Re: Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction--defunct?

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.
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