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in dedication... tales of science & fantasy There is always a trend, in any field, to honor the great creators more than the great organizers. But certainly the Linaeus did as much as Darwin; surely the reference library is as great a triumph of modern technology as EDITORS the cyclotron. Thus, it is to the forgotten men of modern science fiction, the tireless bibliographers, that we humbly dedicate this issue: MALCOLM WILLITS EVERETT BIEILER BRADFORD DAY DONALD DAY and SAM MOSKOWITZ DONALD TUCK EDWARD WOOD EARL KEMP
VOLUME I FALL 1954 NUMBER XI HERE IS 1953! You are holding an index to THE year of science fiction. During 1953 more issues of science fiction magazines appeared THAN IN THE ENTIRE FIRST SIX AND A HALF YEARS OF SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE PUBLICATION. COVER...... THE DEPARTURE...... Neil Austin You have had it! Never again will your pockets be so pinched, the 1953 index IS and will remain THE largest single year index. EDITORIAL...... The Editors 2 In the fourth/final issue of Journal of Science Fiction, Edward Wood said, ”0f indexing and indexes, there is never an end...... the field is THE DESTINY INDEX OF FANTASY-1953...Edward Wood & 4 covered at least until 1953. It would be unfortunate if a gap were allowed to appear. It is time for someone else to do a little work. They might Heading by James Newberry Earl Kemp even get to like work, an ancient and honorable method og getting things ART EDITOR done,'* THE SF MAGAZINES...... 5 While we at Destiny are not generally adverse to work, as past efforts JAMES NEWBERRY show, we thought little of Ed’s remarks. As the time drew near for a com THE SF BOOKS...... Compiled by Earl Kemp 41 plete index to appear, we repeatedly asked Ed to allow us to print his index. After tabulating the ’’Absolute NO’s” received from such requests we WHITE PAPER: 1953-1954...... Edward Wood 47 now present to you the Edward Wood, 1953 MAGAZINE INDEX. A chore that has spanned more than a year to complete. A pity it will go so little appre ADVERTISING...... 61 ciated, by professional and amateur alike. The early month magazine issues appear months ahead during the previous year, and the foreign editions TEMPLE OF THE MYSTERIES...... Lilith Lorraine 64 occasionally take months into the following year to secure. Added difficulty is encountered in securing the magazines not distributed in the Chicago Hl. by Ralph Rayburn Phillips area. When the index manuscript was received from Edward Wood, additional material was supplied to it, as well as being edited and arranged by Earl Kemp, with the assistance of George Price and Bess Benjamin. As soon as the Destiny staff knew of the pending publication we contacted every professional magazine editor in the field and asked their cooperation in announcing the forthcoming index. At this time we offer our grateful thanks CONTRIBUTING and acknowledgment to the ONLY editors who thought the work worthy of mention. Anthony Boucher is twice thanked for mention in The Magazine of EDITORS Fantasy and Science Fiction and The New York HearId Tribune Book Review Nancy Kemp Section, and gracious bows to Robert Lowndes for mention in Science Fiction Edward Wood DESTINY Tales of Science-Fantasy Vol. 1 No. 11, Fall Quarterly. Stanley Sommer 1954, published quarterly by Malcolm Willits and Earl PLEASE: If any error is to be found in this index, notify us at once, Hyacinthe Hill Kemp. DESTINY is an amateur copyrighted magazine your cooperation in this matter will be most sincerely appreciated. Roberta Collins published on a non-profit basis, and all material Only time will show how valuable this index is for reference purposes, Lilith Lorraine therein is paid for in copies of that issue. Adver so, refraining from any further comment, the editors and the staff of Robert E» Briney tising rates are: 1 page-$5.00, page-$2.50, page- Destiny, with the most absolute pleasure present: $1.50, classified advertising 25£ per column inch. REFERENCE VOLUME NUMBER ONE: the year 1953 Subscriptions are $1.00 for four issues or 35# per 1. The magazines, as compiled by Edward Wood copy. Please send all material, ads, and subscrip 2. The books, as compiled by Earl Kemp tions to DESTINY, 3508 N. Sheffield Avenue, Chicago 13, Illinois, or 11848 S.E. Powell Blvd., Portland + CONCLUDED ON PAGE 63 + 66, Oregon. ALL CONTENTS COPYRIGHT 1954 #11 DESTINY 5 AMAZING STORIES January (282) Arnold Kohn 27-1 ♦Frontiers Beyond the Sun Mallory Storm 4OM N Beecham Luna On the Left Charles Creighton 6m SS Fay Death Beyond the Veil E. K. Jarvis 30M N Slade Sorceress, The Rog Phillips 14m NV Beecham February (285) Robert Frank 27-2 ♦Outlaw in the Sky Guy Archette 4om N Francis Floating Lords, The Chester S. Geier 6m SS Novarro Lady Killer, The Franklin Bahl 11M NV Emsler Curse, The Ivar Jorgensen 3M SS Lundy You Can't Stay Here Walt Crain 6m SS Emsh Heat's On, The Clyde Woodruff 11M NV Emsler March (284) Harris Levey 27-5 (Last pulp-size, 250 issue) Imposter, The Paul Lohrman 25M N Slade Operation: Tombstone E. K. Jarvis 7M SS Garo Side Road to Glory Robert Eggert Lee 11M NV Garo Your Funeral is Waiting Rog Phillips 8m SS Slade Time Trap Mallory Storm 8.5M SS Barth Thousand-Legged Agent Noel Loomis 10M NV Francis Forest of the Night D. A. Addams 4.5M SS Dotzenko April/May (285) Barye Phillips 27-4 (First digest-size, 550 issue) ♦Mars Confidential! Jack Lait & Lee Mortimer SS Summers Project Nightmare Robert A. Heinlein NV Ashman No Charge For Alterations H. L. Gold NV Sharp Way Home, The Theodore Sturgeon SS Stone Turnover Point Alfred Coppel SS Emsh Belly Laugh Ivar Jorgensen SS Berger Here There Be Tygers Ray Bradbury SS O'Sullivan -from New Tales of Space and Time (1st draft of story) Henry Holt & Co., 1951- Last Day, The Richard Matheson SS Kay Invaders, The Murray Leinster NV ? BACK COVER Jack Coggins June/July (286) Barye Phillips 27-5 Encounter in the Dawn Arthur C. Clarke SS ? This Amazing World Howard Browne A NONE I, Dreamer Walter M. Miller, Jr. SS Ashman Restricted Area Robert Sheckley SS Dotzenko Collectors, The Gordon Dewey SS Rosenbaum Transfusion Curtis W. Casewit SS Rosenbaum Day the Gods Fell, The Ivar Jorgensen SS Stone Big Freeze, The Boyd Ellanby SS Garo So Wise, So Young Graham Doar SS Valigursky Man From Saturn, The Harriet Frank, Jr. N Stone August/September (287) Gaylord Welker 27-6 •Senator and the Robot, The Ivar Jorgensen SS Barth Dream of Victory Algis Budrys SS Emsh Closed Door, The Kendall Foster Crossen SS ? Or Else Henry Kuttner SS Francis Never Go Back Charles V. DeVet SS Barth Yokel, The Walter M. Miller, Jr. NV Mendoza Commuter, The Philip K. Dick SS Ashman Phantom Truck Driver, The Rog Phillips SS Ashman October/November (288) Art Sussman 27-7 Rocket Station on Luna (unsigned picture inside front cover.) Big Tomorrow, The Paul Lohrman SS Kossin Beside Still Waters Robert Sheckley SS Finlay Way of Thinking, A Theodore Sturgeon NV Schroeder Little Girl Lost Richard Matheson SS Houlihan (Aug./Sept, listing continues 1lext pa,ge) 6 DESTINY #u #u ______DESTINY______7 AMAZING STORIES ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION (Aug./Sept, conclusion) (May conclusion) Mathematicians, The Arthur Feldman ss Lake Operating Instructions Robert Sheckley SS Schecterson Visitor From the Void Richard Wilson ss Wileon Mission of Gravity (2) Hal Clement SR Van Dongen VG Houlihan Hands, The Richard Sternback June (271) Correy 51-4 Sloths of Kruvny, The Vern Fearing SS Sharp ♦’’..And A Star to Steer Her By”' Lee Correy NV Van Dongen Enormous Room, The H. L. Gold & Robert Krepps N O'Sullivan Quiz Game Frank M. Robinson SS Dreany December-1955/January-1952*- (289) Imposter Philip K. Dick SS Pawelka Mel Hunter 27-8 In Case of Fire... Wallace West A Photos A Portfolio Ernest Schroeder A Schroeder Whirligig World Hal Clement A Clement I Love Lucifer William P. MeGivern SS Schroeder Mission of Gravity (3) Hal Clement SR Van Dongen SS Martin One Way Street Jerome Bixby July (272) Miller 51-5 Weapon, The Thelma D. Hamm VG Rosenbaum ♦Enough Rope Poul Anderson NV Miller Million Dollar Maybe Evan Hunter SS Kossin Solution Delayed Mark Clifton & Alex Apostolides Builder, The Philip K. Dick ss Emsh SS Orban Teaford Pin, The Robert Bloch ss Survival Don Green NV Dreany Barth Eddie For Short Wallace West ss Locum Tenens Wallace West A Photos Schroeder Star Child Bill Peters ss Mission of Gravity (4 concl.) Hal Clement SR Van Dongen Perfect Woman, The Robert Sheckley ss NONE Man Next Door, The Bruce Elliott ss Houlihan August (273) Van Dongen 51-6 •Sam Hall Poul Anderson NV Stockwell ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION Pioneer Lee Correy SS Van Dongen Share Our World Chad Davis NV Orban January (266) George Pawelka 50-5 Commencement Night Richard Ashby SS Miller Pawelka •Un-Man Poul Anderson N Crazy Joey Mark Clifton & Alex Apostolides talk by Alfonso Tammaro A Photos First Power Pile, The ss Van Dongen Earth's Ghostly Companion in Space Thinking in Men and Machines Joseph A. Winter, M.D. A NONE R. S. Richardson A NONE These Shall Not Be Lost E. B. Cole NV Orban September (27^) Miller 52-1 Secret Lee Cahn SS Cartier ♦What Thin Partitions Mark Clifton & Alex Apostolides Captives, The Julian Chain SS Van Dongen NV Vidmer Stamp From Moscow Steve Benedict ss Orban Little Joe Algis Budrys SS Miller Humpty Dumpty Henry Kuttner NV Freas Van Dongen February (267) 50-6 Destruction From Atomic Weapons Lt. Theodore S. Simpson A Graphs McGuire •Null-ABC (1) H. Beam Piper & John J. Venus of Troy Daniel Whitton A Graphs SR Van Dongen "Rare” Metal AEC Release A NONE SS Van Dongen Cog, The Charles E. Fritch Garden in the Forest, The Robert F. Young SS Van Dongen NV Orban Safety Valve Richard deMille Gimmick Katherine MacLean SS Vidmer Oil, Secret Agents and Wooly Bears Wallace West A Photos October (275) Frank Kelly Freas 52-2 Crucifixus Etiam Walter M. Miller, Jr. SS Orban •Gulf Between, The Tom Godwin N Freas Nightmare Brother Alan E. Nourse NV Orban Test, The Ralph Williams SS Kirberger For the Glory of Agon Irving Cox, Jr. SS Orban Belief Isaac Asimov NV Miller Filming ’’War of the Worlds” George Pal A Photos March (268) George Pawelka 51-1 How to Talk to a Martian G. R. Shipman A NONE NV Pawelka •Thou Good and Faithful John Loxmith Scavengers, The James White SS Van Dongen Button, Button Thomas Wilson NV Orban Five Billion Dollar Magpie Wallace West A Photos November (276) 52-3 Fool's Mate Robert Sheckley SS Orban COVER: Photograph of the U. N. Building Null-ABC (2 conclusion) H. Beam Piper & John J. McGuire Sam Andre SR Pawelka •Window To Tomorrow John W. Campbell, Jr. A NONE Trade Secret Raymond F. Jones NV Van Dongen Van Dongen 51-2 April (269) Happiness Effect, The Raymond E. Banks SS Freas Hal Clement SR Van Dongen •Mission of Gravity (1) Potential Robert Sheckley SS Sussman Charles Dye & April Smith NV Van Dongen Settle to One Earthman Come Home James Blish NV Miller JWC ?? A Photos Nature Didn't Make It Logical Parallax, The Gotthard Gunther A Charts, etc. William T. Powers SS Pawelka Allegory Sharpies, The John Murphy SS Freas Ant and the Eye, The Chad Oliver NV Pawelka Family Resemblance Alan E. Nourse SS Pawelka December (277) Van Dongen 52-4 ♦Hide! Hide! Witch! Mark Clifton & Alex Apostolides 51-3 May (LOGO CHANGE WITH THIS ISSUE) (270) NV Kirberger COVER: Interplanetary Industrial Design Ill Wind Lee Correy SS Freas Austin R. Baer Mother of Invention Tom Godwin NV Freas John E. Arnold A Various •Space, Time and Education Counterspy Kelley Edwards SS Mirachi Robert Moore Williams NV Dreany Medicine Show Micropsychiatric Applications of Thiotimoline, The Algis Budrya SS Pawelka Multifarious Isaac Asimov SF Irving E. Cox, Jr. NONE Lady With A Past SS Orban (December listing continues next page) (May listing continues next page) 8 DESTINY fl-1 fll DESTINY 9 ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION MONTHLY (British) (December conclusion) (July conclusion) Mystery of the Blue Mist of Mars, The Tonight the Sky Will Fall Daniel F. Galouye NV Mallory R. S* Richardson A NONE -from Imagination, May, 1952 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++t++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION MONTHLY (British) August (36) Davis 1-36 Tree, The Bryan Berry SS Fischer ISSUE) (29) January (LOGO CHANGE WITH THIS Solar System, The (4) Earth H. J. Campbell ? SRA unsigned Vann 1-29 Planet of Change John Christopher SS Davis William F, Temple N Richards •Immortal's Playthings Lone Wolf Eric Storm SS NONE 1953 "Field of Battle" -from Other Worlds, February, Loneliest World, The J. F. Burke SS NONE Ray Bradbury SS Fischer Welcome Brothers My Name is Ozymandias Martin Jordan NV Davis -from Planet Stories, Fall, 1948 "Mars is Heaven" S-F Handbook (?) H. J. Campbell ? SRA NONE S. J. Bounds SR Davis Frontier Legion (4) •Blast-Off!, The H. J. Campbell ? SRA NONE Richards 1-30 February (J50) September (37) Davis S. J. Byrne N Fischer 1-37 ♦Lady of Flame Adaptable Man, The Bryan Berry R. M. Rodes SS Davis NV Davis Dangerous Power Solar System, The (5) Mars H, J. Campbell ? SRA unsigned F, J. Ackerman SS Fischer What an