Wall-E and Mel Hunter
If you haven’t seen Wall-E yet, you should drop whatever you’re doing and go see it right away because it’s freaking awesome. Tor art director Irene Gallo agrees, and points out some interesting parallels between the robot design in the movie and the iconic covers Mel Hunter did for F&SF.
StarShipSofa on F&SF
The podcast StarShipSofa has a new episode up focused on F&SF:
Today the StarShipSofa blasts off into the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Join Tony as he guides the Sofa across all the years of the magazines long life, from it’s initial concept with editors Anthony Boucher and J Francis McComas, to present editor and publisher Gordon Van Gelder. Get ready… Blast Off!
Go have a listen. [MP3 link]
Unofficial History of F&SF
Over at the new blog Make-Believe for Grown-Ups, the anonymous blogger ("superfluousman"), an aspiring writer with much love for F&SF, wrote up a nice historical overview of the magazine.
He (or she) says a number of very kind things about F&SF in the process, such as:
- "The fact that so many stories from F&SF over the years are known well beyond the usual sf/fantasy-outside world barrier attests to the quality of the fiction published by F&SF. In my mind, it remains the premiere magazine for sf/fantasy."
- "F&SF has been the most reliable source for sweet fiction of the last six decades, and there’s every indication that will continue for the foreseeable future."
Go have a look at the whole piece, it’s a nice overview.
A Visual History of F&SF
Check out this cover index of F&SF, which includes every single issue dating back to issue #1 (in 1949), as well as the full run of British and Australian reprint editions.
If you’re interested in the history of the magazine, but are not particularly visually inclined, poke around in the F&SF Bibliography (1949–1999), or visit the magazine’s Wikipedia entry.
