![]() ![]() ![]() This volume provides that commentary for the historianĪnd general reader, not only for titles for which information is partially available, but for those titles which have never before been researched. Except as it appears scattered througout general histories of this genre, and in capsule form in Peter Nicholls' The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (1979), commentary on these magazines has never been available in any sustained form. Our purpose in compiling this volume is to provide scholars, researchers and the general reader with a useful tool for evaluating the science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction magazines as a historical and literary phenomenon, and to furnish a bibliographic apparatus for documenting the appearance of these magazines in all their various phases. Clareson's introduction to this volume provides a balanced historical perspective on this important period in the history of science fiction and fantasy literature. It was the pulp era that determined the directions in which the genre would develop and laid the groundwork for future writers. A knowledge of that era is crucial to an understanding of the history of this literature. A long line of specialist pulp titles appeared that were to remain virtually the only outlet for science fiction and fantasy writers during this period. It was during the pulp era (roughly from 1926 until the early 1950s) that fantastic literature separated itself from the mainstream of publishing. This volume gives full coverage of the pulp age of science fiction and fantasy, beginning with the general pulp magazines such as Argosy, which was first published in 1882 and regularly included science fiction and fantasy, through the decades of specialist pulp titles that began with the publication of Weird Tales in 1923, up to the contemporary pulps of the early 1980s. Day for the 1926-1950 period, by Norm Metcalf for the 19511965 period, and by the New England Science Fiction Association from 1966 to the present, no guide as comprehensive in scope as this has ever been published. ![]() Although the contents of science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction magazines have been partially indexed by Donald B. Preface This volume was compiled to fill a gap in the library of reference works currently available in the field of fantastic literature. Non-English-Language Magazines, by Country Hal W. Clareson AbbreviationsĪssociational English-Language AnthologiesĪcademic Periodicals and Major Fanzines Joseph L. 88 Post Road West Westport, Connecticut 06881 Printed in the United States of America 10 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 84-11523 ISBN 1-X ISSN 0742-5538 First published in 1985 Greenwood Press A division of Congressional Information Service, Inc. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Tymn and Mike Ashley All rights reserved. ![]() (Historical guides to the world's periodicals and newspapers, ISSN 0742-5538) Includes bibliographies and index. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Tymn, Marshall B., 1937Science fiction, fantasy, and weird fiction magazines. Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND WEIRD FICTION MAGAZINES Edited by Gordon Kelly, editor International Film, Radio, and Television Journals Anthony Slide, editor Parins British Literary Magazines: The Augustan Age and the Age of Johnson, 1698-1788 Alvin Sullivan, editor British Literary Magazines: The Romantic Age, 1789-1836 Alvin Sullivan, editor British Literary Magazines: The Victorian and Edwardian Age, 1837-1913 Alvin Sullivan, editor Children's Periodicals of the United States R. Cook American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 Daniel F. Daniel Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines Michael L. Black Journals of the United States Walter C. Recent Titles of Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers This series provides historically focused narrative and analytical profiles of periodicals and newspapers with accompanying bibliographical data. ![]()
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