Idea! Repulsion Factor Charles Eric Maine SS Davis S. J. Bounds SR Davis Frontier Legion (5) Beyond the Barriers Jon J. Deegan SS NONE 5" BACK COVER: "Dream of the Stars S-F Handbook ((?) conclusion) H, J. Campbell ? SRA NONE March (31) Richards 1-31 Piper, The Alan Hunter SS NONE ♦The Rose Charles L, Harness N Fischer Shining Ark, The Brindley Ford SS NONE Never Been Kissed E. Everett Evans SS Davis ♦Man’s First Leap Into Space? H. J. Campbell ? SRA NONE -from Other Worlds, September, 1950 "Little Miss Ignorance" October (38) Davis 1-38 Frontier Legion (6 conclusion) S, J, Bounds SR Davis (MODERNIZED INTERIOR LAYOUT BEGINS WITH THIS ISSUE) BACK COVER: "Dream of the Star!5" Old Man of the Stars J. F. Burke NV Gerald April (52) Davis 1-32 Conversation Piece E, C. Tubb SS Davis Solar System, The (1) Sol H. J. Campbell ? SRA NONE Solar System, The (6) Asteroids H. J. Campbell ? SRA unsigned Haunted Atoms A. E. Van Vogt SS Fischer Haunting, The Arthur Sellings SS Gerald -from Ten Story Fantasy. Spring, 1951 Relativity Brindley Ford SS Davis Toy, The R. M. Rhodes SS Davis Mutations H. J. Campbell A NONE Manna From Heaven Rick Conroy SS Fischer Brainy Affair, A John Falkner SS NONE ♦Cry Chaos! Dwight V. Swain NV Davis Megalocosmos Macleod Robertson SS NONE -from Imagination, September , 1951 •Constructing an artificial Satellite SF Under A Cloud John Christopher A NONE H. J. Campbell ? SRA NONE BACK COVER: Morris Scott Dollens November (?City Bryan Berry SS Mallory Blemish John Christopher 4 SS Davis Only Human Albert Hernhuter SS Davis Solar System, The (7) Jupiter H, J. Campbell ? SRA unsigned How They Landed Jack Ramstrom SS NONE Transition David Wilcox SS NONE ♦Mind Within Mind William F. Temple NV Fischer ♦Finished Artificial Satellite H. J. Campbell ? SRA NONE BACK COVER: "Spaceways" movie still December (40) Davis 1-90 June (34) Davis 1-39 Best Laid Scheme, The Kelvin Strike N Davis Solar System, The (2; Mercury H, J. Campbell ? SRA unsigned Solar System, The (8) Saturn H. J. Campbell ? SRA unsigned Cancel Tomorrow J. F. Burke SS Fischer Amateur Talent Dan Morgan SS Muller Ultimate Species A. J. Merak SS Mallory Inner Worlds and my Uncle, The M. Dogge SS NONE Old Man Henderson Kris Neville SS Mallory ESP H, J. Campbell ? A NONE -from Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June, 1951 For You, The Possessed J. F. Burke SS Muller Passing the Torch Kris Neville A NONE Cuckoo Martin Jordan SS Davis Davis ♦Man Named Mars, A Rog Phillips NV Go to the Ants A. P. Kift SS NONE -see Other Worlds, October, 1950 (A. R. Steber) ♦Man Approaches Mars H. J. Campbell ? SRA NONE BACK COVER: "War of the Worlds " movie still 1-35 AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER July (35) Davis SS Fischer Sword From The Stars Frank Quattrocchi January (1) Leo Manso 1-1 ■ swqra" -from IF: Worlds of Science Fiction, March, 1953 "The For Humans Only Alfred Coppel SS Kinstler uus j-gueu Solar System, The (3) Venus H. J. Campbell 7 Like Gods They Came Irving E. Cox, Jr, SS unsigned SS Davis Eve Hated Adam Rick Conroy Forgotten Enemy, The Arthur C, Clarke SS Giunta A NONE Widening Gulf Bryan Berry -from New Worlds #5» 1949 SS TJDKnr Home is Tomorrow . Dan Morgan QJuly listing continues next I)age) (January listing continues next page) 10 DESTINY #11 DESTINY 11 AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER COSMOS SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY MAGAZINE (January conclusion) September (1) ?Schomburg? 1-1 Agents, The Bryce Walton SS Giunta Troublemakers, The Poul Anderson NV unsigned Mr. Kowtshook John Christopher SS Kinstier Fiends in the Bedroom, The John Jakes SS unsigned -from Science-Fantasy, Spring,, 1953 Orneks and the Gogos, The Charles E. Fritch SS unsigned Shed, The E. Everett Evans SS McCann Great C., The Philip K. Dick SS unsigned Come Blow Your Horn Milton Lesser SS Lawrence Curse, The Arthur C. Clarke SS unsigned Call of the Black Lagoon,, The Charles L. Harness SS McCann Icarus Brought to Earth R. S. Richardson A NONE Agatha Glen Malin SS Napoli Gateway A. Bertram Chandler NV unsigned Checkmate Morning John Jakes SS Giunta Big Tick, The Ross Rocklynne SS unsigned One-Man God Frank Owen SS Kinstler November (2) B. Salron 1-2 -from Avon Fantasy Reader #17 <, 1951 Visitor From Nowhere B. Traven NV unsigned Short Count, The Theodore R. Cogswell SS Kinstler Gentlemen is an Eqwa, The Carl Jacobi SS unsigned April (2) Leo Manso 1-2 Hot Squat A. Bertram Chandler SS unsigned D P ! Jack Vance SS Kinstler Dere Sir: '‘What Did You do to the Moon?” Rather Improbable History of Hillary Kiffer, The R. S. Richardson A NONE William Vine SS Lawrence With Intent To Kill John Jakes SS unsigned Survivor Irving E. Cox, Jr. SS Giunta Terran Menace N. R. SS unsigned Breaking Point John Christopher SS Giunta Outside in the Sand Evan Hunter SS unsigned -from New Worlds, May, 1952 Expatriate Larry M. Harris SS unsigned As Holy and Enchanted Henderson Starke SS Nodel Our Solar H-Bomb S. M. Turner A NONE Hunt the Red Roe Alan Payne SS McCann Shape-Up Jack Vance SS unsigned Crack of Doom Milton Lesser SS Kinstler Guilty, The Alfred Coppel SS NONE Agent, The Stephen Marlowe SS Lawrence ++++4- + + + + + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + + + + ++ ++ + + + + + + + + ++4- + + + +++ + + ++++-♦■ + + + + + + 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4- Forever is so Long John Jakes SS Kinstler DYNAMIC SCIENCE FICTION Night On Mars Hill, A R. S. Richardson A NONE Parasite, The Arthur C. Clarke SS Giunta March (2) Milton Luros 1-2 Cyril Judd NV Orban PUBLICATION.SUSPENDED.. Sea-Change »•++++++■+•+++++++++++++++++++++++ +4-4-4-4-4-+++++++++++ Secret Invasion Walter Kubilius NV Orban Noel Loomis SS Murphy BEYOND FANTASY FICTION •Little Green Man Turn of a Century James Blish SS Luros July (1) Richard Powers 1-1 Possessed, The Arthur C. Clarke SS Kiemle ...And My Fear is Great... Theodore Sturgeon NA Ashman Seventh Wind, The Charles Dye SS Luros All of you James McConnell SS Balbalis World of Ice Albert Hernhuter SS Kiemle Day The World Ended, The Frank M. Robinson SS James Philosophy of Science Fiction, The (1) Springbird, The Roger Dee SS Barth James E. Gunn SRA Orban Babel II Damon Knight NV Emsh Milton Luros 1-3 Share Alike Jerome Bixby & Joe E. Dean SS Kossin June (3) Double Identity Raymond Z. Gallun NV Orban Wedding, The Richard Matheson SS Fay ”If The Court Pleases” Noel Loomis NV Murphy Eye For Iniquity T. L. Sherred NV Sibley Timber Richard Barr & Wallace West SS Luros September (2) Richard Powers 1-2 Something For The Birds Dave Dryfoos SS Luros Wall Around The World, The Theodore R. Cogswell NV Sussman Modern Merlin, A L. Sprague de Camp A NONE Wire-Haired Radical Joseph Shallit SS Cavat Philosophy of Science Fiction, The (2 conclusion) Can Such Beauty Be? Jerome Bixby SS Kossin James E. Gunn SRA Orban Talent Theodore Sturgeon SS Barth Never Trust An Intellectual Raymond E. Banks SS Murphy Dream Makers, The Robert Bloch NV Emsh Go Fast On Interplane Wallace Baird Halleck SS Murphy ? M. C. Pease SS Freas Little Pile, A Alex Schomburg 1-4 John Wyndham SS Cavat August (4) How Do I Do? James Blish & Michael Sherman Joe L. Hensley SS James Duplicated Man, The And Not Quite Human N Orban Kid Stuff Isaac Asimov SS MacIntyre •Last Man in the Moon, The Charles Dye SS Luros Goddess on the Street Corner, The Margaret St. Clair SS Balbalis Winning Losers, The Gene L. Henderson SS Luros King of the Elves, The Philip K. Dick NV Barth No Greater Glory W. Malcolm White SS NONE November (3) Rene Vidmer 1-3 Alex Schomburg 1-5 Real People, The Algis Budrys NA Ashman October (5) Temple of Despair M. C. Pease NV Sibley Helpful Haunt, The Richard Deming SS Kossin •Snail’s Pace Algis Budrys SS Luros Hush! Zenna Henderson SS Don Rico Boyd Ellanby NV Sale Plot-Forms of Science Fiction, The (1) House...Wife James E. Gunn SRA NONE Just Imagine Ted Reynolds SS Vidmer Night-Fear Frank Belknap Long SS Sibley Big Breeze, The Franklin Gregory SS Sale Machine Complex Leonard Wampler SS unsigned Sorry Right Number Richard Matheson SS Sussman Poetess and the 21 Grey-Haired Cadavers, The My Darling Hecate Wyman Guin NV Emsh Malcolm White SS Orban "Skylark" Smith: an Appreciation Anthony K. Van Riper A NONE Fishers of Men Hal Annas SS Murphy 12 DESTINY /U. DESTINY 13 FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES (suspended) FANTASTIC February (79)(NEW LOGO) Saunders 14-2 (May/June conclusion) ♦Full Moon Talbot Mundy N Finlay Sally Isaac Asimov NV Emsh -from the book, Appleton-Century, 1954-35 Guest Artist Roger Dee NV O’Sullivan Ekrerar of Palorae and Two Thousand Years Later A Portfolio De Persiis A De Persiis Louis M. Hobbs V Lawrence Roller Coaster, The Alfred Bester SS Krigstein Eyes of Dromu, The Cedric R. Mentiplay SS Finlay Room With A View Esther Carlson SS Summers Hardly Worth Mentioning Chad Oliver NV Barth April (80) (misdated 1943) Lawrence 14-3 Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer Stephen Vincent Beneit NV Pitz H. Rider Haggard N Lawrence ♦Wanderer’s Necklace, The -from Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet, Rinehart & Co., 1937 -from the book, ? , 1914 copyright renewed 19*1 On The Rim of Space Stanton A. Cobletz V Bok July/August (7) Rupert Conrad 2-4 Espadrilles, The Margaret St. Clair SS Finlay Confidence Trick John Wyndham SS Sharp Four Men and a Suit Case Ralph Robin SS Kay June (81) Lawrence 14-4 Operation Mind-Pick William P. McGivern NV Vidar/Knoth ♦Anthem Ayn Rand NV Finlay Don’t Take it to Heart H. L. Gold SS Harrigton -from the book, ? , 1946 Glasses, The Charles Larson SS Ashman Dirge (Aztec) Louis M. Hobbs V Finlay Wishing Stone, The Ivar Jorgensen SS Castenair Metamorphosis, The Franz Kafka NV Lawrence Magic Ends at Midnight, The Robert Terrall SS Tucker -from Schocken Books, Inc,, 1952 Dark Room, The Theodore Sturgeon NV Emsh Haunted Hostel Emma L’Hommediew Frost V Finlay Altar, The Robert Sheckley SS Cossette Worms of the Earth Robert E. Howard NV Finlay Man Who Liked Dickens, The Evelyn Waugh SS Stone -from Weird Tales, November, 1932 -from A Handful of Dust, Little, Brown & Co., 1934 Find The Happy Children Benjamin Ferris SS Lawrence Pendulum Ray Bradbury & Henry Hasse SS Lawrence September/October (8) Leo R. Summers 2-5 -from Super Science Stories, November, 1941 Wolf Pack Walter M. Miller, Jr.> SS Krigstein Bernie Goes To Hell Arthur Dekker Savage SS Finlay A Portfolio Gustav Rehberger A Rehberger Great Day For the Amorous, A Ralph Robin SS Barth PUBLICATION SUSPENDED Amphytrion 40 William P. McGivern NV Sharp Mother By Protest Richard Matheson NV Houlihan FANTASTIC Monsters, The Jerome Bixby SS Sharp January/February (4) 2-1 Wild Talents Inc. Robert Sheckley SS Emsh WRAP-AROUND COVERS: Robert Frankenberg No Return From Elba Mack Reynolds SS Delgado Wonder Child Joseph Shallit NV Emsh Moment For Laughter, A Phillip Latham SS Emsh Love is a Barometer Del Molarsky SS Welker Secret Weapon Ivar Jorgensen SS Stone Mad House Richard Matheson NV Ashman November/December (9) Vernon Kramer 2-6 Isle of Blight Samuel Hopkins Adams SS O’Sullivan Let’s do it for Love Robert Bloch SS unsigned Man With The Fine Mind, The Kris Neville SS Summers Never Mind A Martian William P. McGivern SS Del Bourgo World is so People, The Dean Evans SS Emsh What A Man Believes Robert Sheckley SS Pitz Close Behind Him John Wyndham SS Lundy From This Dark Mind Rog Phillips SS Stone Satan Sends Flowers Henry Kuttner SS Beecham A Portfolio Gyula Zilzer A Zilzer Time Bum C. M. Kornbluth SS Stone Chase, The Bill Peters SS Barth Lighthouse, The Edgar Allen Poe & Robert Bloch Wrong People, The Ralph Robin SS Emsh -from Berg Collection, N.Y. Public Library (Poe half) NV Finlay Siren Sounds at Midnight, The Frank M. Robinson SS Ashman March/April (5) 2-2 Methuselah, Ltd. Wallace West & Richard BarrSSD. S.