#Robert Nourse

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Princeton University's Robert Nourse, Class of 1917, in his football uniform.

Historical Photograph Collection: Alumni Photographs Series (AC058), Box MP51.

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Artigo: Blade Runner, o filme mais cultuado de todos os tempos

O ponto de partida foi o livro de 1968 de Philip K. Dick, autor especialista em ficção científica, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Em 1969, o então novato Martin Scorsese manifestou o desejo de transpor para as telas o livro de Dick, mas apenas em 1974 os direitos foram adquiridos pela Herb Jaffe Associates e um roteiro escrito pelo filho do dono da agência, Robert Jaffe. Três anos depois, os direitos voltaram para Dick e foram repassados a Brian Kelly e um novo roteiro foi desenvolvido por Hampton Fancher. A produção ficou a cargo de Michael Deeley (O Franco Atirador), e o título mudou para Android. O nome de Ridley Scott surgiu pela primeira vez entre os prováveis­ diretores, mas quem se encarregou das filmagens foi Robert Muligan (Houve uma Vez um Verão), e novas alterações foram feitas no roteiro e o título alterado para Dangerous Days. Devido aos altos custos de produção, o projeto foi abandonado pela Universal e o roteiro original de Fancher chegou às mãos de Ridley Scott, que acabava de concluir Alien - O Oitavo Passageiro.

Nessa época, Deeley entrou em contato com os advogados dos escritores William S. Burroughs e Alan E. Nourse e adquiriu os direitos de uso do termo Blade Runner, que pertenciam a eles, e a ação passou de São Francisco em 1992 para Los Angeles em 2019. A saída de Fancher, descontente com as mudanças no seu roteiro, levou à contratação de David Webb Peoples (Os 12 Macacos), que então criou o termo "replicantes" para definir os androides da história.

Ridley Scott tinha escolhido Dustin Hoffman para o papel de Deckard, mas o ator desistiu e o nome do astro em ascensão Harrison Ford surgiu durante as filmagens de Os Caçadores da Arca Perdida, e ele foi contratado. Rutger Hauer, conhecido pelos filmes do diretor holandês Paul Verhoeven foi contratado para ser Roy Batty, e não precisou nem fazer teste, ao contrário de seus colegas Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, Joanna Cassidy e Brion James.

A produção ficou a cargo de um consórcio formado pela Ladd Co., a Warner Brothers, a Shaw Brother e a Tandem Productions, num orçamento de 19 milhões de dólares, que consumiu 4 meses de filmagens. O mais respeitados técnicos e artistas da época foram contratados para a filme: o compositor grego Vangelis, que havia no ano anterior ganhado o Oscar pela trilha de Carruagens de Fogo; o diretor de fotografia Jordan Cronnenweth (falecido em 1996); o designer futurista Syd Mead (de Tron - Uma Odisseia Eletrônica) e o especialista em efeitos visuais Douglas Trumbull (de Contatos Imediatos do 3º Grau).

As filmagens foram conturbadas. Scott se desentendeu diversas vezes com os atores e técnicos. Ele queria que Ford usasse um chapéu, mas o ator se negou, não querendo ser associado ao seu personagem em Os Caçadores da Arca Perdida, e criou ele mesmo o corte de cabelo que Deckard usa no filme. O escritor Philip K.Dick chegou a assistir as primeiras sequências rodadas mas faleceu logo depois, em 2 de março de 1982.

As brigas e conflitos cresceram à medida em que as filmagens chegavam ao fim, e ninguém imaginava que dali iria sair um divisor de águas no gênero. Os executivos da Warner não gostaram da complexidade da trama, e contra a vontade de Scott e do próprio Ford, obrigaram o ator a fazer uma narração ao longo do filme. Cortes drásticos foram feitos em algumas cenas e um happy end foi inserido utilizando cenas da abertura de O Iluminado.

O filme foi lançado em 25 de junho de 1982, recebeu crí­ticas negativas e foi fracasso de bilheteria, desaparecendo das salas de cinema. Quando passou a ser exibido fora dos EUA, recebeu maior atenção e o seu lançamento em vídeo o transformou em fenômeno cult, graças à propaganda boca à boca.

Em 1991, a versão original de Blade Runner foi descoberta por um estudante de cinemas num depósito de uma universidade da Califórnia e o material foi recolhido pela Warner que, percebendo o tesouro que tinha em mãos, chamou Ridley Scott para realizar uma "versão especial", do jeito que ele queria fazer na época do lançamento. A "Director's Cut" de Scott estreou nos cinemas americanos em 1992, e em 1993 no Brasil. Scott retirou a narração de Deckard, cortou detalhes violentos (os olhos furados de Tyrrell não são mais vistos e Roy Batty não enfia mais o prego em sua própria mão), acrescentou a sequência em que Deckard sonha com o unicórnio e eliminou a fuga pelas montanhas, encerrando o filme quando Deckard e Rachael entram no elevador.

A influência de Blade Runner no universo sci-fi ainda se faz notar nas produções recentes do gênero. Mais do que um filme de autor, uma aventura futurista com toques de filme noir ou um fenômeno cult que já dura duas décadas, Blade Runner é uma experiência audiovisual única no cinema, dando margem à discussões intermináveis e à diversas interpretações pessoais. Um clássico absoluto.

Blade Runner - O Caçador de Androides

Ficha Técnica: Título Original: Blade Runner Gênero: Ficção Científica Duração: 118 minutos Ano de Lançamento (EUA): 1982 Estúdio: The Ladd Company Distribuição: Columbia TriStar / Warner Bros. Direção: Ridley Scott Roteiro: Hampton Francher e David Webb Peoples, baseado em livro de Philip K. Dirk Produção: Michael Deeley Música: Vangelis Direção de Fotografia: Jordan Cronenweth Desenho de Produção: Peter J. Hampton e Lawrence G. Paull Direção de Arte: David L. Snyder Figurino: Michael Kaplan e Charles Knode Edição: Marsha Nakashima Efeitos Especiais: Dream Quest Images

Elenco: Harrison Ford (Deckard / Narrador) Rutger Hauer (Roy Batty) Sean Young (Rachael) Edward James Olmos (Gaff) M. Emmet Walsh (Capitão Bryant) Daryl Hannah (Pris) William Sanderson (J.F. Sebastian) Brion James (Leon) Joe Turkell (Tyrell) Joanna Cassidy (Zhora) James Hong (Hannibal Crew) Morgan Paull (Holden)

Sinopse: No início do século XXI, uma grande corporação desenvolve um robô que é mais forte e ágil que o ser humano e se equiparando em inteligência. São conhecidos como replicantes e utilizados como escravos na colonização e exploração de outros planetas. Mas, quando um grupo dos robôs mais evoluídos provoca um motim em uma colônia no espaço, os replicantes passam a ser considerados ilegais na Terra, sob pena de morte. Policiais de um esquadrão de elite, conhecidos como Blade Runners, têm ordem de atirar para matar em qualquer replicante encontrado na Terra. Como não são humanos, o ato não é considerado uma execução e sim uma remoção. Em novembro de 2019, em Los Angeles, um grupo de replicantes chega à Terra fugindo de uma colônia e um ex-Blade Runner é encarregado de caçá-los.

