The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Our story this week is A Struggle Between Rivals Ends Surprisingly by Oliver Buckram.

This is a flashback of a reprint from the magazine of fantasy and science fiction published by us in August 2014.

Oliver Buckram, Ph.D., writes fantasy and science fiction.

He lives in the Boston area where, under an assumed name, he teaches social science to undergraduates.

His fiction has appeared in the magazine of fantasy and science fiction, Interzone, and Shimmer, among other places.

He urges you to keep watching the skies.

Our narrator, Laura Hobbs, works in InfoSec by day and is a random crafter by night.

And they're like, hey, yeah, this is so-and-so from Shuler Books, which is my local indie bookstore.

They're like, yeah, we just got the latest fantasy and science fiction magazine in.

Which...

i can't remember the last time because i used to have them yeah hold hold a copy for that right they they used to just keep it on the shelf and then they stopped stocking it and i was like okay well whenever a new one comes out bring it you know buy it and and hold it for me yeah um and so it's been a year a year and a half like i genuinely don't know when the last time they actually shipped a physical copy so i knew i knew you would appreciate like the yeah what

they shipped they actually printed

and shipped a copy of Final Fantasy and Science Fiction in the year of our lord 2026 that's

a we should do a bonus episode on like dude science fiction and

fantasy oh my lord yeah

Today, we're introducing another author to the Lost Sci-Fi Podcast for the very first time, Betsy Curtis.

Born Elizabeth Curtis in September 1917 in Toledo, Ohio, her science fiction writing career began in 1950 when her first published story, Divine Right, appeared in the summer issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

What's interesting about Betsy Curtis is that she wasn't a particularly prolific science fiction author.

She's credited with about 16 published science fiction short stories between 1950 and 1973, and she never published a full-length novel, but she certainly made an impression.

This led to him getting hired to be the magazine's art editor.

His work soon caught the attention of a young agent named Forrest J. Ackerman, who helped him get his work in other magazines such as Other Worlds and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

The movie industry called when producer/director Roger Corman needed an alien being to save one of his pictures, The Beast With a Million Eyes, which dealt with an alien that could control animals and other creatures on Earth, quote, "seeing through them." In other words, they didn't have to pay to have a monster in it.

Unfortunately for them, the exhibitors weren't too pleased to buy a picture that had a title and a poster art, but had no monster.

[upbeat music] Ferguson Cayetano is a Filipino-American speculative fiction writer based in Brooklyn.

His other publication credits include The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Apex Magazine.

You can often find him on JSTOR reading about various mythologies, even if it's the weekend.

Elsewhere, he is at www.ferdwrites.com or on Twitter and Blue Sky at FerdWrites, where he follows back, so don't be shy Trey Nakamura is a Las Vegas-based voice actor and narrator.

King originally wrote it as a series of five separate short stories.

They were published sporadically in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction between 1978 and 1981.

So it was serialized first.

Right.

Pull up a chair, grab a notepad and let's get into it.

An award-winning Afro-futurist, editor and librarian, Maurice Broaddus has had over 100 short stories published in such places as Lightspeed Magazine, Black Panther, Tales from Wakanda, Out There Screaming, edited by Jordan Peele, The End of the World as We Know It, New Tales of Stephen King's To Stand, Asimov's Weird Tales, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Apex Magazine, with over a dozen novels in print.

Dr. Cheshire Burke is an assistant professor of English and US literatures and the director of Africana Studies at Stetson University.

Having written and published over 100 stories and articles within the genres of horror, sci-fi, comics, and Afrofuturism, her academic research focuses primarily on the intersections of race, gender, and genre.

So I thought, I'll give it a shot.

And then by a certain number of flukes, I found myself getting offers from publishers to write fantasy and science fiction.

And so I did that and then I got more offers and I kept getting shortlisted for awards and so on.

I was again making my bones, but Essentially, I became a crime writer and was trapped in a science fiction or fantasy author's career.

And Henchman is actually a prequel to another one called Valdemar, which was named after the lead character.

And Valdemar was...

Eight or nine stories that ran in the magazine of fantasy and science fiction that I wrote actually as an episodic novel.

Because I found I could write them as stories and sell them, and then I put them together and self-publish them.

Yeah,

see, those are the days, though, right? Like, those science fiction anthologies and journals and magazines that used to be out there, like Fantasy and Science Fiction and Analog and Astounding, Omni, Omni King Later, like in the 70s, I think, in the 80s.

Yeah, yeah.

But Asimov had a magazine, right?