(tone) WRAP-AROUND COVERS: Richard Powers Third Guest, The B. Traven NV O’Sullivan FANTASTIC ADVENTURES Delicate Dinosaur, The William Markham Altman SS Bryan IMPORTANT: The issue numbering is one high in the 1951 and 1952 indexes. Cold Green Eye, The Jack Williamson SS Barth Change your copies accordingly for the correct figures. Ivar Jorgensen SS Emsh Something For The Woman January (126) Frank Novarro Maurice Walsh SS Ashman 15-1 Sword of Yung Lo, The ♦House That Hate Built, The Peter Dakin Franklin Gregory SS Berger 35M N Emsh Stop on the Red Case for Mephisto, A Frank McGivern m SS Stone J. T. M’Intosh SS Emsh 6 Escape Me Never Gods of Madness, The Chester S. Geier 5M SS Francis Shirley Jackson SS Finlay Root of Evil Rim of Faith, The B. K. Jarvis 10M NV Novarro Star Falls on Broadway, A Harry Fletcher VG Summers Three Wishes Poul Anderson SS Francis February (127) William Slade 15-2 Devil George And Rosie, The John Collier NV Stone Miracle at the County Mallory Storm 12M NV Slade -from The Devil And All, Nonesuch Press, London, 193* Cast of Characters E. K. Jarvis 6 •5M SS Valigursky Tourists, The Billy Rose SS Garo Gods Under Glass Guy Archette 6 .5M SS Barth -from Pitching Horseshoes, ? , 1949, NOT Rose, this date staff written Menace, The Rog Phillips 8m NV Slade Man Called Meteor, A Alexander Blade 8m NV Francis 2-3 May/June (6) Involuntary Enemy, The Robert Arnette 5M SS Francis WRAP-AROUND COVERS: W. T. Mars Wandering Graveyard, The Walt Crain 7 .5M SS Francis Jinn and Tonic William P. McGivern NV Sharp Reservation Deferred John Wyndham SS Berger March (128) Frank Novarro 15-3 (May/June listing continues next page) (March listing continues next page) 14 DESTINY #11 #11 DESTINT 15 FANTASTIC ADVENTURES FANTASTIC STORY MAGAZINE (March conclusion) (July conclusion) 17M NV Francis ♦Gambit on Ganymede Alexander Blade There’s Always Amanda Sam Merwin, Jr. SS Poulton Ivar Jorgensen 15M NV Francis Beast, The Lazarus II Richard Matheson SS 15M NV Novarro Woman’s World Ted Taine Indefigable Frog, The Philip K. Dick SS Emsh Noel Loomis 4M SS Francis Ceti Was a Whale Star-bent A. Kulik V NONE Boy Meets Tree Ted Thomey 5M SS Dotzenko Projection From Epsilon Gordon MacCreagh 7%M SS Olesen September (17) Alex Schomburg 6-2 Island in the Sky Manly Wade Wellman NV Finlay PUBLICATION SUSPENDED, -from Thrilling Wonder Stories, October, 1941 FANTASTIC STORY MAGAZINE Gadget Baghdad R. W." Stockheker SS Poulton Hyperpilosity L. Sprague de Camp SS Poulton? January (13) Earle K. Bergey 5-1 -from Astounding Science Fiction, April, 193° NV Orban Yank At Valhalla, A Edmond Hamilton Doomstruck Clyde B. Smith SS Poulton? -from Startling Stories , January, 1941 Man Who Looked Like Steinmetz, The Merman, The L. Sprague de Camp SS Poulton Robert Moore Williams SS Napoli -from Astounding Science Fiction, December, 1938 -from Thrilling Wonder Stories, June, 1938 Case of Jack Freysling, The Thomas Calvert McClary as Dreany Martians Came to Dinner, The Charles A. Stearns SS Poulton? -from Astounding Science Fiction, October, 1944 Stolen Centuries Otis Adelbert Kline SS Orban ? Murray Leinster NV Orban Eternal Now, The -from Thrilling Wonder Stories, June, 1939 Stories, Fall, 1944 -from Thrilling Wonder Liberation Sam Sackett SS unsigned Richard Matheson SS Orban ? Disinheritors, The Experiment Roscoe Clark, F.R.C.S. SS unsigned Frank M. Robinson SS Orban Viewpoint Sonnet To Pebbles Alfred I. Tooke V NONE Divided We Fall Alfred Coppel SS Schomburg March (14) Alex Schomburg 5-2 FANTASTIC UNIVERSE SCIENCE FICTION Leigh Brackett N Finlay Shadow Over Mars June/July (1) Alex Schomburg 1-1 i, Fall, 1944 -from Startling Stories Nightmare Tower Jacques Jean Ferrat NV L. Sprague de Camp SS Schomburg Best Laid Scheme, The Viscous Circle A. Bertram Chandler SS -from Astounding Science Fiction, February, 1941 Little Men of Space Frank Belknap Long SS Henry Kuttner NV Orban Baby Face Fire and the Flesh, The E. Hoffman Price NV -from Thrilling Wonder Stories, Spring, 1945 Maugham Obsession, The August Derleth SS Horace L. Gold SS Orban Hero Other Tiger, The Arthur C. Clarke SS -from Thrilling Wonder Stories, October, 1939 Gene L. Henderson SS SS Orban Small Bears, The War of the Weeds, The Carl Jacobi Martians Come in Clouds Philip K. Dick SS Stories, February, 1939 -from Thrilling Wonder Minister Had to Wait, The Roger Dee SS Richard Matheson SS Emsh Death Ship Finders Keepers Milton Lesser SS Joseph Slotkin SS Poulton Too Bad You Died War in Heaven Fletcher Pratt A May (15) Emsh 5-3 Time in Thy Flight Ray Bradbury SS Devils From Darkonia Jerry Shelton N Poulton It’s in the Blood Eric Frank Russell SS -from Thrilling Wonder Stories, Spring, 1945 Of Those Who Came George Longdon SS Jerry Shelton N Emsh Battle of the Brains August/September (2) Alex Schomburg 1-2 Stories, Spring, 1946 -from Thrilling Wonder Mighty Dead, The William Campbell Gault SS Kelvin Kent SS ? Science is Golden Full Circle Richard Matheson SS Stories, April, 1940 -from Thrilling Wonder This is Klon Calling Walt Sheldon SS Murray Leinster SS Beecham ? De Profundis What Price Venus? Evan Hunter NV Stories, Winter, 1945 -from Thrilling Wonder Matter of Timing, A A. Bertram Chandler SS Ed Weston NV Emsh Cosmic Caravan Disintegrating Sky, The Poul Anderson SS -from Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fall, 1945 Irving E. Cox, Jr. NV SS Schomburg Instant of Now, The Below Absolute Curt Storm Arthur G. Stangland SS SS ? House From Nowhere, The Dear Charles William Fitzgerald Andrew North SS Robert Moore Williams SS Orban All Cats Are Gray To the Stars Very Black, The Dean Evans SS July (16) Walter Popp 6-1 Spulchre of Jasper Sarasen, The H. Russell Wakefield SS Through the Blackboard Joel Townsley Rogers NV Finlay Broken Record, The James MacGregor (M’Intosh) SS -from Thrilling Wonder Stories, June, 1943 Questing of Foster Adams, The Clifford D. Simak SS Pi in the Sky Fredric Brown NV Emsh Great Deal of Power, A Eric Frank Russell SS Stories, Winter, 1945 -from Thrilling Wonder Alex Schomburg 1-3 Murray Leinster NV Orban October/November (3) Dead City Jacques Jean Ferrat N Stories, Summer, 1946 Sane Men of Satan, The -from Thrilling Wonder Evelyn E. Smith SS L. Sprague de Camp NV Orban Nightmare on the Nose Gnarly Man, The Planet for Transients Philip K. Dick SS -from Unknown, June, 1939 George Whitley SS Steve Cartmill SS Schomburg Moonflowers and Mary Visiting Yokel Wallace West SS Stories, August, 1943 Listen, Children, Listen -from Thrilling Wonder Richard Ashby SS Colin G. Jameson Sr. &Jr. SS ? Vertigo Hook, The Corollary Effect, The Date of Publication. 2083 A.D, William Morrison SS (July listing continues next page) (October/November listing continues next page) ______DESTINY______17 16 DESTINT FUTURE SCIENCE FICTION FANTASTIC UNIVERSE SCIENCE FICTION (January conclusion) (October/November conclusion) In the Beginning Damon Knight NV Orban Undoing of Carney Jimmy, The Dal Stivens SS Incident in lopa Richard Wilson SS Luros French Way, The Curtis W. Casewit SS Some Kinds of Life Richard Phillipps SS March (18) Milton Luros 3-6 Whispering Gallery, The William F. Temple SS ...And the Truth Shall Make You Free Everybody Knows Joe C. M. Kornbluth SS Clifford D. Simak NV Beecham 4.525t +++++ ++ ++ A. Bertram Chandler NV Courier of Chaos Poul Anderson NV Orban Cold War Harry Warner, Jr. NV Orban FANTASY MAGAZINE (FANTASY FICTION MAGAZINE) ♦Moon is Death, The Raymond F. Jones SS Murphy Romance H. B. Fyfe SS Luros Hannes Bok 1-1 February (1) Big Man With the Girls, A James MacCreigh & Judith Merril Robert E. Howard NV Orban Black Stranger, The SS Luros (Manuscript edited by L. Sprague de Camp) Too Gloomy For Private Pushkin Richard Deming SS Freas May (19) A. Leslie Ross 4-1 Demons, The Robert Sheckley SS Ebel ♦Ecological Onslaught Jack Vance NV Orban Ashtaru the Terrible Poul Anderson NV Emsh Liberation of Earth William Tenn SS Orban Feeding Time Finn O’Donnevan SS Berwin Tenth - Level Enigma Alfred Machado, Jr. SS Murphy Night Shift, The Frank M. Robinson SS Smith Judas of the Spaceways Walter Kubilius SS Beecham Dragon Fires Steve Frazee NV Smith World is Yours, The Harry Warner, Jr. NV Beecham Get The Behind Me, Clio Lester Del Rey A Luros ? FANTASY FICTION (Title Change) June (2) Hannes Bok 1-2 July (20) trimmed edges Milton Luros 4-2 Wall of Serpents, The L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt Graveyard Gordon R. Dickson NV Orban NV Orban Four Hundred Blackbirds Jack Vance NV Luros Weeblies, The Algis Budrys SS Freas ♦Aeropause, The Charles Dye SS Luros Emissary Charles E. Fritch SS Eberle Strike Richard Wilson SS Murphy Samsi Peter Coccagna SS Smith Road to Rome David Grinnell SS NONE Rachaela Poul Anderson NV Ebel Martian Ritual Philip Latham SS Murphy Cookie Lady, The Philip K. Dick SS Beecham When or When ? Katherine MacLean SS Murphy Sylvia Peter Phillips SS Freas Utopias in Contrast Robert A. Madle A NONE John Wyndham SS Smith More Spinned Against September (21) Milton Luros 4-3 August (J) Hannes Bok 1-3 Dust Thou Art Kris Neville NV Sibley ”So Sweet as Magic...” Bruce Elliott NV Ebel To Save A World Irving E. Cox, Jr. NV Orban Out in the Garden Philip K. Dick SS Freas Freedom of the Press Harry Warner, Jr. SS Beecham Much Ado About Plenty Charles E. Fritch SS Tyler ♦Stand Watch in the Sky Algis Budrys SS Luros Frost-Giant’s Daughter, The Robert E. Howard SS NONE Double-Talk Charles Dye SS Luros (Manuscript edited by L. Sprague de Camp) Please to Remember Mack Reynolds SS Luros Stray From Cathay, A John Wyndham SS Eberle Anyone Here Seen Herbie Green? Robert K. Ottum SS Orban Koenigshaufen’s Curve H. B. Fyfe SS Smith Ixtl Igo, Son! Raymond E. Banks SS Luros Foxy’s Hollow Leah Bodine Drake SS Smith Phantom Phoenicians, The L. Sprague de Camp A NONE Laurence Manning SS NONE Mr. Mottle Goes Pout November (22) Alex Schomburg 4-4 SS Tyler Other Ones, The David Alexander ♦Ultimatum! Robert Sheckley SS Orban SS NONE Non D’un Norn Randall Garrett New Weapon Richard Wilson SS Beecham November (4) Hannes Bok 1-4 Counter-Irritant Gordon R. Dickson SS Louros Web of the Worlds Harry Harrison & Katherine MacLean Comeback Philip Latham SS Murphy N Ebel Countercheck. Charles V. de Vet______1 i?Y f Beecham Nothing to It William S. Corwin SS NONE Schizoid Creator Clark Ashton Smith SS Sussman GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION SS Berwin Medicine Dancer Bill Brown January (28) Emsh 5-4 NV Smith Capital Expenditure Fletcher Pratt ♦Defenders, The Philip K. Dick NV Emsh SS Krenkel De Demon- Natur- Wesley Barefoot Teething Ring James Causey SS Francis SS Krenkel Stronger Spell, The L. Sprague de Camp Life Sentence James McConnell SS Francis SS NONE Apprentice Sorcerer, The Stephen Arr Inhabited, The Richard Wilson SS Ashman PUBLICATION SUSPENDED Prott Margaret St. Clair SS Fay Ring Around the Sun (2) Clifford D. Simak SR Sibley FUTURE SCIENCE FICTION February (29) 5-5 January (17) Milton Luros 3-5 COVER: Spaceship departure Mel Hunter Time Stops Today John Wyndham NV Orban Four in One Damon Knight NV Ashman ♦Testament of Andros James Blish NV Luros Protective Mimicry Algis Budrys SS Wilier Compleat Collector, The H. B. Fyfe SS Orban Saucer of Loneliness Theodore Sturgeon SS Beecham Minority Decision Bruce Walton SS Luros Watchbird Robert Sheckley NV Emsh Hypnotism: Fact Vs. Fiction Leo Louis Martello A Luros Know Thy Neighbor Elisabeth R. Lewis SS Beecham (January listing continues next page) Ring Around the Sun (3 concl.) Clifford D. Simak SR Sibley 18 DESTINY DESTINT 19 GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION (October conclusion) March (30) Camerage 5-6 Model of a Judge, The William Morrison SS Burchard *01d Die Rich, The H. L. Gold NA Ashman Carnivore, The G. A. Morris SS Burchard Games Katherine MacLean SS Ashman Origins of Galactic Etiquette Edward Wellen (humor) SS Stone Student Body F. L. Wallace NV Ashman With A Vengeance J. B. Woodley SS Knoth Secret of the House H, H. Holmes SS Emsh (EAE) At The Post H. L. Gold NV Vidmer Drop, The John Christopher SS Emsh Horse Trader Poul Anderson NV Emsh (EAE) Nov ember (38) 7-2 COVER: Plotting Room of Earth
SCIENCE--FANTASY (British) SCIENCE FICTION PLUS (Suspended) Spring (6) Gerard A. Quinn 2-6 March (1) Alex Schomburg 1-1 ♦Volunteers, The J, T. M’Intosh NV Quinn Impact of science fiction on world progress Mr, Kowtshook John Christopher SS Hunter Hugo Gernsback A NONE Confessional E. C. Tubb SS Quinn Exploration of Mars Hugo Gernsback NV Paul Traders’ Planet Francis G. Rayer SS NONE -from QUIP, December, 1949, Mr. Gernsback*s Christmas Card One in Every Port Richard Lawrence SS Hunter flq.odye John Scott Campbell SS O’Reilly Insurance Policy Lan Wright SS Hunter Biological Revolt, The Philip Jose Farmer SS Paul Time to go Home J, F. Burke SS Clothier Time Cylinder, The Eando Binder SS Cooper Rapid Wonder Plants Gustav Albrecht fake-A Photos-trick SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES -from Scientific Monthly, October, 1952 and December, 1952 February (2) Earle Bergey 1-2 Other Side of Zero, The Donald H. Menzel NV Kollman ♦Cosmatomic Flyer (Gernsback) Greno Gashbuck SS Hornstein Farewell to the Lotos A, Bertram Chandler NV Orban Evolution of the Spaceship, The Leslie R. Shepherd & A. V. Cleaver Peacemaker Alan E. Nourse SS Ebel A Photos Spaceman’s Luck George 0, Smith SS Ebel BACK COVER: The spirit of science fiction — Paul & Tina It Ool Dependz L. Sprague de Camp A NONE Forgotten Danger William Morrison SS Freas April (2) Alex Schomburg 1-2 Come Into My Parlor Charles E. Fritch SS Orban Pseudo Science-Fiction Hugo Gernsback A NONE Final Voyage George Whitley NV Ebel Captive Asteroid Raymond Z. Gallun NV O’Reilly Retrograde Evolution Clifford D. Simak SS Landau March (?) Emsh 1-3 World War III — In Retrospect Hugo Gernsback A Paul Police Your Planet (1) Erik Van Lhin SR Orban -from Newspeek, December, 19501 Mr. Gernsback’s Christmas Card Recessional Algis Budrys SS Ebel Throwback in Time Frank Belknap Long SS Kollman Earthman’s Choice Roger Dee SS Bryan Ultimate City, The Richard Tooker SS O’Reilly Judgment Day Chad Oliver NV Berwin ♦Interstellar Flight Leslie R. Shepherd A Paul Ten to the Stars Raymond Z. Gallun NV Emsh Radio Brain, The (Gernsback) Gus N. Habergock VG Landau May (4) Van Dbngen 1-4 -from Digest of Digests, December, 1946, Mr. Gernsback’s Christmas Card Other Cheek, The Theodore R. Cogswell NV Ebel Once Around the Solar System Forrest J, Ackerman A Dollens What Goes Up Robert Sheckley SS Beecham BACK COVER: Science fiction