Ronald Joseph Goulart (; was an American popular culture historian and mystery, fantasy and science fiction author.
Goulart in 2009 at the South Street Seaport
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre illustrated Ron Goulart's story "The Robot Who Came to Dinner" in Analog (July–August 2002).
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas had approached Spivak in the mid-1940s about creating a fantasy companion to Spivak's existing mystery title, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. The first issue was titled The Magazine of Fantasy, but the decision was quickly made to include science fiction as well as fantasy, and the title was changed correspondingly with the second issue. F&SF was quite different in presentation from the existing science fiction magazines of the day, most of which were in pulp format: it had no interior illustrations, no letter column, and text in a single-column format, which in the opinion of science fiction historian Mike Ashley "set F&SF apart, giving it the air and authority of a superior magazine".
An early issue, with an astronomical cover painting by Chesley Bonestell
Lawrence Spivak in 1960
Gordon Van Gelder in 2007
One of Mel Hunter's series of robot covers which began in 1955. This example is from the July 1957 issue.