Following on from last episode, where we reviewed an old issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , this time we come bang up to date (more or less) and review the Nov/Dec 2022 issue of the very same magazine. How does the current issue look? Will we be impressed or depressed? Has F&SF changed in sixty years? Read along with us! We always welcome your comments, so please let us know what you think of the magazine. You can buy F&SF in print and in ebook form. The official website is at http://www.fandsf.com/ Find out about the history of F&SF - one of the longest running current SF magazines - here . Also featured in this episode of the pod, we have a quiz taken from Radio Times - see the full version of the quiz (which Phil cut down for the pod) here . Among the items mentioned in our regular past/present/future section: Ray Bradbury's short story "Rocket Summer", featured on Phil's other podcast Back to the Moon by Homer Hickam Glass
It's December, and so according to the tradition we invented this time last year, we go back into the past and review an old science fiction magazine - to see how the field has changed over time, and to see if those old stories still hold up. This year, we tackle the December 1962 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. If you'd like to skim the pages with us, you can find the entire issue online here . We also have a science fiction cat quiz, believe it or not. And our usual round-up of past/present/future items which have caught our attention recently, which include the following: The Girl With All The Gifts (2016 film) Habitats , a (successful) Kickstarter for an "optimistic" SF magazine Andor , the Star Wars TV series Phil's February 2023 talk on Fahrenheit 451 , part of Wolverhampton's Literature Festival Beginning Operations , the omnibus volume collecting James White's "Sector General" series If you join us for the 1962 mag