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Originally Posted by cromag
I'm reading hard copy right now. I took advantage of some free time to make a trip to my favorite used book store. I found a few issues of Fantasy and Science Fiction from the 60s -- including one that I remember buying from a drug store magazine rack in 1969 (the cover story was Keith Laumer's Once There Was a Giant, and even as a senior in high school I had been a fan of Laumer's for years). But I had completely forgotten that there was also a Fred Saberhagen non-Berserker story, etc., etc.!
I'll be back on battery power soon!
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That was fun! I still like Laumer's story, although I approach it from a different perspective at 62 than I did at 16. This story is included in Odyssey, available from Baen.
The Saberhagen story, Young Girl at an Open Half-door was a great time travel short! I vaguely remembered the setting, but had completely forgotten the storyline and details. Today's me would rank it the best story in the magazine. It appears that this story was reprinted in a paperback anthology of Saberhagen's entitled My Best, but it doesn't look like it has ever been reissued as an ebook. Which is a shame.
I haven't completely read the issue, but I rarely read magazines or anthologies in one go.
Now, I've started Lovers & Fighters, Starships & Dragons, an anthology of stories by Tom Purdom -- on my ereader. The opening story, Fossil Games, was very good!