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

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?

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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.

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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?
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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?)