views the cosmos — Paul & Tina This is the PSFS Robert A, Madle A NONE On Streets of Gold Irving E. Cox, Jr. NV Freas May (3) Frank R. Paul 1-3 Science Fiction Industry, The Hugo Gernsback A NONE Survivors Richard K. Snodgrass SS Eberle Death of a Sensitive Harry Bates NV Landau Rocket Pistol, The Robert D. Sampson SS Berwin Police Your Planet (2) Erik Van Lhin SR Orban ♦Future Space Suits Donald H. Menzel A Paul Cosmic Blinker, The Eando Binder SS Paul July (5) Alex Schomburg 1-5 Proxy Head, The Robert Bloch SS Hornstein Legacy From Mars Raymond Z. Gallun NV Eberle Intelligence Test Harry Walton SS Augenbraun Semantic Courtship Irving E. Cox, Jr. SS Smith Worlds in Balance F. L. Wallace NV Alwan&O’Reilly Nest, The Poul Anderson NV Ebel Electronic Baby, The(Gernsback) Grego Banshuck A Paul League of Left-Handed Men, The Russell Branch SS Smith -from Digest of Digests, December, 1946, Mr. Gernsback’s Christmas Card Long Life to you, Albert! William Morrison SS Freas World At Bay, The Forrest J. Ackerman A Photos Police Your Planet (3) Erik Van Lhin SR Orban BACK COVER: Time is the fourth dimension — Paul & Tina September (6) Van Dongen 1-6 June (4) Alex Schomburg 1-4 Final Answer, The M. C. Pease NV Ebel Skepticism in Science Fiction Hugo Gernsback A NONE What is Doubt? Richard Snodgrass SS Dreany Nightmare Planet Murray Leinster NV O’Reilly Meddlers, The C. M. Kornbluth VG NONE Dimensional Terror, The Harry Walton SS Cooper Venusian, The Irving E. Cox, Jr. SS Smith Incident in Space Lawrence E. Larkey VG Paul This is the ESFA Sam Moskowitz A NONE ♦Saturn — Queen of the Sky Isabell M. Lewis A Paul Closed Circuit Robert Sheckley SS Berwin Spiral Intelligence, The Frank Belknap Long SS Hornstein Police Your Planet (4 concl.) Erik Van Lhin SR Orban World in 2046, The: The Next Hundred Years of Atomics Paul December (7) Alex Schomburg 2-1 -from TAME, December, 1945 Hugo Gernsback A Landau Syndic, The (1) C. M. Kornbluth SR Sussman Stolen Minute, The (1) Pierre Devaux & H. G. Viot SR -from the book, Doubleday & Co., 1953 (Translated from the French by Sabine & Leonard J. Wang.) (December listing continues next page) (June listing continues next page) 32______DESTINY______*11 DESTINY 33 - SCIENCE FICTION PLUS (Suspended-) SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY (June conclusion) August (10) A. Leslie Ross 2-4 Science Fiction Dime Novels unsigned A Photos Dreadful Therapy Bryce Walton NV Orban BACK COVER: Science fiction exp:Lores the future — Paul & Tina Common Time James Blish SS Beecham Randall Garrett NV Beecham August (5) (LOGO CHANGE) ♦Characteristics: Unusual 1-5 Mack Reynolds SS Luros Front* and Back# COVERS: Frank R. Paul Advice From Tomorrow , The Tom Clare son A NONE Science Fiction Semantics Hugo Gernsback A NONE Evolution of Science Fiction, Milton Lesser SS Luros Spacebread Generations Clifford D. Simak NV O’Reilly Halt the Blue Star’s Rising ♦#End of the Moon, The Gustav Albrecht, Frank R. Paul & Donald H. Menzel November (11) Jack Coggins 2-5 A Paul Irrationals, The Milton Lesser NV Sibley Ultimate Life Albert dePina & Henry Hasse SS Hornstein Architect of Chaos John Danelaw SS Murphy Hands Across Space Chad Oliver SS Cooper Mercury Bill and the Amorous Hunk Charles A. Stearns SS Luros Stolen Minute, The (2 concl.) Pierre DeVaux & H. G. Viot SR Landau Curtain in the Sky Charles Dye SS Luros (See —— 1—4) Myth-Makers, The Bryce Walton SS Orban War of the Worlds, The unsigned A Photos SCIENCE FICTION STORIES October (6) Frank R. Paul 1-6 Mighty Mite, The Hugo Gernsback A NONE Undated (1) Alex Schomburg 1-1 Celestial Brake, The Thomas Calvert McClary NV Paul Sentiment, Inc, Poul Anderson SS unsigned Freedom of the Race Anne McCaffrey VG Poulton Way of Decision, The M. C. Pease SS Orban *Our Atomic Sun Donald H. Menzel A Tina Comet’s Burial Raymond Z. Gallun SS unsigned Operation: Gravity Jack Williamson SS Hornstein Slizzers, The Jerome Bixby SS Orban Postscript Eric Frank Russell SS Hornstein Ask a Foolish Question Robert Sheckley SS unsigned Worlds Within Worlds Roger Dee SS O’Reilly Riya’s Foundling Algis Budrys SS unsigned Strange Compulsion Philip Jose Farmer NV Finlay Nine Men in Time Noel Loomis SS unsigned BACK COVER: The elements of science fiction — Paul & Tina By Earthlight Bryce Walton SS unsigned Natives, The Katherine MacLean VG NONE Dec ember (7) 1-7 Eyes Have it, The - Philip K. Dick VG NONE Frank R. Paul Front* and Back# COVERS: BACK COVER: E = MC ??Frank R, Paul?? Status of Science Fiction Hugo Gernsback A NONE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++HF++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Trans-Human, The Murray Leinster SS Finlay SCIENCE STORIES Intelligence Factor Corwin F. Stickney VG Lawrence Planted! Frank M. Robinson SS Lawrence October (1) Hannes Bok 1-1 Bitter End Eric Frank Russell SS Lawrence People Who Write Science Stories, The ♦Misfit Michael Fischer VG Poulton Jack Williamson A Photo Vampirate, The James H. Schmitz SS Hornstein ♦Hocus-Pocus Universe Jack Williamson NV Bok Operation Switch Norman Arkawy & Stanley Henig Wise Guy R. J. McGregor SS Becker VG Poulton Flight To Utopia Jan Tourneau SS Hornstein Space Salesman J. P. Phillips SS Lawrence Battle in the Sky Robert Moore Williams NV St. John #Extra-Terrestrial Communication Leslie R. Shepherd A Paul Pariah Rog Phillips SS Hornstein Triggered Dimension, The Harry Bates NV Finlay People Who Write Science Stories, The Science Fiction Around the World unsigned A Photos Robert Moore Williams A Photo PUBLICATION SUSPENDED December (2) Virgil Finlay 1-2 People Who Write Science Stories, The SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY Edward Wellen A Photo ♦Potential Zero John Bloodstone NV Finlay F eb ruary (8) A. Leslie Ross (1-2 in error 2-2) Root of Evil Edward Wellen SS Becker Green Thumb, The Poul Anderson SS Orban Bridge, The S• J• Byrne NV Hornstein Four Commandments, The Robert Abernathy SS Luros Quarterback Sneak T. P. Caravan SS Hornstein Dugal was a Spaceman Joe Gibson NV Orban She Was Sitting in the Dark Richard Dorot NV Hornstein ♦Escape Valve Charles Dye NV Orban Optical Illusion Mack Reynolds SS Becker Little Knowledge, A Judith Merril SS Luros Great Charlatans, The L. Sprague de Camp A unsigned SPACE SCIENCE FICTION (Suspended) Aristotle John Christopher SS Luros Shoo Fly W, Malcolm White SS Luros February (4) Henry Ebel 1-4 ♦Ullr Uprising (1) H. Beam Piper SR Orban May (9) Milton Luros 2-3 Hunters, The William Morrison SS Van Dongen ♦World She Wanted, The Philip K. Dick SS Luros Solution Unknown Milton A. Rothman A NOME Intermission Time Raymond F. Jones NV Orban Exile H. B. Fyfe SS Emsh She Called Me Frankie Robert K, Ottum SS Beecham Relativity John Christopher SS Emsh Lifework Robert Abernathy NV Orban Security Poul Anderson NV Ebel Mud Puppy, The William C. Bailey NV Beecham Time Goes to Now Charles Dye SS Luros March (5) Hannes Bok 1-5 Visitors, The C. H. Liddell SS Murphy Breaking Point James E. Gunn NV Ebel Edgar Allen Poe — Ancestor Robert A. Madle A Luros Stop Look and Dig George 0, Smith SS Smith Golden Mirage, The L. Sprague de Camp A Murphy (March listing continues next page) 34 DESTINY e. DESTINY 35 SPACE SCIENCE FICTION (Suspended) STARTLING STORIES (March conclusion) January (84) Alex Schomburg 28-3 Worshippers, The Damon Knight NV Emsh ♦Double Meaning Damon Knight N Finlay Business of Science, The Milton A. Rothman A NONE Overdrive Murray Leinster NV Emsh Divinity William Morrison SS Freas Boy With Five Fingers, The James E. Gunn SS Schomburg Ullr Uprising (2 conclusion) H. Beam Piper SR Orban My Old Venusian Kendell Foster Crossen SS Orban May (6) Ebel 1-6 No Charge to the Membership Roger Dee SS Dreany ♦Cue for Quiet (1) T. L. Sherred SR Orban Button, Button Isaac Asimov SS Orban Adventurer, The C. Me Kornbluth SS Freas Who's Cribbing? Jack Lewis SS Schomburg Poulton Instant of Decision Randall Garrett NV Ebel Three-Legged Joe Jack Vance SS All That Goes Up Kirby Brooks SS Smith February (83)(Trimmed edges) Emsh 29-1 Second Variety Philip K, Dick NV Ebel Troubled Star George 0. Smith N Finlay July (?) Van Dongen 2-1 Potemkin Village Fletcher Pratt NV Finlay ♦Let ’em Breathe Space! Lester del Rey N Eberle Monkey’s Fingers, The Isaac Asimov SS Emsh Explosion Delayed William Vine SS Freas Definition Damon Knight SS Dreany Infinite Intruder Alan E. Nourse NV Smith Sestina of the Space Rocket Philip Jose Farmer V Schomberg Collectivum Mike Lewis SS Smith Can Mechanical Brains Have Consciousness Cue for Quiet (2 conclusion) Te L. Sherred SR Orban Gotthard Gunther A Photos September (8) Civiletti 2-2 March (86) Walter Popp 29-2 Variable Man, The Philip K, Dick N Ebel Centaurus Sam Merwin, Jr. N Schomburg Hour of Battle, The Robert Sheckley SS Krenkel Gingerbread House, The Joseph Slotkin SS Poulton Decision Frank Me Robinson SS Smith Soul of the Oisuta, The Reginald Bretnor SS Schomburg Escape, The (1) Poul Anderson SR Orban Outsight Colin G. Jameson^r. & Jr. SS Poulton Shore of Tomorrow, The Chad Oliver NV Finlay PUBLICATION SUSPENDED (2nd half of "The Escape" remains unpublished,) Stepping Stone Charles F. Ksanda SS Emsh Ambassador From the 21st Century, The SPACE STORIES (Suspended) Harry J. Shay SS Murphy ? February Q) Emsh 1-3 April (87) Emsh 29-3 ♦Big Jump, The Leigh Brackett NV Finlay ♦Halos, Inc. Kendell Foster Crossen N Schomburg Three Lines of Old Martian Henry Hasse SS Dreany Earth is the Evening Star Robert Sherman Townes SS Beecham Bleak and Barren Land, The Gordon R. Dickson NV Schomburg Threshold Robert Donald Locke SS Emsh Coming Home John Re Marshall SS Orban Fulfillment Ross Rocklynne NV Emsh Even the Bright Gods Must Die De W, Barefoot SS Emsh Distortion Pattern Sam Merwin, Jr, SS Orban April (4) Walter Popp 2-1 Clockwork Leslie Bigelow SS Emsh Gears of Time, The William Morrison NV Emsh Lila Peter Phillips SS Poulton Klugmeister Marshall Zaslove SS Schomburg Rubberneck Richard Barr & Wallace West SS Emsh Satyr Strategem, The Charles Foster SS Orban Faraway Planets Willy Ley A ? Milk Run Fox B, Holden SS Orban May (88) Walter Popp 30-1 Expedition to Earth Robert Zacks SS Poulton Conditioned Captain, The Fletcher Pratt N Finlay June (3) Emsh 2-2 Immovable Object, The Leslie Bigelow SS Poulton ? ♦Dark Side of the Moon, The Sam Merwin, Jr. NV Emsh Mating Time Joseph Shallit SS Duran Affair of State Charles A. Stearns SS Poulton We Breathe For You Noel Loomis NV Emsh Cyanided Man, The Noel M. Loomis NV Schomburg Three, The Gordon R. Dickson SS Murphy Enemy, Time, The Roger Dee SS Emsh Space Stations for Free R. S. Richardson A Schomburg Red Alert Charles Foster SS Emsh June (8_£) Emsh 30-2 PUBLICATION SUSPENDED ♦Moth and Rust Philip Jose Farmer N Finlay Imperfection Leslie Waltham SS Emsh SPACEWAY: ;Stories of the Future Black Deep Thou Wingest, The Robert F. Young SS Emsh Here Lie We Fox B. Holden NV Finlay December (1) Mel Hunter 1-1 Spaceways to Venus Charles Eric Maine NV Hunter August (90) Walter Popp 50-3 Glad Season, The Gene Hunter NV Dollens Journey to Misenum Sam Merwin, Jr. N Poulton Slaves of the System J. T. Oliver SS Walter Runaway Tricycle, The Ralph Sloan SS Canday Re-Entrant Clyde Beck SS NONE Wages of Synergy, The Theodore Sturgeon NV Emsh Frederick Atlantis Hallam SS NONE Never Tempt the Devil William Ratigan SS unsigned Dominant Species E. Everett Evans SS Walter Last Spring, The George H. Smith SS unsigned Revolt of the Scarlet Lunes,The Stanton A. Cobletz SS Walter ? Quantum Relativity A. Kulik V NONE ’’Now You See Them—” Gregory Francis SS NONE October (91) Alex Schomburg 31-1 Osilans, The (1) Arthur J. Burks SR Walter White Windows, The Sam Merwin, Jr. N Finlay Unforgiven, The Edmond Hamilton SS Lawrence Out of the Well Tom McMorrow, Jr. SS Connell Overload Ed M, Clinton, Jr. NV Finlay (October listing continues next page) 36 DESTINY #11 DESTINY 37 STARTLING STORIES TOPS IN SCIENCE FICTION (October concluded) Spring (1) (25# pulp) Lydenfrost or Freas 1-1 Jezebel, The Murray Leinster SS Orban Citadel of Lost Ships Leigh Brackett NV Freas Perhaps A, Kulik V NONE -from Planet Stories, March, 1943 Last Martian, The Raymond Van Houten SS Freas THRILLING WONDER STORIES -from Planet Stories, Spring, 1942 Castaways of Eros Nelson Bond NV Freas February (180) Jack Coggins 41-3 -from Planet Stories, Winter, 1943 ♦Virgin of Zes'h, The L, Sprague de Camp NV Luros First Man on the Moon, The Alfred Coppel SS Vestal Dark Nuptial Robert Donald Locke SS Poulton -from Planet Stories, Spring, 1950 Unreliable Perfumist, The Margaret St, Clair SS Poulton Task to Lahri Ross Rocklynne SS Freas Star of Wonder Julian C, May SS Orban -from Planet Stories, Summer, 1942 Assignment to Aldebaran Kendell Foster Crossen NV Schomburg Million Year Picnic, The Ray Bradbury SS Lydenfrost ? April (181) Jack Coggins 42-1 -from Planet Stories, Summer, 1946 Turncoat Damon Knight NV Poulton Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears, The Keith Bennett NV Pre z io Trouble at the Training Table Lee Priestley SS Schomburg -from Planet Stories, Spring, 1950 Robert Evan Hunter SS Poulton Black Friar of the Flame Isaac Asimov NV Paul Mother Philip Jose Farmer NV Orban ? -from Planet Stories, Spring, 