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   US SEMIPROZINE, 7 issues, irregular, Nov 1977-1985, small- BEDSHEET slick format, published by Flight Unlimited, Kansas City; ed Pat CADIGAN. This was brought out by a partnership of Arnold Fenner (publisher) and Cadigan, now better known as a writer, whose first story, "Death from Exposure", was published in \#2 (1978) and went on to win a Balrog AWARD. S was a development from Fenner's previous publication, Chacal, which had been largely devoted to SWORD AND SORCERY. With good covers, and excellent design and interior artwork - including work by Stephen FABIAN - S seemed almost created to prove a point about magazines not having to look tacky. It showcased good fiction, too, mixing sf and fantasy, from MichaelBISHOP, C.J. CHERRYH, Charles L. GRANT, Tanith LEE, Tom REAMY, Lisa TUTTLE, Howard WALDROP and others. It was an astonishingly adept performance, the most spectacular (though by no means the most regular) sf/fantasy magazine of its era, though as a SMALL-PRESS publication it was not indexed in the N.E.S.F.A. magazine indexes. Having proved they could do it, Cadigan and Fenner simply stopped.

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