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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1988
NOVELLA
The Time Of No Troubles - W. Warren Wagar
NOVELETS
Floating Castles - Ray Aldridge
SHORT STORIES
The Mole Field - Ian Watson
Dreams In Tandem (verse) - Nancy Etchemendy
The Bird Looking In - Robert Reed
What Dreams May Come - Brad Strickland
Batboy - Harry Turtledove
DEPARTMENTS
Books - Algis Budrys
Books To Look For - Orson Scott Card
Science: Into The Here - Isaac Asimov
Harlan Ellison's Watching - Harlan Ellison
The Time Of No Troubles - W. Warren Wagar
NOVELETS
Floating Castles - Ray Aldridge
SHORT STORIES
The Mole Field - Ian Watson
Dreams In Tandem (verse) - Nancy Etchemendy
The Bird Looking In - Robert Reed
What Dreams May Come - Brad Strickland
Batboy - Harry Turtledove
DEPARTMENTS
Books - Algis Budrys
Books To Look For - Orson Scott Card
Science: Into The Here - Isaac Asimov
Harlan Ellison's Watching - Harlan Ellison
162 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1988
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About the author
Edward L. Ferman
634 books7 followersEdward Ferman (born 1937) was an American science fiction and fantasy fiction editor and magazine publisher.
Ferman is the son of Joseph W. Ferman, and took over as editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1964 when Avram Davidson, due to his residence in various Latin American locales with unreliable postal delivery, could no longer practically continue editing; on the masthead, Joseph Ferman was listed as editor and publisher for Edward Ferman's first two years. Edward Ferman would take on the role of publisher, as well, by 1970, as his father gradually retired. He remained as editor until 1991 when he hired his replacement, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He remained as publisher of the magazine until he sold it to Gordon Van Gelder in 2000. While Ferman was the editor, many other magazines in the field began to fold or were shortlived, and his magazine, along with Analog, was one of the few which maintained a regular schedule and sustained critical appreciation for its contents.
From 1969-1970, he was the editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction's sister publication Venture Science Fiction Magazine. Together, the Fermans had also edited and published the short-lived nostalgia and humor magazine P.S. and a similarly brief run of a magazine about mysticism and other proto-New Age matters, Inner Space.
Ferman received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor three years in a row, from 1981 through 1983. F&SF had previously won several other Hugos under his editorship, which had been famously conducted, at least in the last decade of his tenure, from a table in the Ferman family's Connecticut house. He edited or co-edited several volumes of stories from F&SF and co-edited Final Stage with Barry N. Malzberg. It is probable that he also ghost-edited No Limits for or with Joseph Ferman, an anthology drawn from the pages of the first run of Venture.
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Ferman is the son of Joseph W. Ferman, and took over as editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1964 when Avram Davidson, due to his residence in various Latin American locales with unreliable postal delivery, could no longer practically continue editing; on the masthead, Joseph Ferman was listed as editor and publisher for Edward Ferman's first two years. Edward Ferman would take on the role of publisher, as well, by 1970, as his father gradually retired. He remained as editor until 1991 when he hired his replacement, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He remained as publisher of the magazine until he sold it to Gordon Van Gelder in 2000. While Ferman was the editor, many other magazines in the field began to fold or were shortlived, and his magazine, along with Analog, was one of the few which maintained a regular schedule and sustained critical appreciation for its contents.
From 1969-1970, he was the editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction's sister publication Venture Science Fiction Magazine. Together, the Fermans had also edited and published the short-lived nostalgia and humor magazine P.S. and a similarly brief run of a magazine about mysticism and other proto-New Age matters, Inner Space.
Ferman received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor three years in a row, from 1981 through 1983. F&SF had previously won several other Hugos under his editorship, which had been famously conducted, at least in the last decade of his tenure, from a table in the Ferman family's Connecticut house. He edited or co-edited several volumes of stories from F&SF and co-edited Final Stage with Barry N. Malzberg. It is probable that he also ghost-edited No Limits for or with Joseph Ferman, an anthology drawn from the pages of the first run of Venture.
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September 30, 2025
An entertaining issue leading off with a nice little horror piece from lan Watson. A horror novelist finds getting bogged in an old churchyard is deadly in "The Mole Field". Harry Turtledove has a tale of supernatural terror on a baseball trip where "The Batboy" might actually live up to his name. Robert Reed gives us the story of a global buyback scheme where the Neighbours, an alien race, offer humans alternate habitable worlds so that the aliens can have Earth for themselves in "The Bird Looking In". Brad Strickland gives us a man who is tormented by dreams of savage violence in "What dreams May Come" - but are they only dreams? Finally Warren Wagar depicts a world after an unusual catastrophe that sees humans divided into altruists (altos) and egoists (egos) and one man's struggle to find a lost love amid the wastelands in "The Time Of No Troubles."
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