Postado no Cult Movies Multiply em 16/Dez/2004, 11:36 AM

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Janvier MMXXIV

Films

Bridget Jones Baby (Bridget Jones's Baby) (2016) de Sharon Maguire avec Renée Zellweger, Patrick Dempsey, Shirley Henderson, Gemma Jones et Jim Broadbent

Arnaque à Hollywood (The Comeback Trail) (2020) de George Gallo avec Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Eddie Griffin, Emile Hirsch et Kate Katzman

Copie conforme (1947) de Jean Dréville avec Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Annette Poivre, Madeleine Suffel, Jane Marken, Danièle Franconville, Jean-Jacques Delbo et Léo Lapara

L'Inconnu du Nord-Express (Strangers on a Train) (1951) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Marion Lorne, Jonathan Hale et Laura Elliott

Une affaire d'honneur (2023) de et avec Vincent Perez et aussi Roschdy Zem, Doria Tillier, Damien Bonnard, Guillaume Gallienne, Nicolas Gaspar, Pepe Lorente

Hôtel fantôme (Das letzte Problem) (2019) de et avec Karl Markovics et aussi Stefan Pohl, Maria Fliri, Julia Koch, Max Moor, Sunnyi Melles Laura Bilgeri

Aviator (The Aviator) (2004) de Martin Scorsese avec Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Adam Scott, Kelli Garner, Alec Baldwin, Ian Holm, Jude Law et Danny Huston

Palais royal ! (2005) de et avec Valérie Lemerciere et aussi Lambert Wilson, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Aumont, Mathilde Seigner, Denis Podalydès, Michel Vuillermoz, Gisèle Casadesus, Gilbert Melki, Maurane

Du plomb pour l'inspecteur (Pushover) (1954) de Richard Quine avec Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak, Dorothy Malonne, E.G. Marshall, Allen Nourse, James Anderson et Joe Bailey

Les Douze Salopards (The Dirty Dozen) (1967) de Robert Aldrich avec Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez et Telly Savalas

Le silence des ânes (Das Schweigen der Esel) (2022) de et avec Karl Markovics et aussi Julia Koch, Caroline Frank, Gerhard Liebmann, Valentin Sottopietra, Klaus Windisch, Tobias Fend, Julian Sark, Stefan Pohl

Elmer Gantry le charlatan (Elmer Gantry) (1960) de Richard Brooks avec Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones, Patti Page et Edward Andrews

Tendre Poulet (1978) de Philippe de Broca avec Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps, Paulette Dubost, Roger Dumas, Raymond Gérôme, Guy Marchand, Simone Renant et Georges Wilson

Judy (2019) de Rupert Goold avec Renée Zellweger, Darci Shaw, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Finn Wittrock, Richard Cordery, Jessie Buckley et Bella Ramsey

Cinquième Colonne (Saboteur) (1942) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Norman Lloyd, Alma Kruger et Vaughan Glaser

Robin des Bois, prince des voleurs (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) (1991) de Kevin Reynolds avec Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Nick Brimble et Michael McShane

La Fine Fleur (2020) de Pierre Pinaud avec Catherine Frot, Melan Omerta, Fatsah Bouyahmed, Olivia Côte, Marie Petiot, Vincent Dedienne et Serpentine Teyssier

Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959) de Jean Delannoy avec Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier, Robert Hirsch, Paul Frankeur, Michel Vitold, Camille Guérini, Serge Rousseau et Micheline Luccioni

On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter (1980) de Philippe de Broca avec Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Francis Perrin, Catherine Alric, Marc Dudicourt, Paulette Dubost et Roger Carel

Gosford Park (2001) de Robert Altman avec Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Camilla Rutherford, Charles Dance, Geraldine Somerville, Tom Hollander, Stephen Fry, Helen Mirren et Emily Watson

Meurtre à Hollywood (Sunset) (1988) de Blake Edwards avec Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Jennifer Edwards, Victoria Alperin et Patricia Hodge

Iron Claw (The Iron Claw) (2023) de Sean Durkin avec Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Holt McCallany, Lily James, Maura Tierney et Stanley Simons

Séries

La croisière s'amuse Saison 1

Une traversée de chien - L'Amour fou - Ami ou Ennemi - Farces et Attrapes - Une célébrité encombrante - Le Grand Air - Le docteur voit double - Le Grand Amour - Le Père du commandant - Monnaie de singe - La vie est belle au large - Tel est pris qui croyait prendre - Jeux de mains - Les Grandes Retrouvailles : première partie - Les Grandes Retrouvailles : deuxième partie - La Victoire en dansant - Le Gros Lot - Coupable, mais de quoi ? - Souvenirs Souvenirs - Il y a des jours comme ça - Qui comprend quelque chose à l'amour ? - Le commandant connaît la musique - Coup de folie - Ne comptez pas sur moi pour tomber amoureuse

Coffre à Catch

#148 : Bonne année 2024 à tout l'univers d'Agius ! - #149 : Zack Ryder : Woo Woo Woo, tu le sais ! - #150 : L'exceptionnel retour de Colby ! - #151 : Les adieux au catch de Tommy Dreamer ? - #152 : Tommy Dreamer enfin champion de la ECW !

Les Simpson Saison 1

Noël mortel - Bart le génie - L'Odyssée d'Homer - Simpsonothérapie - Terreur à la récré - Ste Lisa Blues - L'Abominable Homme des bois - Bart a perdu la tête - Marge perd la boule - L'Odyssée d'Homer - L'Espion qui venait de chez moi - Un clown à l'ombre - Une soirée d'enfer

Downton Abbey Saison 5

Tradition et Rébellion - Un vent de liberté - Le Bonheur d'être aimé - Révolution à Downton - Tout ce qui compte… - Étape par étape - Désillusions - Menaces et Préjugés - La Réconciliation

Castle Saison 4

Renaissance - Lame solitaire - Casse-tête - L'Empreinte d'une arme - L'Art de voler - Démons - Otages - Dans l'antre du jeu - Course contre la mort - Détache-moi

Kaamelott Livre IV

Tous les matins du monde première partie - Tous les matins du monde deuxième partie - Raison et Sentiments - Les Tartes aux fraises - Le Dédale - Les Pisteurs - Le Traître - La Faute première partie - La Faute deuxième partie - L’Ascension du Lion - Une vie simple - Le Privilégié - Le Bouleversé - Les Liaisons dangereuses - Les Exploités II - Dagonet et le Cadastre - Duel première partie - Duel deuxième partie - La Foi bretonne - Au service secret de Sa Majesté - La Parade - Seigneur Caius - L’Échange première partie - L’Échange deuxième partie - L’Échelle de Perceval - La Chambre de la reine - Les Émancipés - La Révoquée - La Baliste II - Les Bonnes - La Révolte III - Le Rapport - L’Art de la table - Les Novices - Les Refoulés - Les Tuteurs II - Le Tourment IV - Le Rassemblement du corbeau II - Le Grand Départ - L’Auberge rouge - Les Curieux : première partie - Les Curieux : deuxième partie - La Clandestine - Les Envahisseurs - La vie est belle - La Relève - Les Tacticiens : première partie - Les Tacticiens : deuxième partie - Drakkars ! - La Réponse - Unagi IV - La Permission - Anges et Démons - La Rémanence - Le Refuge - Le Dragon gris - La Potion de vivacité II - Vox populi III - La Sonde - La Réaffectation - La Poétique II : première partie - La Poétique II : deuxième partie

Affaires sensibles

Henri Martin, debout contre la guerre d’Indochine - 1923 : Germaine Berton : l’anarchiste qui tua pour venger Jaurès - Prince de Conty : où sont passés les lingots de l'épave? - De Paris à Dakar, le rallye du désert - Cannes 1987, Pialat et sa palme - Affaire Mis et Thiennot, la fin de l'énigme judiciaire ? - Agnès Le Roux, la disparition d’une héritière - Les mystères de Chevaline

The Crown Saison 6

Un engouement fanatique - Hors du temps

Le Voyageur Saison 2

La Forêt perchée - La tentation du mal

Alfred Hitchcock présente Saison 5, 6, 3, 7

Arthur - La Vengeance - Chantage - Pan! vous êtes mort

Spectacles

Concert du Nouvel An en direct du Musikverein, à Vienne (2024)

Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall (2011)

Sexe et jalousie (1993) de Marc Camoletti et Georges Folgoas avec Jean-Luc Moreau, Marie-Pierre Casey, Patrick Guillemin, Marie Lenoir et Bunny Godillot

Billy Cobham's Glass Menagerie (1981) live at Riazzino, Switzerland

Agents Are Forever : Danish National Symphony Orchestra (2020) avec Caroline Henderson

Bonté divine (2010) de Frédéric Lenoir et Louis-Michel Colla avec Jean-Loup Horwitz, Benoit Nguyen-Tat, Saïd Amadis et Roland Giraud

Livres

Kid Paddle, Tome 1 : Jeux de vilains de Midam

Détective Conan, Tome 20 de Gôshô Aoyama

Castle, Tome 1 : La dernière aube de Brian Michael Bendis, Kelly Sue DeConnick et Tom Raney

James Bond : Le guide officiel de 007 de Lee Pfeiffer et Dave Worrall

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Vietnam War - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, June 1968

Sourced from: http://natsmusic.net/articles_galaxy_magazine_viet_nam_war.htm

Transcript Below

We the undersigned believe the United States must remain in Vietnam to fulfill its responsibilities to the people of that country.

