Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction was a digest size science fiction magazine, the creation of noted editor Horace Leonard Gold, generally known as H. L. Gold.

Related Topics:
Digest size - Science fiction - Magazine - Horace Leonard Gold

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Galaxy's premiere issue introduced a book review column by celebrated anthologist Groff Conklin, which continued till 1955, and a science column by Willy Ley that continued until his death in 1969 (before the Apollo 11 landing).

Related Topics:
Groff Conklin - 1955 - Willy Ley - 1969 - Apollo 11

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Galaxy published acclaimed science fiction for most of three decades under a succession of editors:

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• H. L. Gold: October, 1950 - October, 1961 (See note under Frederik Pohl.)
• Frederik Pohl: ? 1958? - May, 1969 (Pohl took over from an ailing Gold sometime in the late 1950s, though the masthead was not changed until the December 1961 issue.)
• Ejler Jakobsson: July, 1969 - May, 1974
• James Baen: June, 1974 - October, 1977
• John J. Pierce: November, 1977 - March/April, 1979
• Hank Stine: June/July, 1979 - September/October, 1979
• Floyd Kemske: 1980

Begun as a monthly, the magazine varied between monthly, bimonthly and eventually irregularly-issued status at different times during its 30+ year run. In 1953 a French edition, Galaxie, was launched, and in 1957, a German edition, Galaxis. After Groff Conklin stepped down as book reviewer, his column was continued by Floyd C. "Gale" (actually Gold, H. L. Gold's brother). (Indications that Conklin himself continued the column after 1955 appear to be in error.) In February, 1965, Pohl brought Algis Budrys on as book reviewer; he was succeeded later, sometime before 1972, by Theodore Sturgeon, who passed the job to Spider Robinson in 1975. Vaughn Bode briefly contributed a comic strip, Sunpot, to the magazine in the early 1970s. Jerry Pournelle served as science columnist under Baen, and famous sf fan and professional erotica writer Richard E. Geis wrote a fannish commentary column "The Alien Viewpoint" in the latter 1970s issues (after they had begun appearing in Baen's If ). With the January 1975 issue, Galaxy incorporated its sister magazine, Worlds of If, founded in March of 1952, with which it had shared several editors after purchase from founding publisher James Quinn in the latter 1950s. Galaxy ceased publication in 1980. In the early 1990s the magazine was purchased by E. J. Gold, son of the founder, who published eight bimonthly issues in 8x11 format on pulp stock between Jan/Feb 1994 and Mar/Apr 1995. Plans to continue the Galaxy title online did not develop, though the former editor maintains a scattering of Galaxy-related web pages.

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1953 - 1957 - Algis Budrys - 1972 - Theodore Sturgeon - Spider Robinson - Jerry Pournelle - Richard E. Geis - 1975 - Worlds of If - James Quinn - 1980 - 1990s - 1994 - 1995

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Among the sibling magazines and side projects: Fascination (a magazine apparently devoted to romantic fumetti, the first major project in the US from Galaxys founding publisher World Editions)

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Beyond Fantasy Fiction, a digest size fantasy fiction magazine edited by H. L. Gold, 1953-1955 (poor sales led to a title change for its last issues to Beyond Fiction)

Related Topics:
Beyond Fantasy Fiction - Digest size - Fantasy fiction

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Galaxy Novels, a digest size line of usually abridged reprints, early 1950s.

Related Topics:
Galaxy Novels - Digest size

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Galaxy Magabooks, an early 1960s similar project.

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Worlds of Tomorrow, starting in 1963 and incorporated into If four years later, and perhaps most notable for some of its nonfiction content, including R. W. Ettinger's early articles on cryonics. The title was briefly relaunched under Jakobsson, 1970-71.

Related Topics:
Worlds of Tomorrow - R. W. Ettinger - Cryonics

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Worlds of Fantasy, 1968. Edited by Lester del Rey, by then a member of the Galaxy staff. Also briefly revived under Jakobsson, 1970-71.

Related Topics:
Worlds of Fantasy - Lester del Rey

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International Science Fiction, 1968. A shortlived attempt, edited by Pohl, to offer a wide range of international sf, much in translation into English for the first time.

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A number of anthologies have been drawn from the pages of Galaxy, including the Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction series and Pohl and others' Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction (1980).

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