6" (Analog,
> Amazing, Fantastic, Galaxy, If, and F&SF--and that tells you how old I
> am!), and it's outlasted four of them, so it has had a good run. I have
> to admit that when it went to the thicker double issues, it never felt
> like the same magazine again to me.

I used to have the very last issues of Galaxy and If (before If merged with 
Galaxy) and a lot of Analog and Asimov’s (including the first issue). I had 
some MS&SF and a little Amazing. For various reasons I dropped my subs to 
Analog and Asimov’s, but kept the old mags. I also had a lot of 
large-format comics (Creepy, Vampirella, the Spirit, Conan, etc.) and a _lot_ 
of Avengers and X-Men comics. All evaporated in a move 20 years ago. (Do you 
know how much 25 years of multiple lines of paper magazines weighs?)