Karen K. Anderson, Poul Anderson, Harry Bates, Lloyd Biggle Jr., J. F. Bone, Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mario Brand, R. Bretnor, Frederic Brown, Doris Pitkin Buck, William R. Burkett Jr., Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby, John W. Campbell, Louis Charbonneau, Hal Clement, Compton Crook, Hank Davis, L. Sprague de Camp, Charles V. de Vet, William B. Ellern, Richard H. Eney, T. R. Fehrenbach, R. C. FitzPatrick, Daniel F. Galouye, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert M. Green Jr., Frances T. Hall, Edmond Hamilton, Robert A. Heinlein, Joe L. Hensley, Paul G. Herkart, Dean C. Ing, Jay Kay Klein, David A. Kyle, R. A. Lafferty, Robert J. Leman, C. C. MacApp, Robert Mason, D. M. Melton, Norman Metcalf, P. Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, John Myers Myers, Larry Niven, Alan Nourse, Stuart Palmer, Gerald W. Page, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Lawrence A. Perkins, Jerry E. Pournelle, Joe Poyer, E. Hoffmann Price, George W. Price, Alva Rogers, Fred Saberhagen, George O. Smith, W. E. Sprague, G. Harry Stine (Lee Correy), Dwight V. Swain, Thomas Burnett Swann, Albert Teichner, Theodore L. Thomas, Rena M. Vale, Jack Vance, Harl Vincent, Don Walsh Jr., Robert Moore Williams, Jack Williamson, Rosco E. Wright, Karl Würf.

We oppose the participation of the United States in the war in Vietnam.

Forrest J. Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Peter S. Beagle, Jerome Bixby, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Lyle G. Boyd, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Brand, Stuart J. Byrne, Terry Carr, Carroll J. Clem, Ed M. Clinton, Theodore R. Cogswell, Arthur Jean Cox, Allan Danzig, Jon DeCles, Miriam Allen deFord, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Thomas M. Disch, Sonya Dorman, Larry Eisenberg, Harlan Ellison, Carol Emshwiller, Philip José Farmer, David E. Fisher, Ron Goulart, Joseph Green, Jim Harmon, Harry Harrison, H. H. Hollis, J. Hunter Holly, James D. Houston, Edward Jesby, Leo P. Kelley, Daniel Keyes, Virginia Kidd, Damon Knight, Allen Lang, March Laumer, Ursula K. LeGuin, Fritz Leiber, Irwin Lewis, A. M. Lightner, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Katherine MacLean, Barry Malzberg, Robert E. Margroff, Anne Marple, Ardrey Marshall, Bruce McAllister, Judith Merril, Robert P. Mills, Howard L. Morris, Kris Neville, Alexei Panshin, Emil Petaja, J. R. Pierce, Arthur Porges, Mack Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joanna Russ, James Sallis, William Sambrot, Hans Stefan Santesson, J. W. Schutz, Robin Scott, Larry T. Shaw, John Shepley, T. L. Sherred, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Jerry Sohl, Norman Spinrad, Margaret St. Clair, Jacob Transue, Thurlow Weed, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Donald A. Wollheim.

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Super-Science Fiction    December 1958             cover by Kelly Freas

The Aliens Were Haters by Robert Silverberg

First Man in a Satellite by Charles Runyon

The Unique and Terrible Compulsion by Calvin Knox

Exiled from Earth by Richard Watson

Creature from Space by Harlon Ellison

The Utter Stranger by Alan E. Nourse

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Perilous Planets by Brian Aldiss Avon Books (1980) Perilous Planets is a collection of short stories by different authors. They are tenuously connected by the fact that they're set on alien worlds. In this book you'll find authors such as Robert Sheckley, Damon Knight, Norman Spinrad, Clifford D. Simak, Alan E. Nourse, E. C. Tubb, Frederik Pohl, and more. Special note: the books by Brian Aldiss that I've added recently are all in good condition except they are all owner inscribed and the rims have been taped for protection. By taping the rims (the spine and part of covers) the rim areas are darker than the rest of the covers. The spines are actually preserved because of this! The incredible cover is by artist Alex Ebel. . Overall Great Condition, Great Spine, Small Area Of Covers As Well As Spine Has Masking Tape On It, Binding Tight, Pages Look Great, Previous Owner's Name On Back Of Front Cover In Black Pen [Wyatt James] . . . #perilousplanets #brianaldiss #paperbacksciencefiction #sciencefiction #fiction #instabooks #bookstagram #instabookstagram #normanspinrad #bookcollector #clifforddsimak #science #damonknight #instabook #frederikpohl #bookishlove #bookish #robertsheckley #shortstories #alexebel #avon #scifiart #syfy #scifibooks #avonbooks #avonsciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CTzbNvBrJvi/?utm_medium=tumblr

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If you like classic science fiction, one of the genre’s best magazines can now be found online for free. Archive.org is now home to a collection of Galaxy Science Fiction, which published some of the genre’s best works, such as an early version of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man.

The collection contains 355 separate issues, ranging from 1950 through 1976. Open Culture notes that it’s not quite the entire run of the magazine, but it’s got plenty of material to keep fans occupied for years. It includes stories from science fiction legends such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Clifford Simak, and Theodore Sturgeon. There are also some underappreciated authors who deserve re-discovery, such as Kris Neville, Alan E. Nourse, or John Christopher. (Sadly, like most publications of this era, female SF authors were underrepresented.)

Galaxy Science Fiction was a digest magazine founded by editor Horace Leonard Gold, after the Second World War. During this time, the science fiction field was in flux. The scene’s biggest publication, Astounding Science Fiction, was starting to lose its edge, while American readers had more entertainment options, like radio, novels, or television...

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Spring!! To celebrate enjoy these John Parkinson Seventeenth Century Botanical Prints- One of Mosses and Lichen and the other of Ferns. From: Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris: or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English Ayre will permit to be noursed vp. with a kitchen garden of all manner of Herbes, rootes, & fruits, for meat or sauce vied with vs, and an orchard of all sort of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land. together with the right ordering, planting & preserving of them and their uses and virtues collected by Iohn Parkinson apothecary of London. London: printed by Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng at the signe of the starre on bread-street hill. Dimensions: 26 inches x 20 3/4 inches; sight 15 1/4 inches x 9 1/2 inches. John Parkinson, an English botanist, was buried Aug. 6, 1650, at the age of about 83. He was the official apothecary to King James I and the royal botanist for his successor, Charles I. Parkinson published two botanical works that make an interesting pair. The first book, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris (1629) is often considered the first purely horticultural book in England, meaning it is a book about gardens and flowers. Eleven years later, Parkinson published Theatrum Botanicum (1640), a massive compendium that is often called the last of the English herbals. An herbal, unlike a flora, is concerned with the medicinal properties of plants, and herbals had been the dominant form of botanical publication ever since Dioscorides in the 1st c. AD. I suppose it is not improbable that the same man could publish the last herbal and the first flora.

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If you like middle grade fiction (or can tolerate a kid narrator for the length of a novella), I have some recommendations:

Hidden Talents by David Lubar- the protagonists are kids at an "alternative school" (translation: one of the stops on the school to prison pipeline) who discover that the stuff they do that keeps getting them in trouble for reasons they can't understand... is actually latent superpowers. Think a "Louis Sachar's Holes, but with superpowers instead of a tragic curse".

