There have been more reports of subscribers, who, upset with the magazine’s content, are actually tearing out the offending pages and mailing them back to us along with a subscription cancellation. 

The latest example of this involved David Gerrold’s “thirteen o’clock” in the Feb. 2006 issue. It’s not clear if the subscriber was offended by the story’s content, or by the lack of punctuation.  It’s a toss up.  (There were also Puritanical complaints about the Gary Shockley story, though no pages were torn out in outrage, as far as I know). 

In order to placate these subscribers, F&SF‘s pages will henceforth be perforated to facilitate the removal of offensive material.  We’re definitely still going to keep publishing offensive material though.