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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January/February 2015 (vol128 no 1&2)

Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2015

Penned By Gordon Van Gelder
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January/February 2015 (vol128 no 1&2)

Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2015

Penned By Gordon Van Gelder
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Editor's Note:
6 • Prisoner of Pandarius • novelette by Matthew Hughes37 • Books to Look For (F&SF, January - February 2015) • [Books to Look For] • essay by Charles de Lint48 • Books (F&SF, January - February 2015) • [Books (F&SF)] • essay by James Sallis56 • Lightning Jack's Last Ride • novelette by Dale Bailey79 • Telling Stories to the Sky • short story by Eleanor Arnason92 • The Stealer of Marketshare • [Plumage from Pegasus] • short fiction by Paul Di Filippo97 • Jubilee: A Seastead Story • [Seastead] • novelette by Naomi Kritzer118 • Out of the Jar • short story by Eric Schwitzgebel129 • History's Best Places to Kiss • short story by Nik Houser150 • Films: Female Trouble • essay by David J. Skal155 • Coming Attractions (F&SF, January - February 2015) • essay by uncredited156 • The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner • short story by Alan Baxter172 • The Man from X • short story by Gregor Hartmann179 • Portrait of a Witch • novelette by Albert E. Cowdrey199 • Robot Agonistes • poem by Alan Ira Gordon201 • Falling into the Unknowable • [Science (F&SF)] • essay by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty210 • An Undiscovered Country • poem by Robert Frazier211 • The Gazelle Who Begged for Her Life • short story by Francis Marion Soty223 • Farewell Blues • novelette by Bud Webster258 • Curiosities: The Devil and the Doctor, David H. Keller (1940) • [Curiosities] • essay by Stephen Haffner

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