F&SF's October/November 2009 Issue

Editor Gordon Van Gelder has announced the contents of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction's October/November 2009 issue, which is scheduled to go on sale on 1 September. The table of contents is:

Novella:
"Halloween Town" by Lucius Shepard

Novelets:
"The Far Shore" by Elizabeth Hand
"Bandits of the Trace" by Albert E. Cowdrey
"The Way They Wove the Spells in Sippulgar" by Robert Silverberg
"I Waltzed With a Zombie" by Ron Goulart
"Another Life" by Charles Oberndorf

Short Stories:
"Logicist" by Carol Emshwiller
"Blocked" by Geoff Ryman
"Mermaid" by Robert Reed
"Never Blood Enough" by Joe Haldeman
"The President's Book Tour" by M. Rickert
"Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot LXXI" by Ron Partridge
"Shadows on the Wall of the Cave" by Kate Wilhelm

Departments:
Editorial by Gordon Van Gelder
Books to Look For by Charles de Lint
Musing on Books by Michelle West
Plumage from Pegasus: "Sugar and Spice" by Paul Di Filippo
Coming Attractions
Science: "Seeing Red" by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
Films: "Anti-Trek" by Lucius Shepard
Competition #78
Curiosities by David Langford

Cartoons by Bill Long, Arthur Masear, S. Harris, and Frank Cotham.

The cover art is "Retro Rocket" by David A. Hardy.