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Weird Tales

Authors

M. R. James 1862-1936

Algernon Blackwood 1869-1951

H.P. Lovecraft 1890-1937

Weird Tales Magazine

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SF

Timeline of science fiction

Authors

Prominent Golden Age Authors

Prominent Golden Age authors
Robert Silverberg in a 2010 essay argued that the true Golden Age was the 1950s, saying that “Golden Age” of the 1940s was a kind of "false dawn". "Until the decade of the fifties", Silverberg wrote, "there was essentially no market for science fiction books at all"; the audience supported only a few special interest small presses. The 1950s saw "a spectacular outpouring of stories and novels that quickly surpassed both in quantity and quality the considerable achievement of the Campbellian golden age"

Less Famous Authors

Raymond Z. Gallun

Anthologies

Raymond J. Healy anthologies

• Adventures in Time and Space 1946, with J. Francis McComas
• New Tales of Space and Time 1951 New Tales of Space and Time
• 9 Tales of Space and Time 1954
• Selections from Adventures in Time and Space 1954 (paperback, subset of stories from the hardback Selections from Adventures in Time and Space
• More Adventures in Time and Space 1955, (paperback, subset of stories from the hardback More Adventures in Time and Space)

Groff Conklin anthologies

• The Best of Science Fiction 1946 (variant title: The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1980))
• A Treasury of Science Fiction 1948
• Omnibus of Science Fiction 1952
• Invaders of Earth 1952
• Giants Unleashed 1965

Other anthologies

• Before the Golden Age 1974
• Science Fiction of the Thirties 1975

Digests

Winterbotham's "Madness on Luna" April 1939 Amazing Stories

• Weird Tales 1923-1974 isfdb
• Amazing Stories 1926-2014 isfdb
• Astounding Stories/Analog 1930- isfdb: Astounding Stories 1930-1937 isfdb: Astounding/Analog 1937-1971 isfdb: Analog 1972-
• Fantasy & Science Fiction 1949- isfdb
• Galaxy Science Fiction 1950-1980 isfdb

Astounding Stories of Super-Science Jan 1930 - Jan 1931 inclusive
Astounding Stories Feb 1931 - Feb 1938
Astounding Science Fiction Mar 1938 - Jan 1960 (start of John W. Campbell editorship)
Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction Feb 1960 - Sep 1960
Analog Science Fact & Fiction Oct 1960 - Mar 1965
Analog Science Fiction Science Fact Apr 1965 - Dec 1971 (end of John W. Campbell editorship)
Analog Science Fiction Science Fact Jan 1972 - (same as previous name, different editors)
Analog Science Fact Science Fiction Jan 2020 - (swap Fact and Fiction)

Amazing_Stories: Influence_on_the_field
"After the first few years, when there was little or no competition, Amazing Stories never again led the field in the eyes of critics or fans. Despite its long history, the magazine rarely contributed much to science fiction beyond the initial creation of the genre, though Gernsback himself is commemorated in the name Hugo"

Frederik Pohl
"From the early 1960s until 1969, Pohl served as editor of Galaxy Science Fiction and Worlds of if magazines...He also served as editor of Worlds of Tomorrow from its first issue in 1963 until it was merged into if in 1967."

Worlds of Tomorrow 1963-1967 edited by Frederik Pohl isfdb
"Worlds of Tomorrow was an American science fiction magazine published from 1963 to 1967, at which point it was merged into If."

If/Worlds of If 1952-1974 isfdb
"If was merged into Galaxy Science Fiction after the December 1974 issue" "If was a digest-sized magazine throughout its life."

Fantastic 1952-1980, "digest-size fantasy and science fiction magazine" isfdb
"founded as a fantasy companion to Amazing Stories". "Early sales were good, and the company quickly decided to switch Amazing from pulp format to digest, and to cease publication of their other science fiction pulp, Fantastic Adventures."

Fantastic Adventures 1939-1953 isfdb
"Browne's interest in fantasy led him to start a new digest-sized magazine, Fantastic, in the summer of 1952; it was an immediate success, and led Ziff-Davis to convert Amazing Stories to digest format as well. The move from the pulp format to digests was well under way in the early 1950s, and with Fantastic's success there was little reason to keep Fantastic Adventures going. It was merged with Fantastic; the last issue was dated March 1953, and the May–June issue of Fantastic added a mention of Fantastic Adventures to the masthead, though this disappeared with the following issue."

Other Worlds 1949-1953 isfdb

Science Fiction Stories 1953-1960 The Original Science Fiction Stories isfdb
"With the September 1955 issue, the title graphic of Science Fiction Stories was modified so that the cover read The Original Science Fiction Stories."

"Note that although the cover read "The Original Science Fiction Stories" for much of the second run, the title was always "Science Fiction Stories", though some reference books index the magazine under "O""

Digest-sized_magazines
"The first sf magazine to change to digest size was Astounding, in 1943. Other major digests, which published more literary science fiction, were The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Galaxy Science Fiction and If."

"Most digest magazines began in the 1950s... Most survived only a few issues. By 1960, in the United States, there were only six sf digests on newsstands, in 1970 there were seven, in 1980 there were five, in 1990 only four and in 2000 only three."

Beginning of the digest era
"Street & Smith, one of the longest established and most respected magazine publishers, shut down all their pulps in the summer of 1949. The pulps were dying, largely as a result of the success of pocketbooks"

"Although Astounding had been in digest format since 1943..."

"The only survivor of Street & Smith's pulp titles was the digest-format Astounding Science Fiction. By the end of 1955, Fantastic Adventures, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Thrilling Wonder, Startling Stories, Planet Stories, Weird Tales, and Fantastic Story Quarterly had all ceased publication. Despite the pulps' decline, a few new magazines did appear in pulp format at the end of the 1940s, though these were all short-lived, and several of them focused on reprints rather than new material."

Covers

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