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Fan, whole no. 4, September 1945
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THE PROFESSIONAL SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES By Sgt Forrest J Ackerman There are a number of science fiction magazines available at any newsstand. Some of their names are AMAZING STORIES, ASTOUNDING SCIENCE-FICTION, THRILLING WONDER STORIES. These magazines cater to differet tastes, so that if you are a beginner, you will want to pick one that is your type. For instance: Do you like fast-moving novels, with lots of excitement and adventure? Try Startling Stories. This appears every three months at 15¢ a copy, and features thrilling adventures in future worlds and strange places. Thrilling Wonder Stories is a companion magazine to Startling. It, too, is 15¢, appears every three months. Its contents run to exciting, science-flavored stories of strange people and other planets. If thoughts of trips to other worlds fascinate you, Planet Stories is your meat. Here is a magazine (20¢ quarterly) chock-full of rocket ships, monsters, mysteries and maidens in distress. Astounding Science-Fiction is recommended to readers with a solid interest in science. The stuff in this mag is on the technical side--but good! Also a lot of sociology. How are we liable to live in the future? Will men one day be replaced by supermen (not of the comic strip variety)? Those are some of the questions that are fictionally treated in this 25¢ monthly. Amazing Stories is just what the name implies. Anything can happen in this magazine's pages, and usually does. Invasions from Mars that don't turn out to be a Wellesian hoax, trips into the future, screwball inventions, surprising plans for giving Hirohito the hotfoot. This mag is bigger than the others, comes out every three months, sells for 25¢. Fantastic Adventures is put out by the same editor as the preceding magazines, is also a quarter and appears quarterly. It has even a broader policy, permitting even more amazing things to happen. You don't have to know much about science to like this one. Particularly good if you like stories of lost civilizations and/or fantastic "corny" humor. Science fiction stories also appear in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (25¢ quarterly), Weird Tales (15¢, bi-monthly). The first science fiction magazine was Amazing Stories, which has been running ever since April 1926. Pre-war, before paper rationing and induction of authors, there were nearly twenty different magazines featuring science stories. In the "old days", when the magazines appeared monthly, there also used to be quarterly issues, which were twice the usual size. Some of the outstanding magazines of the past have been: Miracle Stories, Marvel Science Stories, Dynamic Science Stories, Astonishing Stories, Super Science Stories, Air Wonder Stories, Scientific Detective Stories, Future Fiction, Science Fiction, Comet, Captain Future, Stirring Science and Cosmic Stories. It is interesting to note that in Canada and England science fiction magazines have been published to augment those imported from America. Some of the titles: Tales of Wonder, Fantasy Magazine, Uncanny Stories, and so forth. "Fans" look to a postwar boom in science fiction magazines. If you "latch on" now, you'll have a lot of swell reading to look forward to!
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THE PROFESSIONAL SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES By Sgt Forrest J Ackerman There are a number of science fiction magazines available at any newsstand. Some of their names are AMAZING STORIES, ASTOUNDING SCIENCE-FICTION, THRILLING WONDER STORIES. These magazines cater to differet tastes, so that if you are a beginner, you will want to pick one that is your type. For instance: Do you like fast-moving novels, with lots of excitement and adventure? Try Startling Stories. This appears every three months at 15¢ a copy, and features thrilling adventures in future worlds and strange places. Thrilling Wonder Stories is a companion magazine to Startling. It, too, is 15¢, appears every three months. Its contents run to exciting, science-flavored stories of strange people and other planets. If thoughts of trips to other worlds fascinate you, Planet Stories is your meat. Here is a magazine (20¢ quarterly) chock-full of rocket ships, monsters, mysteries and maidens in distress. Astounding Science-Fiction is recommended to readers with a solid interest in science. The stuff in this mag is on the technical side--but good! Also a lot of sociology. How are we liable to live in the future? Will men one day be replaced by supermen (not of the comic strip variety)? Those are some of the questions that are fictionally treated in this 25¢ monthly. Amazing Stories is just what the name implies. Anything can happen in this magazine's pages, and usually does. Invasions from Mars that don't turn out to be a Wellesian hoax, trips into the future, screwball inventions, surprising plans for giving Hirohito the hotfoot. This mag is bigger than the others, comes out every three months, sells for 25¢. Fantastic Adventures is put out by the same editor as the preceding magazines, is also a quarter and appears quarterly. It has even a broader policy, permitting even more amazing things to happen. You don't have to know much about science to like this one. Particularly good if you like stories of lost civilizations and/or fantastic "corny" humor. Science fiction stories also appear in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (25¢ quarterly), Weird Tales (15¢, bi-monthly). The first science fiction magazine was Amazing Stories, which has been running ever since April 1926. Pre-war, before paper rationing and induction of authors, there were nearly twenty different magazines featuring science stories. In the "old days", when the magazines appeared monthly, there also used to be quarterly issues, which were twice the usual size. Some of the outstanding magazines of the past have been: Miracle Stories, Marvel Science Stories, Dynamic Science Stories, Astonishing Stories, Super Science Stories, Air Wonder Stories, Scientific Detective Stories, Future Fiction, Science Fiction, Comet, Captain Future, Stirring Science and Cosmic Stories. It is interesting to note that in Canada and England science fiction magazines have been published to augment those imported from America. Some of the titles: Tales of Wonder, Fantasy Magazine, Uncanny Stories, and so forth. "Fans" look to a postwar boom in science fiction magazines. If you "latch on" now, you'll have a lot of swell reading to look forward to!
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