Twenty Years of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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 (who has also contributed a witty, affectionate introduction), 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 • (1966) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
5,271,009 • (1954) • novelette by Alfred Bester
The Silly Season • (1950) • shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
237 Talking Statues, Etc. • (1963) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
M-1 • (1970) • shortstory by Gahan Wilson
Sweet Helen • (1969) • shortstory by Charles W. Runyon
Feminine Intuition • [Susan Calvin (Robot)] • (1969) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
Prime-Time Teaser • (1968) • shortstory by Bruce McAllister
Becalmed in Hell • [Known Space] • (1965) • shortstory by Larry Niven
Something Else • (1965) • shortstory by Robert J. Tilley
A Touch of Strange • (1958) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
Free Dirt • (1955) • shortstory by Charles Beaumont
That Hell-Bound Train • (1958) • shortstory by Robert Bloch
Gratitude Guaranteed • (1953) • novelette by Reginald Bretnor and Kris Neville [as by Kris Neville and R. Bretnor ]
The Holiday Man • (1957) • shortstory by Richard Matheson
Private - Keep Out! • (1949) • shortstory by Philip MacDonald
Gladys's Gregory • (1963) • shortstory by John Anthony West
Yes, We Have No Ritchard • (1960) • shortstory by Bruce Jay Friedman
A Final Sceptre, a Lasting Crown • (1969) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury (aka Henry the Ninth) [as by Ray Bradbury ]
As Long as You're Here • (1963) • shortstory by Will Stanton
* F&SF and I • essay by Isaac Asimov