The Girl with the Silver Eyes, by Willo Davis Roberts- our protagonist is a lonely bookworm with telekinesis and silver eyes. She discovers that there are other kids like her, with silver eyes and telekinesis, and goes out to try and find them. The powers in this one are heavily neurodivergence coded, and while the ending is a bit closer to Captain Robot Man than you might like, it's still very sweet and heartfelt.

Isaac Asimov Presents: Mutants has a bunch of short stories that fit the bill, though most of them are outright tragic- 'He That Hath Wings' by Edmond Hamilton, 'Second Sight' by Alan E. Nourse, 'The Children's Room' by Raymond F Jones, and 'Hail and Farewell' by Ray Bradbury are all excellent and haunting.

On reflection, you might want to try looking for literary SF about psychics/mutants/psychic mutants from the '40s-70s in general; if you can tolerate the general White Guys Named Steve-ness of it all, you're going to find a lot more "haunting disquisition on the human condition" than "and then CAPTAIN PUNCHGOOD did a BIG PUNCH".

it sucks so bad that basically every "people with powers" story out there is fucking superheroes. i dont want captain robot man i want edward lasereyes

[fromthesomewhere]

Women of Canada! - Women Who Died on Active Service

During the First World War, many Canadian women served the war effort through direct military service. This often meant roles maintaining supplies, driving ambulances, and serving as nurses and hospital administrators. Of those who served Canada in various wartime capacities, 66 women are listed as giving their lives during official military service in the WWI era. Most of these women served within the Canadian Army Medical Corps and the Canadian Army Nursing Service, but others with the Canadian Merchant Navy, the Canadian Military V.A.D., Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, the Newfoundland Voluntary Aid Detachment, and the British Red Cross Society. More on which women below served under which of these branches can be found on Veterans Affairs Canada’s page ‘Lest We Forget Her’. On this International Women’s Day, we invite our readers to take a moment to remember these 66 women who gave their lives in service of Canada during the First World War: 

Kennedy, Eliza - 04 September 1915 Munro, Mary Frances Elizabeth - 07 September 1915 Jaggard, Jessie Brown - 25 September 1915 Nourse, Grace Eleanor Boyd - 03 February 1916 Ross, Elsie Gertrude - 26 February 1916 Tupper, Addie Allen (Adruenna) - 09 December 1916 Garbutt, Sarah Ellen - 20 August 1917 Sparks, Letitia - 20 August 1917 Hunt, Myrtle Margaret - 16 January 1918 Davis, Lena Aloa - 21 February 1918 Kealy, Ida Lilian - 12 March 1918 Hannaford, Ida Durant - 14 March 1918 Whitely, Anna Elizabeth - 21 April 1918 Forneri, Agnes Florien - 24 April 1918 MacDonald, Katherine Maud - 19 May 1918 Wake, Gladys Maude Mary - 21 May 1918 Jarvis, Jessie - 23 May 1918 Lowe, Margaret - 28 May 1918 Baldwin, Dorothy Mary Yarwood - 30 May 1918 MacPherson, Agnes - 30 May 1918 Pringle, Eden Lyal - 30 May 1918 Fraser, Margaret Marjory - 27 June 1918 Douglas , Carola Josephine - 27 June 1918 Templeman, Jean - 27 June 1918 Stamers, Anna Irene - 27 June 1918 Sare, Gladys Irene - 27 June 1918 Sampson, Mary Belle - 27 June 1918 McLean, Rena - 27 June 1918 McKenzie, Mary Agnes - 27 June 1918 McDiarmid, Jessie Mabel - 27 June 1918 Gallaher, Minnie Katherine - 27 June 1918 Fortescue, Margaret Jane - 27 June 1918 Follette, Minnie Asenath - 27 June 1918 Dussault, Alexina - 27 June 1918 Campbell, Christina - 27 June 1918 Ross, Ada Janet - 12 July 1918 Oliphant, Mary Elizabeth - 09 September 1918 Johnstone, Jane  - 09 September 1918 Twist, Dorothy Pearson - 26 September 1918 Green, Matilda Ethel - 09 October 1918 Mellett, Henrietta - 10 October 1918 Alpaugh, Agnes - 12 October 1918 Baker, Miriam Eastman - 17 October 1918 Rogers, Nellie Grace - 19 October 1918 Hennan, Victoria Belle - 23 October 1918 Frederickson, Christine - 28 October 1918 Alport (Roberts), Jean Ogilvie - 03 November 1918 Bartlett, Bertha - 03 November 1918 McKay, Evelyn Verrall - 04 November 1918 MacEachen, Rebecca Helen - 16 November 1918 Dagg, Ainslie St Clair - 29 November 1918 Jenner, Lenna Mae - 12 December 1918 Bolton, Grace Errol - 16 February 1919 MacIntosh, Rebecca - 07 March 1919 Champagne, Ernestine - 24 March 1919 King, Jessie Nelson - 04 April 1919 Baker, Margaret Elisa - 30 May 1919 McDougall, Agnes - 18 July 1919 Donaldson (Petty), Gertrude - 29 July 1919 Grant, Grace Mabel - 12 September 1919 Trusdale, Alice Louise - 12 September 1919 MacLeod, Margaret Christine - 20 December 1919 McGinnis, Mary Geraldine - 10 February 1920 Cumming. Isobel Katherine - 04 February 1921 Hanna, Bessie Maud - 05 September 1921 Green, Caroline Graham - 04 April 1922

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“It certainly must be a dream. It is incredible to believe that I, who yesterday was grubbing my way through Dante’s ‘Divine Comedia,’ back in sleepy old Princeton, should now be sitting ‘somewhere in France,’ an officer in the French Army, Service Artillery, Division d'Automobiles, Section Sanitaire.”

--Princeton University alum Robert Nourse, Class of 1917, July 26, 1917

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Old Man Yells At Spaceship Podcast episode index

Episode 1 - The Doorway - Evelyn E Smith

Episode 2 - A Bad Day For Vermin - Keith Laumer

Episode 3 - Dream World - R A Lafferty

Episode 4 - Time Enough At Last - Lynn Venable

Episode 5 - The Carnivore - Katherine MacLean (as G A Morris)

Episode 6 - Homesick - Lynn Venable

Episode 7 - I'll Kill You Tomorrow - Helen Huber

Episode 8 - Flowering Evil - Margaret St. Clair

Episode 9 - There is a Reaper - Charles V. De Vet

Episode 10 - All Cats Are Gray - Andre Norton (as Andrew North)

Episode 11 - Seven Day Terror - R A Lafferty

Episode 12 - Second Landing - F L Wallace

Episode 13 - The Vilbar Party - Evelyn E. Smith

Episode 14 - Double-Cross - Frederik Pohl (as James Mac Creigh)

Episode 15 - The Polite People of Pudibundia - R A Lafferty

Episode 16 - Piety - Margaret St. Clair

Episode 17 - They Wouldn't Dare - Samuel Mines

Episode 18 - Native Son - TD Hamm

Episode 19 - The Dragon Slayers - Frank Banta

Episode 20 - The Dancers - Margaret St. Clair (as Wilton Hazzard)

Episode 21 - End as a World - F L Wallace

Episode 22 - Gramp - Charles V De Vet

Episode 23 - A Hitch in Time - Frederik Pohl (as James Mac Creigh)

Episode 24 - Donkeys to Bald Pate - Samuel Mines

Episode 25 - Handyman, The Connoisseur, The Happy Homicide - Frank Banta

Episode 26 - Rabbits Have Long Ears - Lawrence F Willard

Episode 27 - A Matter of Magnitude - Al Sevcik

Episode 28 - Circus - Alan E Nourse

Episode 29 - The Ambassador's Pet - Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg (as Alexander Blade)

Episode 30 - When Whirlybirds Call - Frank Banta

Episode 31 - In The Garden - R A Lafferty

Episode 32 - The Stroller - Margaret St Clair

Episode 33 - The Vanderlark - Margaret St Clair

Episode 34 - Not Fit For Children - Evelyn E Smith

Episode 35 - A Matter of Size - Samuel Mines

Episode 36 - The Non-Electric Bug - E Mittleman

Episode 37 - Droozle - Frank Banta

Episode 38 - Final Glory - Henry Hasse

Episode 39 - Doorstep - Keith Laumer

Episode 40 - The Luminous Blonde - Hayden Howard

Episode 41 - Lost Art - G K Hawk

Episode 42 - We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly - Roger Kuykendall

