| Issue Date |
Theme |
| Type |
Stories |
| 1992 APR |
stories that explore perception and memory |
| unintentional |
#6502 - Ray Vukcevich: "Mom's Little Friends"; #6505 - Pat Cadigan: "True Faces"; #6506 - Pat Murphy: "Going Through Changes"; #6507 - Paul J. McAuley: "Prison Dreams" |
| 1992 JUN |
stories with "odd and varied look(s) at mysticism in everyday life" |
| unintentional |
#6534 - Koja: "The Company of Storms"; #6538 - Tiedemann: "Shattered Template"; #6540 - Kale: "Miracle in a Small Village"; #6541 - Reed: "Birth Day"; #6543 - Winter: "Infinity Syrup"; #6544 - Tilton: "The Twelve Swans"; #6547 - Carroll: "Uh-Oh City" |
| 1992 AUG |
stories set in exotic locales |
| unintentional |
#6570 - Stephen Kraus: "In the Land of Grass"; #6576 - Vance Aandahl: "The First Invention"; #6581 - Ray Aldridge: "Winedark"; #6583 - Marc Laidlaw: "The Vulture Maiden" |
| 1992 OCT/NOV (#497-498) |
43rd Anniversary Issue |
| intentional |
all stories, #6604-6623 |
| 1992 DEC |
two stories that were inspired by Mary Shelley's classic novel, Frankenstein |
| unintentional |
#6629 - Brian W. Aldiss: "Common Clay"; #6634 - Madeleine E. Robins: "Willie" |
| 1993 JAN |
ghost stories for the holidays |
| unintentional |
#6650 - Nina Kiriki Hoffman: "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentle Ghosts"; #6651 - Marina Fitch: "The Ghosts on Christmas Eaves" |
| 1993 OCT/NOV (#509-510) |
44th Anniversary Issue |
| intentional |
all stories, #6780-6796 |
| 1994 MAR |
a look at deities & myth |
| unintentional |
#6850 - James Morrow: "Director's Cut"; #6851 - Esther M. Friesner: "Two Lovers, Two Gods, and a Fable" |
| 1994 JUL |
baseball, softball, Little League related stories |
| unintentional |
#6911 - Esther M. Friesner: "Jesus at the Bat"; #6913 - Robert Grossbach: "A Feel for the Game" |
| 1994 OCT/NOV (#521-522) |
45th Anniversary Issue |
| intentional |
all stories, #6960-6981 |
| 1995 JAN |
Christmas holiday stories |
| unintentional |
#7005 - Leslie What: "Compatibility Clause"; #7015 - David Bischoff: "Santa Ritual Abuse"; #7017 - Nina Kiriki Hoffman: "Home for Christmas" |
| 1995 JUL |
baseball stories |
| unintentional |
#7109 - Robert J. Levy: "New Horizons in Stickball"; #7111 - Dale Bailey: "The Resurrection Man's Legacy" |
| 1995 AUG |
weather stories |
| unintentional |
#7121 - Robert Reed: "Our Prayers Are With You"; #7123 - Raymond Steiber: "Dry August" |
| 1995 OCT/NOV (#533-534) |
46th Anniversary Issue |
| intentional |
all stories, #7149-7172 |
| 1996 MAR |
stories in this issue by an F&SF columnist |
| unintentional |
#7227 - Bruce Sterling: "The Littlest Jackal"; #7236 - Harlan Ellison: "Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral"; #7239 - Gregory Benford & David Brin: "Paris Conquers All" |
| 1996 MAR |
3 stories in this issue that will be pub. in Kevin J. Anderson(ed): War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches(1996), an anth. to commemorate H.G. Wells' short novel War of the Worlds(1898) |
| intentional |
#7234 - Mike Resnick: "The Roosevelt Dispatches"; #7239 - Gregory Benford & David Brin: "Paris Conquers All"; #7240 - Dave Wolverton: "After a Lean Winter" |
| 1996 APR |
an editorial introducing the story, "The Refuge," by Alan Brennert, which was written at the same time as a teleplay for Showtime's Outer Limits series, & will be aired in May 1996; readers asked to compare the story in F&SF with the story on Showtime |
| intentional |
#7241 - Kristine Kathryn Rusch: "Editorial"; #7253 - Alan Brennert: "The Refuge" |
| 1996 JUN |
New Writer Issue; 7 stories by new authors Michael A. Martin, Amy Sterling Casil, Michael Libling, Arinn Dembo, Matthew Wells, Jacqueline Hooper, & Gordon Gross(collab. ps. for husband/wife Eve Gordon & Harold Gross) |
| intentional |
#7278 - Martin: "Spelunking at the Cavern"; #7284 - Casil: "Jonny Punkinhead"; #7285 - Libling: "Sitters"; #7287 - Dembo: "Sisterhood of the Skin"; #7289 - Wells:"The Auschwitz Circus"; #7290 - Hooper: "Acheter"; #7291 - Gross: "Communion" |
| 1996 OCT/NOV |
47th Anniversay Issue |
| intentional |
all stories, #7349-7369 |
| 1997 APR |
3 stories inspired by this issue's cover art by Barclay Shaw; the authors agreed amongst themselves to write in 3 genres; includes an editorial by Rusch, in which she introduces this issue |
| intentional |
#7433 - Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Editorial; #7437 - Mike Resnick: "The Gelfite Fish Girl"(fantasy); #7444 - Esther M. Friesner: "King of the Cyber Trifles"(sf); #7446 - Nina Kiriki Hoffman: "Manna"(horror) |
| 1997 OCT/NOV |
48th Anniversary Issue |
| intentional |
all stories, #7537-7559 |
| 1998 JUL |
F&SF Goes to the Movies Special Issue |
| intentional |
all stories, #7664-7682 |
| 1998 OCT/NOV |
49th Anniversary Issue |
| intentional |
all stories, #7719-7738 |
| 1999 OCT/NOV |
50th Anniversary Issue |
| intentional |
all stories, #7897-7928 |
