Twenty Years of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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In its twenty years of publication, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been the single strongest influence for good writing in SF, presenting stories by just about every writer of note, encouraging experimentation, insisting rigorously on high quality. The result has been a stunning body of work, including many stories that have become classics. Ed Ferman and Bob Mills, the most recent in a line of distinguished editors of F&SF have selected twenty stories which appeared in the magazine during its first two decades—stories with a wide range of mood and technique, but all meeting a consistent standard of excellence.

The stars of SF are here—Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov , Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Bloch, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick—along with memorably individual stories by writers less famous.

Carefully avoiding the overanthologized story, the editors have made a fresh selection which will be a delight to all readers of imaginative fiction.

* We Can Remember It for You Wholesale • • novelette by Philip K. Dick
* 5,271,009 • • novelette by Alfred Bester
* The Silly Season • • shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
* 237 Talking Statues, Etc. • • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
* M-1 • • shortstory by Gahan Wilson
* Sweet Helen • • shortstory by Charles W. Runyon
* Feminine Intuition • [Susan Calvin ] • • novelette by Isaac Asimov
* Prime-Time Teaser • • shortstory by Bruce McAllister
* Becalmed in Hell • [Known Space] • • shortstory by Larry Niven
* Something Else • • shortstory by Robert J. Tilley
* A Touch of Strange • • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
* Free Dirt • • shortstory by Charles Beaumont
* That Hell-Bound Train • • shortstory by Robert Bloch
* Gratitude Guaranteed • • novelette by Reginald Bretnor and Kris Neville [as by Kris Neville and R. Bretnor ]
* The Holiday Man • • shortstory by Richard Matheson
* Private - Keep Out! • • shortstory by Philip MacDonald
* Gladys's Gregory • • shortstory by John Anthony West
* Yes, We Have No Ritchard • • shortstory by Bruce Jay Friedman
* A Final Sceptre, a Lasting Crown • • shortstory by Ray Bradbury [as by Ray Bradbury ]
* As Long as You're Here • • shortstory by Will Stanton
* F&SF and I • essay by Isaac Asimov