Episode 43 - Inconstancy - Roger D. Aycock (as Roger Dee)

Episode 44 - Beyond the Door - Philip K Dick

Episode 45 - $1,000 a Plate - Jack McKenty

Episode 46 - The Autumn After Next - Margaret St. Clair

Episode 47 - The Sloth of Kruvny - Vern Fearing

Episode 48 - A Little Journey - Ray Bradbury

Episode 49 - Two Timer, Earthmen Bearing Gifts, Keep Out - Frederic Brown

Episode 50 - The Altar at Midnight - CM Kornbluth

Episode 51 - The Unwilling Professor - Arthur Porges

Episode 52 - Pythias - Frederik Pohl

Episode 53 - Sign of Life - Dave Dryfoos

Episode 54 - Beyond Lies the Wub - Philip K. Dick

Episode 55 - Barnstormer - Tom W Harris

Episode 56 - The Crowded Colony - Jerome Bixby (as Jay B. Drexel)

Episode 57 Post: The Night Wire - H F Arnold

Episode 58 Post: The Blonde from Barsoom - Robert F Young

Episode 59 Post: And All The Earth A Grave - Carroll Mather Capps (as CC MacApp)

Episode 60 Post: The Stranger - Gordon R Dickson

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Penguin Science Fiction Brian W. Aldiss, editor  1963 edition

(1) “The Monkey Wrench” by Gordon R. Dickson Cary Harmon visits his old acquaintance from student days in a remote area of the Venusian Lonesome Mountains just before a blizzard arrives. (2) “The First Men” by Howard Fast Jean Arbalaid, prominent child psychologist, is interested in human potential. (3) “Counterfeit” by Alan E. Nourse The exploratory mission is on its return trip and is just a week from Earth, when out of the blue Donald Shaver suddenly gets ill and dies. (4) “ The Greater Thing” by Tom Godwin First line: “The thing in the dead city was conceived the night the city died.” (5) “Build Up Logically” by Howard Schoenfeld “Frank put his hand out in front of him and moved it back and forth a couple of times, inventing the rabbit.” (6) “The Liberation of Earth” by William Tenn (Pseudonym of Philip Klass) “On a Tuesday in August, the ship appeared in the sky over France in a part of the world then known as Europe.” (7) “An Alien Agony” by Harry Harrison Trader John Garth has spent a year among the Weskers, the only human on Wesker’s World, when he hears the sound of another ship coming in to land. (8) “The Tunnel Under the World” by Frederik Pohl Guy Burckhardt has woken up screaming from a dream of a violent explosion. It felt very real. Well written story (9) “The Store of the Worlds” by Robert Sheckley Tompkins is the proprietor of the Store of the Worlds: “He sat in an old rocking chair, and perched on the back of it was a blue and green parrot. There was one other chair in the store and a table. On the table was a rusted hypodermic.” Good story. (10) “Jokester” by Isaac Asimov Noel Meyerhof has just finished telling a joke to the machine when he is interrupted by Timothy Whistler, a senior analyst. Good story. (11) “Pyramid” by Robert Abernathy The six limbed thagatha have returned to Earth after four hundred years looking for a means to rectify a problem brought back from their previous expedition. They note some bipeds living in shelters of skins and fabric. Good story. (12) “The Forgotten Enemy” by Arthur C. Clarke Professor Millward is the last man alive in a frozen London.

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The other day I got into a brief discussion of cover mentions throughout the history of the science fiction magazine.

Of course we all focus on the cover image first, but unless it is a really extraordinary sample of the genre’s art (between BEMs and brass brassieres it’s a bit tough to hit “extraordinary”) the very next thing we look at are the names of the authors to be found within.

To the first time buyer, these mean little to nothing.  To the aficionado however,  they can serve as an instant assessment of the expected quality of the issue.  Lots of top names, stands a chance of being an excellent issue.  No recognizable authors – well, either the title is on its way out (the editors are scraping the bottom of the submission barrel) or – we’re about to discover the next great thing to come down the genre pike.  This latter possibility can only be found in the “vanishingly small probability” box, and represents more of a hope for the reader than a real possibility.

I decided to take a look at how the various magazine titles handled this bit of self-promotion.  I then decided to use 1953 as my exemplar year.

Why 1953?  Because 1953 was THE banner year for science fiction and fantasy magazines.  And because the frenzy surrounding this boom year somewhat resembles what we’ve been seeing for the past several years – an explosion of electronic magazine titles, each of which carefully lists it’s available contents.

1953 was also a year in which the genre was changing;  more markets meant that more authors could stretch, had a few more places they could pitch to.  Many of the “old guard” were still publishing, and a lot of familiar names had become firmly established.  The short story was still the dominant form for the genre and thus, it’s at least as good a year as any other to pick on.

(Wikipedia only lists 219 SF novels published in 1953.  There were undoubtedly a handful of others, but this is a pretty good indicator of how few novels were published, as opposed to short fiction in the magazines.)

Here’s a gallery, displaying the magazine covers from 1953, in alphabetical order by magazine title.

AMAZING STORIES

Published by: Ziff-Davids Publishing Company Edited by: Howard Browne Format: Pulp

Charles Creighton, Mallory Storm, Chester Geier, Guy Archette, E. K. Jarvis, Paul Lohrman (2), Jack Lait, Lee Mortimer, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, H.L. Gold (2), Theodore Sturgeon, Harriet Frank, Walter M. Miller Jr., Kendall Foster, Henry Kuttner, Algiss Budrys, R. W. Krepps, Richard Matheson, Robert Skeckley (2), Vern Fearing, William P. McGivern, Wallace West, Evan Hunter 2/26

ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION

Published by:  Street & Smith Publications Edited by: John W. Campbell, Jr. Format: Digest

Poul Anderson (3), H. Beam Piper, John J. McGuire, John Loxmith, Hal Clement, John E. Arnold, Lee Correy, Mark Clifton (2), Alex Apostildes (2), Tom Godwin, Raymond F. Jones

0/11

AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER

Published by: Avon Novels Inc, & Stratford Novels Inc. Edited by: Sol Cohen Format:  Digest

Arthur C. Clarke (2), John Jakes (2), Alfred J. Coppel Jr., John Christopher, Milton Lesser (2), Jack Vance

0/9

BEYOND FANTASY FICTION

Published by:  Galaxy Publishing Edited by:  Horace L. Gold Format:  Digest

Ted Sturgeon (2), Damon Knight, T. L. Sherred, Jerome Bixby (2), Joe E. Dean, Richard Matheson (2), Roger Dee, Frank M. Robinson, James McConnell, Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, T. R. Cogswell, Philip K. Dick, John Wyndham, Wyman Guin, Richard Deeming, Algis Budrys, Franklin Gregory, Zenna Henderson, Ted Reynolds

1/23

COSMOS SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY MAGAZINE

Published by Star Publications Edited by Laurence M. Jannifer Format:  Digest

Poul Anderson, Carl Jacobi (2), Philip K. Dick, Evan Hunter (2), Ross Rocklynne, John Jakes, Bertram Chandler (2), Robert S. Richardson (2), B. Traven, N. R., Jack Vance

0/15

DYNAMIC SCIENCE FICTION

Published by: Columbia Publications Edited by: Robert A. W. Lowndes Format: Pulp

Cyril Judd, Raymond Z. Gallun, James Blish, Michael Sherman, Algis Budrys

0/5*

FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES

Published by:  All Fiction Field (imprint of Popular Publications) Edited by:  Mary Gnaedinger Format:  Pulp