1942 Delirium on Deneb Rolf Martell SS Schomburg Fall (2) (35# digest) Frank Kelly Freas 1-2 Diploids, The Katherine MacLean NV Finlay ♦Lorelei of the Red Mist Ray Bradbury & Leigh Brackett Oasis Ralph Sloan SS Emsh -from Planet Stories, Summer, 1946 (NV?) N Freas June (182) Walter Popp 42-2 And the Gods Laughed Frederic Brown SS Emsh ♦Captive Audience (Sequal to ’’The Bird of Time”) -from Planet Stories, Spring, 1944 Wallace West N Finlay Grifters* Asteroid Harold C. Fosse SS Emsh Upon the Stair J. W, Groves SS Poulton ? -from Planet Stories, 1May, 1943 Marginal Error Kris Neville SS Finlay Sword of Johnny Damokles,>, The— Hugh Frazier Parker NV Freas Conquest of Janes, The R, J, McGregor NV Schomburg -from Planet Stories, March, 1943 (SS?) Prophet, The John Christopher SS Dre any Saboteur of Space Robert Abernathy NV Emsh -from New Worlds Science Fiction, March, 1953 -from Planet Stories, Spring, 1944 (SS?) Life Game, The Chad Oliver NV Poulton PUBLICATION SUSPENDED Ship Was a Robot, The Murray Leinster SS Emsh August (18^) Jack Coggins 42-3 TWO COMPLETE SCIENCE-ADVENTURE BOOKS Whistle Stop in Space Kendell Foster Crossen N Finlay Spring (8) (Jan./March) Frank Kelly Freas 1-8 Booby Prize George 0, Smith NV unsigned Sargasso of Lost Cities James Blish N Vestal Arbiter Sam Merwin, Jr, NV Schomburg Survivor of Mars Vargo Statten N Vestal Fishing Season Robert Sheckley SfJ, unsigned Sibling Leslie Waltham SS Finlay Summer (9) (Apr,/June) Frank Kelly Freas 1-9 Belly of Gor Jeetl, The Charles A. Stearns SS Emsh Wanton of Argus, The Kilian Houston Brunner N Freas Metamorphosis Mike Curry SS Orban Mission to I-larakee Bryan Berry N Freas Politician, The R, J, McGregor SS Orban ? -from Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, #24, 1952 " Aftermath” Green-Eyed Monster J, W, Groves SS Emsh Winter (10) (Oct,/Dec,) Frank Kelly Freas 1-10 Flight Eighteen Paul A. Torak SS unsigned Silent Victory Poul Anderson N Freas Progress Alexander Samalman V NONE Ballroom of the Skies John D, MacDonald N Freas November (184) Walter Popp 43-1 -from the book, Greenberg Publishers, 1953 ♦Transposed Man, The Dwight V, Swain NV Finlay (Announced but unused Space Stories manuscript,) UNIVERSE SCIENCE FICTION Last Dame, The Curt Storm SS Freas June (1) (Bell imprint) Malcolm H, Smith 1-1 Transfer Charles F, Ksanda SS Emsh Constant Reader Robert Bloch SS Becker Mission To Mizar Kendell Foster Crossen NV Schomburg ? World Well Lost, The Theodore Sturgeon SS Mahasm Mr, Heinkle’s Green Thumb Charles A. Stearns SS Poulton ♦Castaway, The Murray Leinster NV unsigned Dr, Lightning Guy DeAngelis SS Poulton Down Will Come the Sky Nelson Bond SS Terry Science A. Kulik V unsigned Bow Down to Them Mark Clifton NV Ruud Muscle Man Frank M, Robinson SS Duur TOBY PRESS NOVELS (Suspended) Stowaway Mack Reynolds NV unsigned End, The Charles E. Fritch SS McCauley it- 1 September (2) Robert Gibson Jones 1-2 SPACE PIRATE, THE Jack Vance Emsh ? (This issue under the Bell imprint, actually Palmer Publications,) -from Startling Stories, November, 1950 ♦Calibrated People, The W. T. Powers NV Becker (Original title: ’’The Five Gold Bands”) Janushek Roger Flint Young SS unsigned PUBLICATION SUSPENDED Breaking of Jerry McCloud, The Gordon R. Dickson SS unsigned Election Campaign William Campbell Gault SS Simmons Up the Mountain or Down Sylvia Jacobs NV Smith Reward for Valor Mark Clifton SS McCauley 38 DESTINY#12 DESTINY 39 UNIVERSE SCIENCE FICTION WEIRD TALES December (J) (Palmer imprint) Mel Hunter & Malcolm Smith 1-3 January (268) Frank Kelly Freas 44-8 Hungry Hercynian,, The L. Sprague de Camp SS Lawrence ♦Once There Was a Little Girl Everil Worrell NV Eberle Everest Isaac Asimov SS Grossman Phantom Soldier at Ticonderoga, The Not in the Books Gene L, Henderson SS Lawrence Dr. Cyrus Macmillan SS Eberle Savages, The George H. Smith SS Eberle I Can’t Wear White Suzanne Pickett SS Finlay Adventure of the Misplaced Hound, The SS Cartier Gloves, The Garnett Radcliffe SS Silvey Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson Werewolf of Ponkert, The H, Warner Munn NV Freas Mr. Peavey’s Tiger Holly Wolcott SS Finlay -from Weird Tales, July, 1925 Seasoned Traveller, The F. L. Wallace SS Mills Wet Straw Richard Matheson SS Napoli Nightsong William T. Powers SS Finlay Red Ghosts in Kentucky Leah Bodine Drake V Humiston On Mars we Trod Eando Binder SS Lawrence ’’Sexton, Sexton, in the Wall" August Derleth SS Finlay ♦Sunbathing in Space (Filler) Bea Mahaffey A NONE Six Feet of Willow Green Carroll F. Michener SS Arfstrom -from Weird Tales, April, 1923 VORTEX SCIENCE FICTION (Suspended) Hand of Death Marjorie Murch Stanley SS Arfstrom Undated (1) Martin 1-1 March (26£) Virgil Finlay 45-1 Love Affair Derfla Leppoc SS Martin ♦Slime Joseph Payne Brennan NV Finlay Tourist on Minotaur Moon Milton Lesser SS Brucker Don Quixote on Market Street Clark Ashton Smith V unsigned Best Man H. E. Verett VG Mirachi Talkie Dolls, The Donald F. Vieweg SS Finlay Sunset for Pawns F. Anton Reeds SS Brucker Caveat Emptor L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt Fair Exchange L. Major Reynolds SS unsigned SS Arfstrom Homecoming Alfred Coppel NV Martin Night Court Mary Elizabeth Counselman SS Eberle Gift, The K. R. Veenstra SS Mirachi In Camera John Ward SS Silvey Stability Lester Del Rey SS Mirachi Raft, The Kirk Shaw SS Eberle Omega Fred Sorrel SS Martin Mrs. Penleath’s Stratagem T. W. Speight SS unsigned Visitor from Kos Harry J, Gardener SS Mirachi Dream Merchant, The Harold Lawlor SS Arfstrom Old Purply-Puss Sylvia Jacobs SS Martin Who Are We? Frances Rogers Lovell V Eberle Last Answer, The Bryce Walton SS Tink Supreme Witch, The Anpleby Terrill SS Finlay Red Chrome Bert Ahearne SS unsigned -from Weird Tales, October, 1.926 Mitr, The Jack Vance SS unsigned Joseph Eberle 45-2 Jhn • ah Ohr E. Everett Evans SS Martin May (270) Leah Bodine Drake SS Eberle Honeymoon, The Charles E. Fritch SS Tink ♦Whisper Water Justin Dowling SS Eberle Good Pilot, The Albert Hernhuter SS NONE Living Eyes, The David Eynon SS Di Giannurio Murmur of Dawn Anna Sinclare SS Mirachi I’ll be Back Donald Wandrei NV Silvey Time Contraption, The Anthony Riker SS Tink Strange Harvest Clark Ashton Smith SS Silvey Dealer’s Choice S« A. Lombino SS Martin Morthylla Corner For Lucia, A August Derleth SS Finlay Undated (2) Martin 1-2 Fog Was Blowing, A Stanton A. Cobletz V Finlay Paper Knife, The Lelon Kohle SS Martin Between Two Dreams Felix Marti Ibanez NV Silvey Unlikelist Thing, The Bruce Fearing VG Martin Vengeance of Kali Mai, The Gatnett Radcliffe SS Arfstrom Granch Male-Left Emmett Herlocker SS Martin Requiem for a Sinner Pauline Booker V C. K. Food for Thought Rice Arden SS Martin Mandrake Adam Hull Shirk SS Finlay Women Only Marion Z. Bradley SS Mirachi -from Weird Tales, July/August, 1923 Shade of Blond James L. Harte SS Mirachi Wife of the Dragon-Fly Paul Ernst SS Di Giannurio Rejects Frank Bristow SS Mirachi -from Weird Tales, February, 1936 Miraculous Lens, The Jack Lewis SS Martin W. H. Silvey 45-3 Sportsmen, The Sylvia Jacobs VG Mirachi July (271)(Last pulp size) David Lewis Eynon SS Eberle Grim Fairy Tale Garen Drussai SS Martin L’Affaire Verenekin August Derleth NV Finlay Time-Killer, The Lelon Kohle SS Martin ♦House in the Valley, The Dorothy Quick V Finlay Ball, The Stephen Arr SS Martin House of Life Richard Matheson NV Eberle Corner, The Thelma D. Hamm SS Martin Slaughter House Glen Malin SS Napoli Weird Catch John Foster 'West SS Martin Source of It, The Lyn Venable SS Di Giannurio Release Joseph Slotkin SS Mirachi Missing Room, The Joseph Payne Brennan SS Eberle One Man War L. Major Reynolds SS Martin On the Elevator Paul Ernst SS Di Giannurio Aunt Liz Gene Hunter SS unclaimed Dread Summons Farmer’s Daughter and the Martian, The -from Weird Tales, November, 1937 Nictzin Dyalis NV Arfstrom Richard Terzian SS Martin Sea Witch, The Venus Gipsy, The C. M. Webster SS Martin -from Weird Tales, December, 1937 Dream Drink Don L, Johnson SS Martin September (272) (First digest) Jon Arfstrom 45-4 Keyhole Marion Z. Bradley SS Martin ♦I Loved Her With My Soul Everil Worrell NV Arfstrom Teacher’s Pet J. T. Oliver SS Martin Watcher Awakes, The Kirk Shaw SS Eberle Closet, The Garen Drussai SS Martin Parthenope Manly Wade Wellman SS Silvey Mercer’s Machine Joseph Slotkin SS Mirachi An Offering to the Moon Clark Ashton Smith SS Finlay Question, The Lucius Daniel SS Martin Dark Things, The Dorothy Quick V unsigned PUBLICATION SUSPENDED (September listing continues next page) ______DESTINY •11 DESTINY 41 WEIRD TALES (September conclusion) Ebony Stick, The August Derleth SS Finlay Devil’s Cabin, The Vance Hoyt SS Napoli MMBOOKSTfW -from Weird Tales, September 1923 Beetle, The Garnett Radcliffe SS Arfstrom Six Merry Farmers Leah Bodine Drake V Eberle AS COMPILED™ by Man Who Walked on Air, The Michael Avallone SS Silvey Tree-Man, The Henry S. Whitehead SS unsigned -from Weird Tales, February/March, 1931, Issue #89 key : (C) = Canadian ill. = illustrated by a. = author (S) = Scottish Pseud. = pseudonym of November (273) Margaret Brundage 45-5 ed. = editor pa = paper-backededition intro. = introduction by Way Station Mary Elizabeth Counselman SS Silvey (B) = British BCE = Book ClubEdition Legs That Walked, The Justin Dowling SS Eberle Red Balloon, The Q. Patrick SS Napoli Abbott, Edwin Abbott (A. Square, Pseud.) Suspicion Harriet Bradfield V E. H. FLATLAND (intro, by Banesh Hoffmann) $2.25 Dover Man Upstairs, The Harry W, Currier NV Silvey a n " ii ” $1.00 pa Dover Black Stone, The Robert E, Howard SS Silvey Ariemaki, George - a. with (see) Leslie, Desmond -from Weird Tales, November, 1931 Addis, Hazel Iris Wilson (Mrs. E. E. Addis) (Hazel Adair & A. J. Heritage, Crying Child, The Dorothea Gibbons SS Bok ? 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Like a balloon that expanded too while will be swept away. It is to much, the great science fiction mag be hoped that the good will benefit azine boom has collapsed* The expan at the expense of the bad* However, DISCRIMINATING sion of magazine science fiction this is not always the case. Before since the end of World War II has undertaking a resume of the 1953-54 been tremendous. New titles and the magazines it is advisable to attempt PEOPLE prefer increased output of the older mag some understanding of the events of azines have doubled the published these crucial years. material in the field. (See table It is easy now, to say that the II and graph II.) 1953 was the peak magazines are in a slump but such THE FAN MAG year for magazine S-F. On a quali observations are mere formalisms; a tative basis, the easily impressed recognition that what is, is. ’’The will say, ’’More titles and more is people do not buy; or they do not sues than any other year.” The pre buy enough”—Only shallow people are ceptive will say, ”How much more?” satisfied to deal so superficially it’s chock full of Whatever may happen in future years, with such interesting events. One let it be stated, 1953 was the year regrets that so many fans miss the enjoyment in which more titles and issues were opportunity to delve into these pro published than in any other year in blems at the various conventions and the history of S-F magazines. conferences with panels and discus OK FANTASY through But the year also was one in which sions by the people most qualified POETRY and HUMOR so many magazines folded and reduced to discuss, analyze and deal with schedules that the upward curve of them. A few of the more commonly output was stopped and put into re proposed explanations for the mag LYRIC - verse. A peak has been passed. The azine slump are given below. Tables 545 N.E. San Rafael course can only be downward. It is, and graphs have been prepared to show ' 77 Portland 12 Oregon and will continue to be, a steady the relationship of 1953 and early descent. 