The March 2008 issue of F&SF is now on sale. Also, on the F&SF website is this month’s bonus story, Tropical Nights at the Natatorium by Richard Paul Russo (reprinted from our September 2003 issue).

Here’s the table of contents:

NOVELLAS

• The Overseer – Albert E. Cowdrey
   

NOVELETS

• The Boarder – Alexander Jablokov
   

SHORT STORIES

• Rumple What?  – Nancy Springer
• Exit Strategy  – K. D. Wentworth
• The Second Descent – Richard Paul Russo
• A Ten-Pound Sack of Rice – Richard Mueller
   

DEPARTMENTS

• Books to Look For  – Charles de Lint, covering The Sword-Edged Blonde, by Alex Bledsoe; Blood Bound, by Patricia Briggs; Harlan Ellison’s Dream Corridor; Shatterday, by Harlan Ellison.
• Musing on Books – Michelle West, covering The Secret of Crickley Hall, by James Herbert; Ilario: The Lion’s Eye: The First History Book One, by Mary Gentle; Ilario: The Stone Golem: The First History Book Two, by Mary Gentle; The Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice, by Catherynne M. Valente.
• Plumage from Pegasus: Two CC’s of Bestseller, STAT! – Paul Di Filippo
• Film: "No Gaydar Required" – Kathi Maio, covering The Martian Child.
• Science: Time for Some Change – Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
• Curiosities – Bud Webster, covering Father of the Amazons, by Pete Lewis (1961).
   

CARTOONS

• Bill Long
• Arthur Masear
• S. Harris
   

COVER

• Vincent Di Fate for "The Overseer"