Talbot Mundy, H. Rider Haggard, Ayn Rand, Kafka

1/4

FANTASTIC

Published by: Ziff-Davis Publications Edited by: Howard Browne Format: Digest

Samuel Hopkins Adams, Joseph Shallit, Kris Neville, Edgar Allan Poe, John Collier, Billy Rose, B. Traven, Stephen Vincent Benet, William P. McGivern (3), Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, John Wyndham (2), Esther Carlson, Evelyn Waugh, Ralph Robin (3), Walter M. Miller Jr., Robert Sheckley (2), Richard Matheson, Frank M. Robinson, Rog Phillips, Robert Bloch

2/27

FANTASTIC ADVENTURES

Published by: Ziff-Davis Publications Edited by: Howard Browne Format: Pulp

Frank McGiver, Peter Dakin, E. K. Jarvis, Mallory Storm, Ivar Jorgensen, Alexander Blade

1/6

FANTASTIC STORY MAGAZINE

  Published by:Best Books Edited by: Samuel Mines Format: Pulp

Edmond Hamilton, Murray Leinster (3), L. Sprague de Camp (4), Thomas L. McClary, Leigh Brackett, Henry Kuttner, Carl Jacobi, Horace L. Gold, Jerry Shelton, Ed Weston, Kevin Kent, Jack Townsley Rogers, Frederic Brown, Cleve Cartmill, Manly Wade Wellman, Otis Adelbert Kline, Roscoe Clark, Robert Moore Williams

1/23

FANTASTIC UNIVERSE SCIENCE FICTION

Published by: King-Sized Publications Edited by: Sam Merwin Format: Digest

Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Belknap Long, E. Hoffman Price, Evan Hunter, Irving Cox, William Campbell Gault, A. Bertram Chandler (2), Walt Sheldon, Clifford D. Simak, Poul Anderson, Richard Matheson, Eric Frank Russell, Jean Jaques Ferrat, William F. Temple, Wallace West, C. M. Kornbluth, William Morrison, Philip K. Dick, Evelyn E. Smith

1/21

THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION

Published by: Mercury Press Edited by: Anthony Boucher Format: Digest

Fritz Leiber, Mabel Seeley, John Wyndham, Idris Seabright (2), Robert Louis Stevenson, R. Bretnor (2), L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt, Oliver la Farge, J. T. McIntosh, Wilson Tucker, Richard Matheson, Anthony Boucher (2), Kris Neville, Chad Oliver, Esther Carlson, Alan Nelson, William Bernard Ready, Poul Anderson, Ward Moore, John D. MacDonald, Edward W. Ludwig, Arthur Porges, Manly Wade Wellman, Winona McClintic, Tom McMorrow Jr.,

4/29

FANTASY MAGAZINE/FANTASY FICTION

Published by: Future Publications Edited by: Lester Del Rey Format: Digest

Robert E. Howard (2), John Wyndham, (Philip K) Dick, Elliot, Fritch, (H.B.) Fyfe, H. Harrison, MacLean, L. Sprague de Camp, Pletcher Pratt

0/10

FUTURE SCIENCE FICTION

Published by: Standard Publications Edited by: Robert A. W. Lowndes Format: Pulp

John Wyndham, Poul Anderson, William Tenn, Gordon R. Dickson, Kriss Neville, Robert Sheckley

0/6

GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION

Published by: Galaxy Publishing Edited by: Horace L. Gold Format: Digest

Philip K. Dick, Damon Knight, H. L. Gold, Willy Ley (3)*, F, L. Wallace, J. T. McIntosh, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov

0/10

GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS

Published by: Galaxy Publishing Edited by: Horace L. Gold Format: Digest

This “magazine” Doesn’t really count as these are single novel publications.  However, for completeness’ sake:  John Taine, Isaac Asimov, J. Leslie Mitchell, James Blish (2), Lewis Padgett*, Edmond Hamilton

0/7

IF WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION

Published by: Digest Publications Edited by: Larry Shaw Format: Digest

Walter M. Miller Jr., Ivar Jorgenson, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Vance, Walt Sheldon, H. B. Fyfe, James Blish, William Tenn, Mark Wolf

0/9

ORBIT SCIENCE FICTION

Published by: Hanro Corporation Edited by: Donald A. Wollheim Format: Digest

Richard English, August Derleth (2), Mack Reynolds, Charles Beaumont (2), Paul Brandts, H. B. Fyfe, John Christopher, James Causey

0/10

OTHER WORLDS

Published by: Clark Publications, later Bell Publications Edited by: Raymond A. Plamer & Bea Mahaffey Format: Digest

H. B. Fyfe, Richard S. Shaver (2), L Sprague de Camp (3), Eric Frank Russell, (William F.) Temple, (Robert Moore) Williams, Edward L. Smith, (Joe) Gibson, (Raymond A.) Palmer, S. J. Byrne, Robert Bloch, James McConne

0/15

PLANET STORIES

Published by: Love Romances Edited by: Jack O’Sullivan Format: Pulp

Bryan Berry (4*), Roger Dee, Gardner F. Fox, Robert Moore Williams, Ross Rocklynne, William Tenn, Ray Gallun, B. Curtis, Gordon R. Dickson, Hayden Howard, Stanley Mullen, Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury, Fox B. Holden

1/17

ROCKET STORIES

Published by: Space Publications Edited by: Lester Del Rey, Harry Harrison Format: Digest

(?) Bernard, (Henry) De Rosso, (John) Jakes, (Milton) Lesser (2), (Poul) Anderson, (Algis) Budrys, (?) Cox, (James) Gunn, (A. F. ?) Loomis, (?) Mullen

0/12

SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES

Published by: Space Fiction/Future Publications Edited by: Lester Del Rey, Harry Harrison Format: Digest

(William) Morrison (2, (Alan E.) Nourse, (George O.) Smith, (Erik) Van Lhin* (5), (Chad) Oliver, (Algis) Budrys, (Raymond Z.) Gallun, (Theodore R.) Cogswell, (Robert) Sheckley, (Poul) Anderson, (Irving E.) Cox (Jr.) (2), (Samuel) Moskowitz, (Richard) Snodgrass, C. M. Kornbluth

0/20

SCIENCE FICTION PLUS

Published by: Gernsback Publications Edited by: Sam Moskowitz Format: Slick

Eando Binder (2), Hugo Gernsback (2), Philip Jose Farmer (2), John Scott Campbell, Dr. Donald H. Menzel, Richard Tooker, Clifford D. Simak (2), Raymond Z. Gallun, Frank Belknap Long, F. L. Wallace, Robert Bloch, Harry Walton, Murray Leinster (2), Pierre Devaux, H. G. Viet, Gustav Albrecht, Frank R. Paul, Chad Oliver, Thomas Calvert McClary, Jack Williamson, Eric Frank Russell (2), Harry Bates, James H. Schmitz

0/29

SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY

Published by: Double-Action Magazines Edited by: Charles D. Hornig, Robert A. W. Lowndes Format: Pulp

Poul Anderson, Philip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Milton Lesser

0/4

SCIENCE FICTION STORIES

Published by: Columbia Publications Edited by: Robert A. W. Lowndes Format: Digest

Poul Anderson, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert Sheckley, Algis Budrys, Philip K. Dick, Noel Loomis, M.C. Pease

0/7

SCIENCE STORIES

Published by: Clark Publishing, Bell Publishing Edited by: Raymond A. Palmer, Bea Mahaffey Format: Digest

Jack Williamson, John Bloodstone, S. J. Byrne, T. P. Caravan, Mack Reynolds, Edward Wellen, Richard Dorot

0/7

SPACE SCIENCE FICTION

Published by: Space Publications Edited by: Lester Del Rey Format: Digest

H. Beam Piper, (John) Christopher, (William) Morrison (2), Damon Knight, T. L. Sherred, Lester Del Rey, Poul Anderson

0/8

SPACE STORIES

Published by: Standard Magazines Edited by: Samuel Mines Format: Pulp

Leigh Brackett, William Morrison, Sam Merwin Jr.

1/3

SPACEWAY STORIES OF THE FUTURE

Published by: Fantasy Publishing Co Edited by: ? Format: Digest

Only a movie title is listed.