1954 in a quantitive manner to the The effects of the collapse will past history of the science fiction linger for a few years until the new magazines. cycle of advancement can begin. Much to A. ’’The cycle hypothesis” of the trash and some of the worth- 48 DESTINY fl-1 DESTINY 49 Wilson Tucker, speaking in ’’The Science fiction benefited when John magazine market. It is doubtful if allowed even this bending of their History Book”, (Bloomington News W, Campbell could make his writers there is much correlation between a anti-reprint policy. Otherwise the Letter, December, 19'49) summarized write and re-write their stories. regular reader of magazine science magazine might have folded in 1943» the past peaks of science fiction. But the art of re-writing has virtual fiction and patrons of the other as did the other Popular science The definite peaks of 1930, 1940-41 ly become extinct during this boom information media, such as the person fiction magazines. Mary Gnaedinger, ing period. A return to earlier and 1953$ can be seen on Graph I, who sees the movie or television play the editor of Famous Fantastic Mys Notice that these peaks roughly practices is required. and may pick up and possibly even teries, followed a book selection double themselves; from 7 magazines The current magazine readership read an occasional magazine. The principle that still requires expla and 60 issues in 1930, 21 magazines is capable of supporting only a cer worst offenders are the book readers. nation. It remains a mystery to this and 106 issues in 1941 to 44 magazines tain number of titles and issues. A They wait for the magazine stories to writer. A definite fantasy slant and 207 issues in 1953• One may go dozen titles, six monthlies, six bi be sifted out, (usually by an expert came over the magazine and the stories from the sublime to the absurd by monthlies; putting out roughly 100 anthologizer who is sifting out seemed to alternate between the lost- saying that therefore in 1964 there issues a year is probably the current stories from stories that have already race story and the world-destroyed- will be 88 magazines publishing 420 level of stability. Any increase been sifted out by expert editors; by-some-catastrophe, type of story* issues. Whatever the reason for over these figures would represent the science fiction field is loaded In short, the magazine became dull these cycles of expansion and con an unstable condition. On a "common with experts, experts who know little because it became fossilized in its traction, the reader is advised that sense" basis, these figures are and care less.) and put into anthol type of story. They were well-writ this phenomenon is not restricted to "true". While there is no evidence ogies which the book reader borrows ten. H. L. Gold even used Three Go science fiction magazines, to support them directly, it is un from the public library, or gets in Back (FFM, December, 1943) as Galaxy questionably true that contraction B, Economic conditions Science Fiction Novel #15* A pity is needed and if the field refuses exchange for a buck from the Doubleday A science fiction magazine is a Gnaedinger never used The World to do this by itself—it will suffer Book Club. commercial product. It is sold in There is a great potential audience Below, byS. Fowler Wright, which was other 1953*s. The magazines which the market place. It is subject to among the young for science fiction, suggested to her numerous times over the same laws; the same rewards and can hold out the longest should reap the years. the benefits of the present con and it is a shame that only material penalties as any other product. From of a degraded and debased form reaches When readers no longer possess the original "monopoly" of the field traction. enthusiasm for a magazine, when it When a potential buyer is looking them at the present time. Science by a small number of magazines, (i.e. fiction in its "juvenile" forms is becomes merely a habit like the daily for magazine "A" and can no longer the "golden age of Astounding, 1939- available in such quantity to the cup of coffee, the formative, adven 43”) science fiction entered a free find it, he may be tempted to buy turous period is over, and a steady magazine "B". Thus magazine "B" will young that by the time they get to a market in 1949-50* Other publishers reasoning age (perhaps ten or so) state of readership gain-loss has entered the field seeking, as do all gain readers. It is not a case of been obtained. All magazines go "B" being increased by the total of they have reached their saturation publishers, profits. The over-all point and do not go on to magazines, through this phase. The only differ quality of the stories improved as "A"»s circulation but rather a new ences being in the length of this circulation for "B" of "B" plus a which represent the highest develop the ordinary techniques of writing ment of science fiction. Few writers phase to the previous, which might be were applied to most of the magazines part of "A". Remember that some of termed the "adolescence" compared to "A"*s readers may already read "B" or have followed the lead of Robert A. by most of the editors. But the Heinlein and written material for the "steady" or "maturity" phase. "sparkling" and "unique" story became that some of "A'”s readers simply do young people that was not written E. Literary considerations a rarity as the editors, and writers not care for magazine "B", down or pretentiously silly. The success or failure of a mag tended toward one common high level Most of the surviving magazines azine must fall on its content s . of mediocrity. The end result was, have been hoping for such an occurance D. The hypothesis of "organic decay" Regardless of how physically attrac of course, twenty magazines; iden to save them. If their costs can be Facetiously speaking, magazine tive it may be, regardless of the tical in format, content and person reduced to a profit non-loss, or science fiction has passed from a ality. even smaller loss figure they can precocious childhood to a premature efficiency of its distributor, neat ness, departments, illustrations, It is a wonder that all the mag outlast the present decline in mag senility, without ever having passed all these may or may not be desirable azines haven’t gone bankrupt. The azine science fiction. through any sort of maturity. Mag but the only important thing that the magazines have literally pushed each Some means of cost per issue re azines may be considered analogous reader primarily worries about are other off the stands. Newsstands are duction should be sought, rather than to living entities, possessing their the stories. limited in their display space. In to burden the purchaser with increas childhoods, adolescences, adulthoods, To think that science fiction has earlier years, when the digest size ed prices of 550 or 500* For a 350 old age and death. Although many come so far, and done so little. The magazine was a relative novelty (in magazine to compete with 250 or 350 magazines might be used as examples, blame must be laid directly on the science fiction) it received pre pocket books can only result in it may be of value to take the case editors and the writers. Not happy ferential (front cover) display, while victory for the pocket books. The of Famous Fantastic Mysteries. When with the unique qualities which are, the pulp magazines in many cases pocket books are given preferential it first appeared, in mid-1939* it and remain, the property of "true" received only spine display. Now choices in subject matter, appearance was a joy to behold. Every issue science fiction, the writers attempted with the common-place digest size and display space, nor is there any was filled with enthusiasm, change- need for a strict publishing schedule. to infuse the same paralysis on S-F magazine, it may be that a trend to of-plans; and the reader dogged the that has so destroyed the creativity the larger size (i.e. Science Fiction The magazines will rue the day they newsstand waiting for the next issue of the detective and western story. +) is indicated. It is a certainty allowed their material to appear in to appear. It used the straight forward simple action Munsey stories "Mood Pieces", clever little vignet that the day of the pulp magazine is these "paperbacks". It is silly to tes, deliberately obscure avant-garde over. (See table III.) subsidize a competitor. of Argosy and All-Story. It was a writing, have all combined to drive The S-F field is limited as to neat appearing and well illustrated C. The "phenomenon of super saturation" the hard-core S-F reader back to H. the amount of talent it contains. magazine. (As indeed it remained to When books, movies and television F. Wells and Jules Verne, The writers have had it easy the last the end.) Popular Publications took began to use science fiction in more The emphasis was properly shifted few years, this condition will not over the magazine in 1943 and used a than a casual way, it was believed by the authors of the late *30s and repeat itself for some time to come. policy of book reprints only. The by some that this would increase the reader may be greatful that Popular early *40s, from the mechanics of 50 DESTINY #11 DESTINY 51 science to the mechanics of fiction. "The second type has not much more constantly repeating in some eternal work, many talented youngsters. It This was new and praiseworthy in 1939 literary merit but is more original. frenzy that "science fiction is en may be noted that the Soviet Union or 1942. Today the technique is It seems to be chiefly written by men tertainment", "Science Fiction Is is increasing its output of science rather tired. To write a slick, (I have yet to notice a woman in this Entertainment", "SCIENCE FICTION IS fiction. One may conjecture that smooth competent story is an achieve field) who have at least a smattering ENTERTAINMENT"!! A great mistake is this is not being done for "enter ment. But why not emphasize theme of scientific and technical knowledge being made if so many fail to realize tainment" but as a direct state instead of technique? It cannot be and a vast enthusiasm for inventions that science fiction is a powerful policy. The old Gernsback policy of put too strongly that technique with and gadgets. They are the same men weapon of propaganda and can, by "sugar-coated-science" may have been out theme is a dead and sterile who write articles telling us how proper usage, draw into scientific misapplied but it was not mistaken. thing. Consider the characterless fortunate we are to be living in this THE 1953-1954 UNITED STATES SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES: nature of the average or even above age of scientific marvels, and how average S-F story. It has neither in the near future we shall find our 1. AMAZING STORIES: This, the oldest science fiction magazine, was com style nor emotion. It portrays the selves in a wonderland of labor- pletely revamped in 1953. Unhappily for it, the changes did not bring existence of the human animal in a saving devices, surrounded by atten about the circulation, increase hoped for by Ziff-Davis. Its progress non-political, non-religious, non tive robots. They are the cybernetics during the year was one of steady retreat. With the March.issue, the thinking, non-feeling vacuum. It is public relations team. (Perhaps old pulp format was discarded and the April/May issue was in the slick, truly a dream world of fantasy filled some of them are already robots.) So smooth Fantastic format. The price was increased to 350 for 160 pages with the trivial delusions of hacks. their stories of the year 2027 and and two color interior illustrations. This soon changed to 144 pages Arthur Koestler in his article, 2148 are crammed with the most aston and no color interiors. There was a further reduction to 130 pages. ’’The Boredom of Fantasy" (Harper1 s ishing devices, with everybody living The high grade paper was exchanged for pulp stock. The price remained Bazaar, August, 1953) writes, "Our a push-button life on this and at 350. Clearly Howard Browne is in trouble. The art portfolios were imagination is limited; we cannot various other planets. But these discarded and comments from the readers reinstated, along with a word project ourselves into the distant enthusiast cannot communicate their rate cut to .010 for the authors. Rumor has it that the magazine will future anymore than into the distant enthusiasm in such stories. Indeed, return to pulp format. past...there is no art-only a thrill an air of boredom creeps in. Their 2. ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION: No extensive changes in 1953 beyond an en of curiosity which soon yields to plastic, electronic, atomic-power largement of the Astounding in the logo and better paper in the body of boredom. The Martian heroes of run cities seem to be inhabited by the magazine. Apparently Campbell is holding on in spite of the cir science fiction may have four eyes, stale ghosts. Rocket ships are culation decline reported by Lyle Kessler. Campbell did a wise thing a green skin—we could not care less. flashing millions of miles from one by discarding what has come to be known as the "Galaxy format" i.e. the We are tickled by them for a few tower to tedium to another. Even stripe down the side of the front cover. Campbell does not have to fol pages; but because they are too inter-planetary wars or a police low. He should lead, as he did 15 years ago. Let lesser men follow. strange to be true, we soon get bored. pursuit that covers half the Milky Astounding is still the most valuable title in the S-F field but it For every culture is an island. It Way bring little zest. The robots, should be remembered that Street and Smith do not look kindly on magaz communicates with other islands but now all over the place, are having ines that lose money. Witness the mass killing of their pulps in 1949. it is only familiar with itself...." the best of it. If, as it appears Astounding is still in the black. Another writer of merit, J. B. at times, they are about to take over, 3. AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER: Another ill-fated Avon period Priestly, writes in an article nothing will be lost.... ical, this one lasted two issues. Had Donald A. Wollheim started this "Thoughts in the Wilderness: They "....The tone and the atmosphere magazine in 1947 the story might very well have been different, but Come From Inner Space", (The New of these new stories are very differ this one came in at the peak and lost. This one claimed an all—original- Statesman and Nation, December 5, ent from those of the early scien material policy, however at least four reprints were used. 1953. Page 712) "..I am no authority tific romances. The spiritual cli 4. BEYOND FANTASY FICTION: Mr. H. L. Gold’s attempt to duplicate the fame, on this stuff, but I have sampled mate has changed. The rocket ships if not the fortune of the old Unknown. It’ll be a good trick if he can enough of it to be able to criticize no longer represent man’s triumphant do it. It is the opinion of this writer that Fantasy does not sell well it without injustice. Roughly it can progress. They merely show him hur in America. be divided into three kinds. The rying at ever-increasing speeds away 5. COSMOS SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY MAGAZINE: This magazine had a long first is bosh consisting of corny from his true life as a spiritual title and a short life. Lasted three issues. Nothing extremely good short stories, on the gangster or being. He is trying to escape from about it, and nothing extremely bad except the illustrations. western pattern, with a few rocket himself...." 