The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: July 1966 (Volume 31, Number 1)
Cover by Chesley Bonestell (planet captured by Beta Lyrae.)

Novelets: "Founder's Day" by Keith Laumer
"Brain Bank" by Ardrey Marshall
"The Manse of Iucounu" by Jack Vance (a "Cugel" story - part of Eyes of the Overworld.)

Stories: "The Plot Is the Thing" by Robert Bloch
"Experiment in Autobiography" by Ron Goulart
"The Age of Invention" by Norman Spinrad
"Revolt of the Potato Picker" by Herb Lehrman.

Science: "Man in the Sea" by Theodore L. Thomas
"Balancing the Books" by Isaac Asimov.

Joseph W. Ferman is Publisher, Edward L. Ferman is Editor, Ted White is assistant Editor, and Robert P. Mills is Consulting Editor. Book Reviews by Judith Merril; cartoon by Gahan Wilson.