STARTLING STORIES

Published by: Better Publications Edited by: Samuel Mines Format: Pulp

Damon Knight, Murray Leinster (2), George O. Smith, Sam Merwin Jr (3)., Chad Oliver, Kendall Foster Crossen, Willy Ley, Fletcher Pratt, Noel Loomis, Philip Jose Farmer, Theodore Sturgeon, Edmond Hamilton

0/15

THRILLING WONDER STORIES

Published by: Beacon/Better/Standard Magazines Edited by: Samuel Mines Format: Pulp

L. Sprague de Camp, Kendall Foster Crossen (3), Damon Knight, Katherine MacLean, Wallace West, R. J. McGregor, George O. Smith, Dwight V. Swain

1/10

TOPS IN SCIENCE FICTION

Published by: Love Romances Edited by: Jack O’Sullivan, Malcolm Reiss Format: Pulp

(Ray) Bradbury, Leigh Brackett (2), (Robert) Abernathy, (Hugh Frazier) Parker

TWO COMPLETE SCIENCE-ADVENTURE BOOKS

Published by:Wings Publishing Edited by: Katherine Daffron Format: Pulp

Like The Galaxy SF Novel, these “magazines” only published two full length novels, so it doesn’t really fit the standard pulp magazine cover listings thing.  However –

James Blish, Vargo Statten, Killian Houston Brunner, Bryan Berry, Poul Anderson, John D. MacDonald

0/6

UNIVERSE SCIENCE FICTION

Published by: Bell Publications, Palmer Publications Edited by: Raymond A. Plamer, Bea Mahaffey Format: Digest

Theodore Sturgeon, Murray Leinster, Nelson Bond, Robert Bloch, William T. Powers (2), William Campbell Gault, Gordon R. Dickson (2), Mark Clifton, Sylvia Jacobs, Roger Flint Young, Poul Anderson, (Isaac Asimov, (L. Sprague) de Camp, (Eando) Binder, F. L. Wallace, George H. Smith

1/18

VORTEX SCIENCE FICTION

Published by: Specific Fiction Edited by: Chester Whitehorn Format: Digest

(Nobody listed on the cover, probably owing to the fact that this was a terrible magazine.)

WEIRD TALES

Published by: Weird Tales Inc Edited by: Dorothy McIllwraith Format: Digest

Everil Worrell, Joseph Payne Brennan, Leah Bodine Drake, August Derleth (2), (Manly Wade) Wellman, C.(lark) A.(shton) Smith

2/6

WONDER STORY ANNUAL

Published by: Best Books Edited by: ? Format: Pulp

Jack Williamson, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Henry Kuttner, Isaac Asimov

0/5

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Text markup key:  A bolded name is an author who still resonates today (at least in my estimation); italics indicate a pseudonym – sometimes a house name, sometimes not; a number in ellipses indicated that the author was cover mentioned more than once during the year’s run.

The numbers following the names related the ration of female/male mentions for the year’s run.  The best that can be said about this is that Space Stories managed to achieve 33%, while the majority of the magazines featured no female authors.

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Thirty Eight different titles, if we include serious name changes:

Amazing Stories, Astounding Science Fiction, Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader, Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine, Dynamic Science Fiction, Famous Fantastic Mysteries,Fantastic Adventures, Fantastic*, Fantastic Story, Fantastic Universe, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction*, Future Science Fiction, Galaxy Science Fiction, Galaxy Science Fiction Novels, If Worlds of Science Fiction, Orbit Science Fiction, Other Worlds, Planet Stories, Rocket Stories, Science Fiction Adventures, Science Fiction Plus, Science Fiction Quarterly, Science Fiction Stories, Science Stories*, Space Science Fiction, Space Stories, Spaceway, Startling Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Tops in Science Fiction, Two Complete Science-Adventure Books, Universe Science Fiction, Vortex Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Wonder Story Annual. (*This was a title change) (and I’ve got 32 of the 38 first issues in my personal collection!)

Phew!

Incidentally, if you’d purchased all of these at the newsstand back in the day, it would have set you back a grand total of $55.80.  Adjusted for inflation, it would be a bit over $500 bucks today.  That’s a bit low.  There are 176 issues in question and current asking price for a digest magazine on the stands these days is $7.99.  At that price, these issues would have set you back about $1400.00.  This suggests that things really were cheaper back then!  (It’s also a lot easier to scrape up 25 cents looking for pennies on the street than it is to find $7.99….)

Beyond anything else, I simply can not imagine what it must have been like to be standing in front of the racks of a 1953 news shop.  During they heyday of my purchasing magazines from news shops, I had Amazing, F&SF, Fantastic, Galaxy, If, Analog, Odyssey, Galileo, and a handful of reprint mags to choose from, as well as a number of “graphic” magazines like Heavy Metal and “media” magazines like Star Warp.  I’d have been overwhelmed and terribly frustrated to find 38 different titles – I wouldn’t be able to choose which ones to spend my nickles on!

Truth be told, though, the regularity of these magazines was anything but regular.  If you averaged out their production over twelve months, there’d only be 15 titles to choose from at any given time.

No doubt quality suffered to some degree, but the chances of finding good stories was also increased.

Note, interestingly, that only 45 percent of these titles include the identifier “science fiction” in their name.  Among those that don’t include “science fiction”, seven consist of a descriptor and the word “stories”:  Amazing, Planet, Rocket, Science, Space, Startling, Thrilling Wonder, and two a descriptor plus “story” – Fantastic and Wonder.

I think it safe to say that the majority of magazines back in 1953 still felt the need to be very specific about what they were offering readers.  The cover image was apparently not quite enough, though I’m sure they worked hand-in-hand:  the outre image would catch your eye and the properly worded title would confirm your suspicions:  rocketships plus “Amazing” equals “science fiction”.  (Anyone seeing a scantily clad “space babe” and hoping for titillation was going to be sorely disappointed, and unlikely to be interested in anything “science stories”.)

Those two elements were probably believed to be sufficient come-ons to new customers, none of whom had a computer or databases to consult.  (In fact, whether or not you ever even saw a particular title on the newsstands was often hit or miss:  if the magazine distributor didn’t cover a particular territory (or deliver to that territory that month), you’d never see the issue(s).

But then, most of the magazines also went ahead and put two other items on their covers.  Frequently a statement about the contents was made -All New Stories!- and the title and author of at least one story listed on the table of contents.

I find it interesting that they felt a need to proclaim “All Stories Complete!”  “All New Fiction!” and even “A Selection of the Best Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction, new and old.”  This was of course due to the fact that there were numerous reprint magazines on the stands (Famous Fantastic Mysteries among them) and woe to the reader who spent that hard-earned quarter, only to discover contents they’d already read!

Another thing regularly stuck on the cover of these ‘zines was a sort of sub-title:  Strange Adventures on Other Worlds…Preview of the Future…Stories of the Future…Science Fiction…Best in Fantasy….

If you stand back and take a look at all of the covers shown previously, you may notice that there seem to be two general format layouts – “framed” and “unframed”, and further that the unframed titles break down into two sub-groups – boxes or no boxes.

Framed layouts present the cover image, untouched, and surround it with (usually) an inverted ‘L’ shaped border (Galaxy, Space Stories), while unframed titles print a full-sized cover image and slap text directly over the image.  Some of these restrict the listing of contents or highlighted story in an opaque box (which is printed over the image).

It seems that two different schools of design thought were expressing themselves.  Both have advantages:  unframed present a larger image, framed present one that lets you see everything, no textual interruptions, please, but are small in area.

Also note that 1953 was a year of transition for magazine format:  some of the titles shown were published in “pulp” format (about 9 inches tall), such as Two Complete Science-Adventure Tales and Fantastic Adventures, while most had or were switching to the familiar digest (about 7 inches tall) format – such as Fantastic Universe and Galaxy.

The larger format almost exclusively utilized an unframed layout, while many of the digests went with the framed format, though not exclusively.  Notably, Amazing Stories seems to be all over the place.

Now, with all that being said…why’d they put those names on the cover?