6. DYNAMIC SCIENCE FICTION: One of the Lowndes magazines. This pulp cut ships, atomising pistols and myster You may not agree with Mr, back its pages from 132 to 96 and went from bi-monthly to quarterly. ious planets thrown in; they are Priestly; but he does write well. It Folded with the January, 1954 issue. As usual with the Lowndes group of essentially no different from the is interesting to note that both pulps, it attempted to utilize articles about the growth and importance stories we used to read about Chicago, writers use the word boredom. Surely of science fiction. It is a sad commentary on the rest of the magazines Dawson City and Tombstone, Arizona. there have been enough of these down that so few have realized that there is a tradition and a history of If such hack work could arouse thou beat stories in the magazines showing science fiction which can be of great interest to new readers. ght, then we should think what a pity how beastly mankind can be. Try the 7. FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES: The last Popular Publications magazine it is that our idiotic species is upbeat for a change. There is no dealing with fantasy and science fiction folded with its 81st issue shortly proposing to spread its need to be "Pollyannaish" in litera (June, 1953). This and the issue proceeding were not on sale in Chicago. dreary melodramatic doings from here ture but there is less need to gla In its pages have appeared the bulk of A. Merritt, a little of the cream to Sirius. But no thought comes. morize hoodlums and tramps. of the Munsey stories, and a lot of books best left unprinted. It is a This is trade rubbish, like the beads Everyone has his own definition shame that FFM could not continue as it did perform a valuable if limited and Brummagen gauds that the 19th- of science fiction; what it should be service. It will be missed. century traders took with them into and can do. Questions of this nature 8. FANTASTIC: The first Ziff-Davis excursion into the slick high-price the jungle. We can forget this kind, are extremely subjective are are not field has had its troubles of late. Pages cut from 160 to 130. Out though its specimens must far out answerable by direct objective analy with the two color interior, and in with the pulp paper. This magazine number the rest.... sis. Yet very little is served by used non-fantasy material. It can hardly be called a success. There was a logo change with the September/October issue. Solid color covers 52 DESTINY______#11 #11______DESTINY______53 were used but were replaced by pictorial covers. 20. ORBIT SCIENCE FICTION: An undated type of magazine indicating a lack of 9* FANTASTIC ADVENTURES: Ziff-Davis folded this magazine after 128 issues. confidence in itself. Not too bad; not too good. Mediocre. Follows (The listing in Journal of Science Fiction Index is wrong.) There was the 350 digest-size down to the last "T". some talk of combining it with Fantastic, but the amalgamation is invis 21. OTHER WORLDS SCIENCE STORIES: Folded with its 31st issue (July, 1953). ible. It has had a remarkably undistinguished career always remaining It was the first of the 350 magazines. It showed a remarkable improve in the shadow of its companion, Amazing Stories. ment with its last few issues but a news dealer summed it up frankly 10* FANTASTIC STORY MAGAZINE: Went from bi-monthly to quarterly and cut its and truthfully by saying, "The magazine just didn't sell." pages from 144 to 128. It is now on an equal basis with the old Standard 22. PLANET STORIES: Went quarterly with its May, 1954 issue. Reduced its magazines Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories. This reprint pages to 96. It's a relic of a by-gone period of science fiction. magazine must be a sore point at Standard Magazines because Samuel Mines Space opera's last stand. seems to relish the opinion that the "new" stories are so much better 23. ROCKET STORIES: Lasted three issues in 1953. A foolish attempt to com than the "old" stories. Yet the magazine seems to sell. pete with Planet Stories. Another ill-fated offspring of the John 11. FANTASY FICTION: Lester del Key's version of Unknown, 1953 style did Raymond-Lester del Rey brood offering little at a 350 price. not complete the year of its birth. It started out as Fantasy Magazine 24. SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES: The sole surviving member of the John but changed over to Fiction. Editor Harry Harrison completed issue #4. Raymond hacktory. Cutback in 1953 from a monthly to a bi-monthly but Fletcher Pratt was to be the editor starting with issue #5. There has appeared quarterly. A poor imitation of the leaders. been a cloud over the entire string of John Raymond publications regard 25. SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST: The sole 1954 starter to date. Published by ing payments for material, editorial policy etc. The full story remains the same people who put out the defunct Vortex Science Fiction, it is a to be told. banal exposition of an excellent idea. It was extremely slow in showing ■^■2. FANTASTIC UNIVERSE SCIENCE FICTION: A 500 magazine that reduced price up on the newsstands of America as the contents clearly show. The less and pages in 1954. It seems to run through editors at a fast rate: Sam there is of this magazine, the better for science fiction. Merwin, Jr., Dave Cooke, Beatrice Jones and now Leo Margulies have had 26. SCIENCE FICTION PLUS: The noble experiment has failed. Yet although a swing at editing it. Hugo Gernsback's return magazine lasted only 7 issues, its large-size 15. FUTURE SCIENCE FICTION: Changing from a pulp to a digest-size magazine issues points up a few lessons for the field. The material of the first with its June, 1954 issue. Goes from bi-monthly to quarterly and from five issues was simply not of first rank. With bi-monthly publication 25« to 350 at the same time. The circulation decline has hit the pulps and book paper, the magazine began to shape up. NEWS DEALERS WERE GIVE- harder than the digest magazines or at least Lowndes hopes so. Again ING IT THE PROPER DISPLAY. IT WAS GAINING IN CIRCULATION. You can this magazine is more noteworthy for its non-fiction material than its count on the fingers of one hand, the magazines that can say that about fiction. Lowndes tries very hard and manages to succeed with very 1953. It was according to certain information very close to a break meager resources, even point when it went under. One must give Sam Moskowitz "E" for 14. GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION: Galaxy is said to be in the black but it has effort on this one. been a bad year for the field and Gold's magazines have not escaped 27. SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY: Reduced its pages from 132 to 96 in 1953. without scars. Regardless of personal opinions about Gold and his brag The only Lowndes pulp left is rumored to decrease to a bi-annual in 1954. ging ways, there is little doubt that Galaxy is a top notch publication 28. SCIENCE FICTION STORIES: Presumably a Lowndes experiment, this magazine even though the Gold flash of 1950-51 is gone. may be more than a one-shot. 15. GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS: The selection of material for this mag 29. SCIENCE STORIES: Ray Palmer's replacement for Other Worlds did not last azine has been both inept and crude. The stories reprinted are easily long. It showed up in Chicago with its 3rd issue----- It died with its obtainable in a variety of formats. Surely Gold can find better material 4th. Again Palmer is bucking the times. His magazine was not the first to reprint than to use "The Sword of Xota" (Two Complete Science-Adven- to die in 1954. It will not be the last. Another 350, 128 page Digest. ture Books, Summer, 1951) under the brilliant title The Warriors of Dav. 30. SPACE SCIENCE FICTION: Died with its September, 1953 issue (#8). The 16. IF: WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION: James L. Quinn is ~mZ7erick in this serial by Poul Anderson "The Escape" is still uncompleted. Does anyone field. He must.be making money otherwise his changing from bi-monthly care? A typical 35e digest imitator of the leaders. It was the first to monthly is silly. The magazine is a neat and well illustrated one of the Lester del Rey-John Raymond magazines to appear. It was the with fiction of above average interest but not so good as to explain first to fold. Quinn's success. To increase frequency of publication is a mark of 31. SPACE STORIES: Folded with its 5th issue (June, 1953). The folding of success in these times. It will be interesting to watch for changes in this magazine hearlded the decline of the Standard Magazines. This was their expensive four-color wrap-around covers, and interior art plates, an attempt to compete with Planet Stories. Another of the rapidly as well as their NO advertisement policy. dwindling pulps. 17. IMAGINATION: STORIES OF SCIENCE AND FANTASY: William L. HeniH ng stepped 32. SPACEWAY: STORIES OF THE FUTURE: FPCI's attempt to turn the clock back up frequency in 1953. In 1954 he reduced his pages from 160 to 130 with modern dress. The stories are simple but while simplicity is one (April). Hamling is in the best of all possible positions to last out of the Great Virtues; it is not the only Virtue. This magazine is not the decline because he edits his magazine from the basement of his own sold in Chicago. 160 page, 350, bi-monthly magazine. home. His material while not high, is also not low. His stories stay 33. STARTLING STORIES: This writer has had his differences of opinion on the conservative side with a pronounced up-beat tendency. Imagination 34. THRILLING WONDER STORIES: with Samuel Mines. The specific decline of is one of the few magazines to continue departments of interest to the Standard Magazines will be delt with at a later date in an article science fiction fans. devoted solely to that purpose. Sufficient for now, to say that there 18. THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: Easily the leading mag have been many cut-backs in this group during the *53-54 period. From azine in quality if not in sales. (See Table I) The use of illustrat a potential of 31 issues a year in January of 1953, exactly one year ions in the April, 1954 issue seems curious after all these years with later they were putting out 12 issues a year. Other magazines have out them. Rumor has it that this magazine is going bi-monthly in 1954. been hard hit also, so it would be unfair to blame Sam Mines for what One wonders what would happen if they changed their title to The Mag has happened to his magazines. azine, of Science Fiction? 35. TOBY PRESS NOVELS: Only one of these appeared. Intended as competition 19. MYSTIC MAGAZINE: The fictional counterpart of Fate. The first 3 issues to Galaxy Science Fiction Novels, the only issue showed up with The were not available in Chicago, but # 4 appeared here. This magazine Space Pirate by Jack Vance, which is merely "The Five Gold Bands" from should be a big hit in England. Also of interest are the ads in it for Startling Stories, November, 1950. Palmer's other magazines, I seriously suggest you read some of them. 36. TOPS IN SCIENCE FICTION: Reprints from Planet Stories failed to keep M______DESTINY______#11 DESTINY 55 this magazine going. Lasted for two issues in 1953, changing from a 25« THE 1953 ENGLISH LANGUAGE MAGAZINES (TABLE 2 ) pulp to a 350 digest size magazine for its second issue. If you like F Planet Stories, you’ll weep. TITLE A B C 37. TOO COMPLETE SCIENCE-ADVENTURE BOOKS: Changed from 25c to 35c in price D + during 1953. Folded with its Spring, 1954 (11th) issue. A pulp and a 1 Amazing Stories 5/8 8 2.50 D + reprint magazine to boot. The selections could have been better but it 2 Astounding Science Fiction 12 4.20 did print some decent material. 