John Joseph Adams

In 2005, Fantasy began as a print magazine, then in 2007 transitioned to online-only. It continued publishing as an online magazine through 2010, and then in 2011 it shifted formats again, this time to match the online-ebook model employed by its sister magazine, Lightspeed. In January 2012, Fantasy merged into Lightspeed, and so now this site exists only as an archive.

However, some new life for Fantasy is now on the horizon! We’ve gone back through the archives, digitized all of the print editions, and ebookified all the online editions, and are now pleased to offer all 57 issues of Fantasy Magazine (2005-2011) in ebook format (epub & mobi).

You can buy each issue individually, or you can purchase “bundles” of back issues at discounted prices. We’re currently offering the following bundles:

Fantasy (2005-2007) – $24.99
Fantasy (2008) – $24.99
Fantasy (2009) – $24.99
Fantasy (2010) – $24.99
Fantasy (2011) – $24.99
Fantasy (MegaBundle: All 57 Issues) – $114.99

Or, if you’re just in the market for some individual ebook issues, that’s great too. Please visit the Store page to peruse our entire selection.

And if you’ve read all of the Fantasy archive and are still hungry for more great fantasy? Then be sure to check out Lightspeed (which, remember, now incorporates Fantasy Magazine). Subscriptions to Lightspeed are available at just $3 a month. Also be sure to check out Lightspeed’s new sister magazine of dark fantasy and horror, Nightmare.

Fantasy (and our sister magazine, Lightspeed) has a new publisher—and it’s me, your humble editor, John Joseph Adams. Our founding publisher, Sean Wallace, decided that he needed to devote more time to his book publishing company, Prime Books, and since I already edit both magazines, I was the natural choice to be his successor. But rest assured: Under my regime, we’ll still be bringing you the same quality fantasy that you’ve come to expect from Fantasy Magazine . . . albeit in a slightly different form than you’re used to.

As of January 2012, Fantasy merged into Lightspeed, so going forward all of Fantasy’s new content will appear as part of Lightspeed instead of here on www.fantasy-magazine.com. We won’t be doing away with any of Fantasy’s fiction, however; each issue of the combined magazine will contain Lightspeed’s four science fiction stories and the four fantasy stories you would have otherwise found in Fantasy. We won’t be reducing the number of stories, or replacing any Fantasy content with Lightspeed content; this is a true merger.

Also, in order to focus more on the fiction side of the magazines, we’ve cut down on our nonfiction. Now, instead of publishing a related nonfiction article alongside each story, we will publish two feature interviews per issue, along with our artist gallery and our usual assortment of author spotlights.

And finally, since we’re doubling the amount of fiction in each issue, we’re going to raise the price of our ebooks—but not by double: We’ll be raising the price to just $3.99. So you’ll be getting twice as much fiction, for just a dollar more per issue; plus, from here on out, each ebook edition of Lightspeed will feature exclusive content that you won’t find on our website—namely, in addition to the eight short stories you’ll also find our website, each ebook issue will now feature a novella-length story.

We’ll keep the fantasy-magazine.com website up as an archive indefinitely, but all future Fantasy content will appear at lightspeedmagazine.com, so be sure to update your bookmarks and RSS feeds!