As an overseas subscriber to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, I have become used to issues arriving with a charming disregard for anything so mundane as a predictable frequency. This year so far has set a new standard, however. The January issue never arrived at all (admittedly I left it a bit late to resubscribe); the March issue turned up, miraculously, at the start of March; the February issue turned up about a fortnight ago; and I just got back from a brief trip to Glasgow to find that the May issue had arrived. Now, I’m not complaining: after all, the issue includes a new novella by Ian R. Macleod. But that does make three issues arriving in the space of a month, not to mention the first time an issue of F&SF has ever arrived here at approximately the same time that US subscribers (from what I can tell) are receiving their copies. And I can’t help wondering where the April issue’s got to — have any other UK subscribers seen it?
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I also received Jan/Mar/Feb in that order; no sign yet of April or May. I’d also note that NYRSF and Locus both seem to arrive in more like a regular order, though not at regular 1-month intervals…
I have F&SF up to March, but no more beyond that.
As far as Locus is concerned, however, I have received three issues within the last three weeks. I imagine the issue must be to do with surface mail from the US more than anything else.
Dammit – Locus, three issues in five weeks. Too many hours at keyboard, brain hurts.
I gave up on the print version of F&SF because of the erratic postage – mostly it bugged me that I’d see it in Forbidden Planet weeks before it arrived on my doorstep. Now I buy individual download issues from Fictionwise if there’s something in there that looks interesting. It probably works out more expensive, but it annoys me a lot less.