3 Authentic Science Fiction Monthly G 12 2.52 D 38. UNIVERSE SCIENCE FICTION: Bought by Ray Palmer and issued under his 4 Avon S-F and Fantasy Reader E 2 .70 D + D + # imprint with its 3rd issue. Although published in Chicago, it is not 5 Beyond Fantasy Fiction 3 1.05 2 .70 D + # generally distributed in that city. With the death of Other Worlds and 6 Cosmos S-F and Fantasy Magazine 4 1.00 P Science Stories, Universe remains Palmer's last strictly science fiction 7 Dynamic Science Fiction 8 Famous Fantastic Mysteries E 3 .75 P magazine. "The Club House" is supposed to be revived for Rog Phillips + with the 8th issue. 9 Fantastic 6 2.10 D P 39. VORTEX,SCIENCE FICTION: Undated, 350, digest-size magazine that folded 10 Fantastic Adventures E 3 .75 P with its second, 1953 number. It is not missed. 11 Fantastic Story Magazine 5 1.25 40. WEIRD TALES: Changed to digest-size and 35c, with the September, 1953 12 Fantastic Universe Science Fiction 3 1.50 D # 4 1.40 D + # issue. For a magazine that has lasted 31 years and survived many a com 13 Fantasy Fiction E 6 1.50 P petitor, one can only say that it has a magnificent past and a bleak and 14 Future Science Fiction 12 4.20 D + dreary future. The devotion of its readership is unmatched in the field. 15 Galaxy Science Fiction 16 Galaxy Science Fiction Novels 6 2.10 D + It deserves better than it is getting, these days. + 41. WONDER STORY ANNUAL: A reprint magazine from Standard Magazines that 17 IF: Worlds of Science Fiction 6 2.10 D 11 3.85 D + folded after 4 issues with its 1953 number. It may well be that it will 18 Imagination 12 4.20 D + be reissued in future years. Another pulp gone. 19 Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 20 Mystic Magazine 1 .35 D + # 21 Nebula Science Fiction S 5 1.40 D 22 New Worlds Science Fiction G 3 .77 D D (TABLE 1 ) 23 Orbit Science Fiction 1 .35 # (NOTES ON TABLE 1 ) 24 Other Worlds Science Stories E 7 2.45 D + Planet Stories 6 1.50 P # of # of Cumlative 1. The titles are taken from Donald 25 26 Rocket Stories E 3 1.05 D + # Titles Issues to date B. Day’s Index to the Science Science-Fantasy G 1 .28 D Fiction Magazines I926-I950. It 27 28 Science Fiction Adventures 6 2.10 D + 1926 1 9 9 should be noted that Day does not Science Fiction Plus E 7 2.45 L + # 1927 2 13 22 include many fantasy magazines 29 Science Fiction Quarterly 4 1.00 P 1928 2 16 38 such as Weird Tales, Strange Tales 30 Science Fiction Stories 1 .35 D + rf- 1929 5 30 68 etc. and so the number of titles 31 Science Stories 2 .70 D + # and issues are higher than the 32 1930 7 60 128 33 Space Science Fiction E 5 1.75 D + listed totals would indicate. 1931 6 45 173 34 Space Stories E 3 .75 P 2. A magazine is listed as 1 title 1932 5 39 212 Spaceway: Stories of the Future 1 .35 D + # regardless of the number of title 35 1933 5 29 241 36 Startling Stories 8 2.00 P changes in any one year. 1934 4 37 278 Thrilling Wonder Stories 5 1.25 P 3* In case of dates bridging years, 37 1935 3 33 311 38 Toby Press Novels E 1 .35 D + # 1936 3 23 334 the title and issue is included Tops in Science Fiction E 1/2 .60 D + # in every case in the earlier year, 39 1937 4 25 40 Two Complete Science-Adventure Books 3 .85 P 359 4. 1937-an undated issue of Tales of 1938 6 32 391 41 Universe Science Fiction 3 1.05 D + # 1939 14 72 463 Wonder (English) is included. 42 Vortex Science Fiction E 2 .70 D + it 5. 1950-included two issues of Weird Tales 2/6 1.70 D + 1940 18 105 568 43 Science-Fantasy (English) and 44 Wonder Story Annual E 1 .25 P 1941 21 106 674 Fantasy Book # 7 which are not in 1942 15 91 765 Day’s Index. TOTALS: 13 207 864.72 16 1943 14 64 829 6. 1951 and 1952-titles and issues 1944 8 TOTAL COST RECAPITULATION 39 868 are compiled from indexes prepared KE^r TO TABLE 2 : 1953 1945 7 36 904 by Edward Wood for Journal of 1946 A - Total number of issues for AVERAGE: 9 50 954 Science Fiction (#3, 1931 indexTF the year YEAR • - 8 64.72 1947 11 64 1018 (# 4, 1952 index). B = Price for all issues MONTH ■ - 8 5.3954 1948 11 68 1086 7. 1953 is compiled from special C = Type DAY - 0 1949 17.731 15 78 1164 notes of Edward Wood that will be + = 350 price SUMMARY OF AMERICAN MAGAZINES 1950 published in the next issue of D = Digest 27 116 1280 TYPE # of Titles # of Issues 1951 31 163 1443 DES TINY, as the 1953 magazine P = Pulp 1952 174 index. L = Large 33 1617 Digest 27 120 1953 44 8. 1951-53, Weird Tales and all semi - E = Extinct 207 1824 Pulp 15 1954 fantasy titles are included. F = New title 59 Large 1 7 1955 G = British S = Scottish TOTALS: 4}♦♦ 186 . _ Digest issues •* Three titles changed from1 pulp ' ” Total issues size to digest size.
58 DESTINY DESTINY 59 NEW SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES SINCE 1945 TO MARCH 15, 1954 BY YEARS (Table 4 Concluded) (TABLE 4 ) + = Extinct magazine R = Revived pre-war magazine +13 Toby Press Novels Undated ■53 Same 1 Spring ■53 Fall '53 2 TITLE First issue Last issue # of +14 Tops in Science Fiction Dated Dated Issues 15 Universe Science Fiction June '53 Continues 5 Undated Undated ’53 2 1946-2 Titles 16 Vortex Science Fiction '53 +1 Fantasy (British) December '46 August •47 3 1954-1 Title (To March 15th.) 2 New Worlds (British) Undated •48 Continues 21 1 Science Fiction Digest Undated '54 Continues? 1 1947-2 Titles (TABLE 5 ) MAGAZINES SUSPENDED FROM 1947 TO MARCH 15, 1954 +1 Avon Fantasy Reader Undated ■47 Undated ■52 18 +2 Fantasy Book Undated '47 Undated 8 '51 1947-1 Title 1948-2 Titles 1 Fantasy (British) December •46 August *47 3 R+l Fantastic Novels March •48 June '51 20 +2 From Unknown Worlds Undated •48 Same 1948-1 Title 1 1 From Unknown Worlds Undated •48 Same 1 1949-4 Titles 1 Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Fall Continues 1950-3 Titles •49 35 1 Fantasy Fiction/Stories May '50 November ’50 2 +2 A. Merritt Fantasy Magazine December •49 August '50 5 2 A. Merritt Fantasy Magazine December •49 August ’50 5 +3 Other Worlds Science Stories November •49 July '53 31 3 Out of This World Adventures July '50 December ’50 2 R+4 Super Science Stories January •49 August •51 15 1950-12 Titles 1951-5 Titles 1 Fantastic Novels July •40 June •51 25 1 Fantastic Story Quarterly Spring •50 Continues 19 2 Fantasy Book Undated •47 Undated *51 8 +2 Fantasy Fiction/Stories May November •50 •50 2 3 Super Science Stories March •40 August •51 31 R 3 Future Science Fiction May/June Continues •50 24 4 Ten Story Fantasy Spring •51 Same 1 4 Galaxy Science Fiction October Continues •50 43 5 Worlds Beyond December '50 February *51 3 5 Galaxy Science Fiction Novels Undated '50 Continues 19 6 Imagination October '50 Continues 28 1952-6 Titles Undated Undated *52 18 R+7 Marvel Science Fiction October '50 May '52 6 1 Avon Fantasy Reader •47 +8 Out of This World Adventures July '50 December •50 2 2 Avon Science Fiction Reader Undated •51 Undated ’52 3 December ’52 2 9 Science-Fantasy (British) Summer '50 Continues 7 3 Fantastic Science Fiction August •52 +10 Two Complete Science Adventure Books Winter '50 Spring •54 11 4 Marvel Science Fiction August '38 May ' 52 15 November +11 Worlds Beyond December '50 February '51 3 5 The Mysterious Traveller Magazine •51 5 Winter *52 4 +12 Wonder Story Annual Undated '50 Undated '53 4 6 Suspense: The High-Tension Magazine Spring •51 1951-6 Titles 1953-13 Titles 2 1 Authentic S-F Monthly (British) Undated '51 Continues 42 1 Avon Science Fiction & Fantasy Reader January '53 April '53 Sep./Oct. June • 53 81 +2 Avon Science Fiction Reader Undated '51 Undated '52 3 2 Famous Fantastic Mysteries . '39 March *53 128 +3 The Mysterious Traveler Magazine November '51 ? 5 3 Fantastic Adventures May •39 February November ’53 4 R 4 Science Fiction Quarterly May ■51 Continues 13 4 Fantasy Magazine/Fiction •53 November • 49 July '53 31 +5 Suspense: The High-Tension Magazine Spring '51 Winter ■52 4 5 Other Worlds Science Stories +6 Ten Story Fantasy Spring '51 Same 1 6 Rocket Stories April '53 September’53 3 7 Science Fiction Plus March •53 December ’53 7 >-8 Titles 195‘ 8 Space Science Fiction May •52 September’53 8 +1 Dynamic Science Fiction December '52 January '54 6 9 Space Stories August '52 June •53 5 2 Fantastic Summer '52 Continues 12 10 Toby Press Novels Undated '53 Same 1 +3 Fantastic Science Fiction August '52 December '52 2 11 Tops in Science Fiction Spring •53 Fall '53 2 4 IF: Worlds of Science Fiction March '52 Continues 15 12 Vortex Science Fiction Undated •53 Undated ’53 2 Nebula Science Fiction (Scottish) 5 Autumn '52 Continues 7 13 Wonder Story Annual Undated •50 Undated ’53 4 6 Science Fiction Adventures November '52 Continues 8 +7 Space Science Fiction May •52 September '53 8 1954-4 Titles (To March 15th.) September153 March ’54 3 +8 Space Stories August '52 June '53 5 1 Cosmos S-F and Fantasy Magazine 2 Dynamic Science Fiction December •52 January •54 6 19^>-16 Titles 3 Science Stories October •53 April '54 4 Avon s'cience Fiction & Fantasy Reader +1 January •53 April •53 2 4 Two Complete Science-Adventure Books Winter •50 Spring '54 11 2 Beyond Fantasy Fiction July '53 Continues 6 happening or why. +3 Cosmos S-F and Fantasy Magazine September '53 March '54 3 G. The trend of decline 4 Fantastic Universe Science Fiction June/July '53 Continues 6 The decline in circulation of the Bob Silverberg wrote an excellent review of 1953 in hie Spaceship #24, +5 Fantasy Magazine/Fiction February '53 November '53 4 magazines has been field-wide, with 6 Mystic Magazine November '53 Continues 4 only a few increasing their circulat January, 1954. For a number of years Fantasy-Times was excellent and prompt 7 Orbit Science Fiction Undated '53 Continues 2 ion in the face of this trend. This in reporting the news of new magazines +8 Rocket Stories April '53 September '53 3 writer frankly admits his ignorance appearing. But in early 1954, the +9 Science Fiction Plus March '53 December '53 as to where this downward path will 7 interested S-F student had to resort 10 Science Fiction Stories Undated •53 Continues? 1 lead. As has been stated before, it to private correspondence or other +11 Science Stories October '53 April '54 4 will be downhill for more than a short means to obtain information, since 12 Spaceway December '53 Continues 2 time. (See Graph I.) You are free to pick your own ideas of what is Fantasy-Times is not very prompt these (TABLE 4 CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE) 60 DESTINY DESTINY 61 days. Lyle Kessler in his column 17 titles have folded, leaving only last the present situation. If it induction into the Army for a ”How Are You Fixed For Blood?" (In 24 titles on the American Market. does not it should, in the normal second hitch. For the duration of Psychotic # 9» March, 1954) makes a This figure will be unquestionably course of events, be discarded. Lit this term, all mail for the Journal number of surprising comments, i.e. obsolete by the time the reader sees tle will be lost. Very, very little. of Science Fiction should be mailed Astounding Science Fiction still leads it. Surely such titles as Science 22 March 1954 directly to the editors of DESTINY. the field even though its circulation Fiction Digest, Orbit Science Fiction, is off 22%, Magazine of Fantasy and Chicago, Ill. Any personal correspondence, addressed Science Fiction Stories, etc., cannot to Ed will be forwarded promptly Science Fiction to go bi-monthly, etc. last long. upon receipt of same. THE EDITORS For a number of years, this writer Few people have considered science The same day that this article was has been in the habit of asking a fiction sub specie aeternitatis. completed Edward Wood left for re- number of news dealers how the sales Rather it is- upon the contineous of the science fiction magazines was changes of the moment that so many going. Many reply, and even give words have been expended and to so valuable information, such as "Mag little purpose. This, article was azine "X" has been called back by the written, not to justify any pet distributor", "Distributor "Y" has theory of the author’s who admits to dropped magazine "Z"," etc. The first his own particular prejudices. Rather indications that the sales were off, it was to show that science fict i on look at came to light in December, 1952. presents an interesting topic for Most publishers and editors did not study and understanding. The personal realize what was happening until the opinions may be odious, but the early months of 1953« when the returns graphs and tables represent the raw began coming in. Following further data from which other, more gifted developments has been an interesting people may be able to construct more game. It promises to be even more consistent and more useful "models" interesting during the latter portion of the nature of science fiction. of 1954. There will always be times of HERE IT IS Remembering that Belloc said, "Men crisis in the lives of men, and of prophesy and the future makes fools things. All that can be done is to WITHIN A FEW ISSUES of them.", it takes a great deal of arm one's self with the knowledge courage to say how many titles will and courage to outlast and overcome be left by the end of, 1954. To say them. 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