Originally published at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Please leave any comments there.

The July 2008 issue is now on sale. Here’s the table of contents:

NOVELLAS

• The Roberts – Michael Blumlein

NOVELETS

• Fullbrim’s Finding – Matthew Hughes
• Poison Victory –  Albert E. Cowdrey

SHORT STORIES

• Reader’s Guide –  Lisa Goldstein
• Enfant Terrible –  Scott Dalrymple
• The Dinosaur Train –  James L. Cambias

DEPARTMENTS

• Books to Look For –  Charles de Lint, covering Duma Key by Stephen King and Jack: Secret Histories by F. Paul Wilson.
• Books –  James Sallis, covering The New Weird edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer and The Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick.
• Plumage from Pegasus: Galley Knaves –  Paul Di Filippo
• Film: "Superpowers Do Not a Superhero Make" –  Kathi Maio, covering Jumper.
• Coming Attractions 
• Curiosities –  F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, covering The Big Ball of Wax: A Story of Tomorrow’s Happy World, by Shepherd Mead (1954).

CARTOONS

• Bill Long

COVER

• Mondolithic Studios for "The Roberts"

Originally published at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Please leave any comments there.

P.E. Cunningham, author of "Monkey See…," which appears in our June 2008 issue–said in an interview that the story was originally written for an anthology with a tight deadline. "Normally it takes me forever to write something — I’ve got book and story fragments and chapters in the closet that go back 10 years or longer — but because of the deadline I had to go to work," she said. "I came up with the basic idea literally overnight, and went from first draft to final sub in two weeks, a land-speed record for me. I sent it out with time to spare … and it got rejected. In truth, I didn’t think F&SF would be interested in a pure sword-and-sorcery story, but then I figured, what the heck. And you guys surprised me and bought it. I didn’t think [F&SF would] like ‘Car 17′ either. Shows what I know. If I could just figure out what editors like, I’d sell a lot more. Hey, wouldn’t we all."