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until May 1954, which was followed by a Summer 1954 issue. A quarterly schedule resumed until the end; unusually, the winter issue that year was dated Winter 1954/55, rather than with a single year. The volume numbering was consistent throughout the magazine's publication, with five volumes of 12 issues and a final volume of 11, but there were three errors in the volume numbering printed on the spine (though not on the masthead): issue 5/10 was given as 5/8 on the spine; issue 5/11 was given as 6/3 on the spine; and issue 6/11 was given as 6/12 on the spine.
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528:, who had been the cover artist for the early Gernsback magazines in the 1920s. Paul's distinctive style was strongly associated with the early years of the field. The cover art was also melodramatic, with beautiful women—sometimes human, sometimes princesses from other planets—and threatening aliens. The subheading on the cover read "Strange Adventures on Other Worlds – The Universe of Future Centuries" until the end of 1946.
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began as a quarterly. A brief attempt was made to switch to a bimonthly schedule in 1943; a March and May issue appeared, but the next issue was titled Fall 1943, inaugurating another quarterly period. The Fall 1950 issue was followed by
November 1950, and this began a bimonthly period that lasted
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switched from a quarterly to bimonthly schedule. Bixby lasted a little over a year; Malcolm Reiss took over again in
September 1951, and three issues later, in March 1952, Jack O'Sullivan became editor. A contemporary market survey records that in 1953, payment rates were only one to two cents per
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could be described as space opera, there was some variety of approach to the basic themes. Earth was sometimes threatened, but more often the action took place on other worlds, bringing
Earthmen into local conflicts. This often involved beautiful native princesses, though the romantic storylines
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magazine for all of its 71 issues. It was 128 pages for most of its existence, and was priced at 20 cents. With the
November 1950 issue the page count was cut to 112, and the price went up to 25 cents. The page count was reduced to 96 for one issue in March 1952, but then returned to 112 until
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and other authors' agents to fill the first issue. The results were unremarkable, but Reiss was energetic, and was able to improve the quality of fiction in succeeding issues, though he occasionally apologized to the readers for printing weak material. The magazine was exclusively focused on
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depicted sexuality more directly than the competing magazines would. The readers were not always accepting; one reader in a letter in 1949 supported "jettisoning the taboos", but a letter writer in 1946 objected to "Lorelei of the Red Mist", saying that he needed "a pint of
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were stereotyped. Some respite from these depictions of women was provided by Leigh
Brackett, who described her own heroines as "usually on the bitchy side—warm-blooded, hot-tempered, but gutty and intelligent" (with "bitchy" intended as a compliment). During
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A British reprint edition appeared between March 1950 and
September 1954; the issues were numbered but not dated, and were heavily cut, with only 64 to 68 pages. There are twelve issues known; a thirteenth has been rumored but not seen by any sf
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commented in a letter in the Summer 1950 issue that Ray
Bradbury "certainly gets some original ideas, if not good ones". The editors put a good deal of effort into keeping the letter column friendly and lively; contemporary writer and editor
135:, which began in the summer of 1949. Brackett and Bradbury collaborated on one story, "Lorelei of the Red Mist", which appeared in 1946; it was generally well-received, although one letter to the magazine complained that the story's
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and Damon Knight. Asimov's story, originally titled "Pilgrimage", appeared in 1942; Asimov had been unable to sell the piece elsewhere, and rewrote it numerous times for different editors, adding a religious element at
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was titled "The
Vizigraph"; it was very active, with long letters from an engaged readership. It often printed letters from established writers, and from fans who would go on to become well known professionally:
1487:#1, appeared in 1975 from Ballantine Books, edited by Leigh Brackett, containing seven stories reprinted from between 1942 and 1952. It was intended to be the first of a series, but no further volumes appeared.
202:, and was published by Love Romances, a subsidiary company that had been created to publish Fiction House's romance titles. The first issue was dated Winter 1939. Two comics were launched at the same time:
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demonstrate his reservations about the advance of technology, in particular "The Golden Apples of the Sun" (November 1953), and "A Sound of
Thunder" (January 1954, reprinted from the June 28, 1952 issue of
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that a reader was most likely to come across a female character who could fight, instead of merely being fought over. Sex itself had long been taboo in the pulp magazines, but some stories in
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Although science fiction (sf) had been published before the 1920s, it did not begin to coalesce into a separately marketed genre until the appearance in 1926 of
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did not pay well enough to regularly attract the leading science fiction writers of the day, but occasionally obtained work from well-known authors, including
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improved over the next few years, largely due to the work of
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returned to a quarterly schedule beginning with the Summer 1954 issue, but the pulp market was collapsing, and the Summer 1955 issue was the final one.
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attracted experienced readers of the genre who "still yearned for the early days of sf". Critic and sf historian Thomas Clareson has commented that "
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represented in the 1940s", though his cover artwork was less impressive than his black-and-white interior illustrations. Artist and sf historian
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sardonically referred to as "sexual dimorphism in space": heavy, functional spacesuits for the men, and transparent suits through which
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seemed to look backward towards the 1930s and earlier", an impression that was strengthened by the extensive use of interior artwork by
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from the beginning, and retained editorial oversight and control throughout its run, though he was not always the named editor on the
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was the publisher of the first issue. Issues 7 and 8 of the British edition also contained nonfiction material reprinted from
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to wash the dirty taste out of my mouth". The cover artwork generally emphasized sex as well, with what sf author and critic
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may have been instrumental in attracting young readers to science fiction, but Ashley suggests that it is more likely that
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contributed much of the interior artwork, and the covers were often by Allen Anderson during the early years. Later,
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was also a regular contributor, with seventeen stories in total published over the lifetime of the magazine.
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Brackett, Leigh (July 1944). "The Science-Fiction Field".
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1380:Malcolm Reiss: Winter 1939 – Summer 1942.
1959:David Hardy, "Art and Artists", in Holdstock,
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