AWESOME.

This year, in an attempt to start getting back in touch with my writery longings, I signed up to Locus and Fantasy&ScienceFiction. The former is a F&SF publishing industry rag, that keeps you up to date with all the gossip, reviews books, magazines and short stories, and has interviews and opinion pieces. It's great. The latter is one of the short-story magazines that is reviewed in Locus.

I got my first issues easily enough, then we moved house. The Locuses kept coming, though after a delay of a couple of months (I don't know if the Parents-in-not-law forgot to bring them over, or if there was a delay in the postage somewhere). Fantasy&ScienceFiction just dropped off the face of the earth. I was disappointed, but assumed it must have been a quarterly, or something.

Finally, after collecting all my back issues of Locus that I hadn't been reading (for various reasons), I sat down to plow through them. And noticed that two Fantasy&ScienceFiction issues were reviewed in one issue of Locus. Hang on, I thought, I remember this in the first issue I read. Fantasy&ScienceFiction is a monthly magazine!

I got online and popped off an email. Hi, remember me? I gots no magazines. P.S., please update my contact info.

They sent one back. They probably went to your old address, loser. P.S., July and August issues probably aren't out in the Antipodes.

I thought that would be the last I ever heard from them. But no! I just got a parcel from them, ten days after their email (which is fast from the USA), with all the missing issues, including July and August.

I love Fantasy&ScienceFiction!