These magazines had three basic markets they were trying to reach – the educated fan, the fan who didn’t know they were a fan, the casual reader.

The publishers didn’t really have to worry about the educated fan too much;  chances were they were a subscriber, or belonged to a club that subscribed, or had fellow fans who shared issues around.  Fan readers of SF&F were always hungry for more and needed no other motivation than “the new issue is on the stands” to go and seek it out.

Further, this kind of consumer had already developed their tastes and would have been pretty familiar with the regularly published authors and those who were considered to be headliners.  Any given name on the cover stood a 50-50 chance of attracting or deterring that reader.  You could get a lot for a quarter and a dime back then – almost a beer, almost a movie ticket; Mark Watney would probably like to know that ten pounds of potatoes cost the same as a magazine.

I ponder the wisdom of a promotional campaign that runs the risk of turning your potential customer off, up to fifty percent of the time.

On the other hand, publishers, at least in regards to this demographic, were probably counting on a few other things as well:  most fans were rabid fans by necessity.  Even if every single author in a given issue was disliked, there was still the editorial and the letter column (often worth the price of admission alone), whatever other features might be included and, of course, the cover, along with the interior illustrations.  (Remember those?)  Having probably already been through the demise of many prior titles, the experienced fan back then probably had a well-honed sense of historical preservation.  All of which would tend to encourage them to ignore front cover unpleasantness.

One thing is for sure though:  this segment of the market didn’t have to be sold.  They were already bought and paid for.  The only competition a magazine faced with this particular buyer was whether or not a competing title was more “attractive” this month.  Which suggests that one purpose of the names on the cover was to play one-ups-manship with the other titles.

This then leaves us with two segments – the unrealized fan and the casual reader.

The only difference between these two market segments is that the unrealized fan reader might have heard of an author or two.  I stress might, since the novels they might have been exposed to were few and far between and no one was advertising SF magazines on television or radio, nor even in the mass-circulation magazines of the day.  You weren’t going to see Isaac Asimov on a Wheaties box (though this might not be a bad idea…), Jack Parr wasn’t interviewing Ray Bradbury and the movies they might have caught rarely, if ever, mentioned the origin of their script.

Space Patrol, Tom Corbett, Tales of Tomorrow (ended this year), some fans might have caught Atom Squad, some kids were maybe watching Johnny Jupiter, Rod Brown was competing with Tom, and it would be several years before Science Fiction Theater, The Twighlight Zone and Men Into Space would grace the small screen;  these 1953 television shows did little to elevate the profile of the science fiction author.

Likewise, radio (still a popular medium) wasn’t producing much of serious fan interest either:  Dimension X had been off the air for a couple of years, and it would be a couple more before X Minus One would air (both prominently featured stories largely drawn from Astounding Science Fiction).  The radio companion for Space Patrol was airing, but, again, any author involved probably tried to keep as low a profile as possible.

The only real benefit any of the magazines might have derived from these other media might have been creating the initial interest in the subject matter.  Given the right circumstances, it is entirely possible that a consumer walking past a newsstand would make the connection between a television show featuring outer space and the image of a rocketship on the cover of one of the magazines.

This works, potentially, for the unrealized fan, though it begs a question:  why didn’t any of the magazines attempt to capture this television show audience with various forms of tie-in?  (Tom Corbett Isn’t the ONLY Space Cadet.  We’ve got space cadets in every issue!  A New Short Story by the author of the latest Tales of Tomorrow episode!)  It could be suggested that most of SF on television back in the day was focused on “kids”, and that the magazines were going after an older audience, but most of the magazines on sale were perceived, at least  by the general public, as being kid-stuff too.  I can imagine a well-meaning parent, noting their child’s interest in Space Cadets, picking up a copy of Universe, or Science Fiction Plus, or Science Fiction Adventures (check out the cover art) as an attempt to support the kid’s interest.  But then again, we’re talking about an era that generally despised science fiction, so it’s more likely that mom or dad would be scheduling homework time during Corbett’s 15 minute episodes….

The casual reader…the only thing I can imagine that would attract them to an SF pulp (or digest) would be the cover art, perhaps reinforced by one of the come-ons.  But certainly not the names.

This of course brings us back full circle.  It’s pretty well established that the names on the cover did little to help market these titles.  Existing fans knew the titles and would pick them up regardless of who was featured;  unrealized fans could make no informed judgement about the content, and the casual reader would be attracted by art and possibly blurbs.

So why?  Why go to the trouble to select the names, why the belief that doing so was beneficial?  There’s probably only two reasons:  tradition (magazines had been printing the contents on the cover from the beginning) and ego boo:  ego boo for the authors (who were getting paid very little and had only two sources of fan interaction – letters and conventions.  Not to mention wanting to keep valued authors on the submission hook.  And ego boo for the editors and publishers who got to brag among themselves and play a game of one upsmanship.

So what have we got?  Here’s the list, most cover mentions to least, in alphabetical order.  There are quite a few names we still engage with these days…and quite as many we have forgotten.

14 Anderson Poul 11 de Camp L. Sprague  8 Leinster Murray  7 Dick Philip K., 7 Sheckley Robert  6 Asimov Isaac, Budrys Algis, Matheson Richard, Morrison William, Sturgeon Theodore, Wyndham John  5 Berry Bryan, Blish James, Bloch Robert, Brackett Leigh, Bradbury Ray, Crossen Kendall Foster, Gallun Raymond Z., Knight Damon, Lesser Milton, Lhin Erik Van,  4 Chandler A. Bertram, Clarke Arthur C., Derleth August, Dickson Gordon R., Gold Horace L., Hunter Evan, Jakes John, Ley Willy, McGivern William P., Merwin Jr Sam, Oliver Chad, Russell Eric Frank  3 Binder Eando, Christopher John, Clifton Mark, Cox Irving, Farmer Philip Jose, Fyfe H. B., Hamilton Edmond, Jacobi Carl, Kuttner Henry, Miller Jr. Walter M., Neville Kris, Robin Ralph, Simak Clifford D., Smith George O., Tenn William, Vance Jack, Wallace F L., Wellman Manly Wade, West Wallace, Williams Robert Moore, Williamson Jack,  2 Apostildes Alex, Beaumont Charles, Bixby Jerome, Boucher Anthony, Bretnor R., Byrne S. J., Carlson Esther, Cogswell Theodore R., Dee Roger, Gault William Campbell, Gernsback Hugo, Heinlein Robert, Howard Robert E., Jarvis E. K., Jorgensen Ivar, Kornbluth C. M., Lohrman Paul, Long Frank Belknap, Loomis Noel, MacDonald John D., McIntosh J. T., Mullen Stanley, Piper H. Beam, Powers William T., Pratt Fletcher, Reynolds Mack, Richardson Robert S., Robinson Frank M., Rocklynne Ross, Seabright Idris, Shaver Richard S., Sheldon Walt, Sherred T. L., Storm Mallory, Temple William F., Traven B.,  1 Abernathy Robert, Adams Samuel Hopkins, Albrecht Gustav, Archette Guy, Arnold John E., Bates Harry, Benet Stephen Vincent, Bernard (?), Bester Alfred, Blade Alexander, Bloodstone John, Bond Nelson, Brandts Paul, Brennan Joseph Payne, Brown Frederic, Brunner Killian Houston, Campbell John Scott, Caravan T. P., Cartmill Cleve, Causey James, Clark Roscoe, Clement, Hal, Collier John, Coppel Jr. Alfred J., Correy Lee, Cox (?), Creighton Charles, Curtis B., Dakin Peter, De Rosso Henry, Dean Joe E., Deeming Richard, Del Rey Lester, Devaux Pierre, Dorot Richard, Drake Leah Bodine, English Richard, Fearing Vern, Ferrat Jean Jaques, Fox Gardner F., Frank Harriet, Fritch Elliot, Fyfe H.B., Garrett Randall, Geier Chester, Gibson Joe, Godwin Tom, Gregory Franklin, Guin Wyman, Gunn James, Haggard H. Rider, Harrison H., Henderson Zenna, Holden Fox B., Howard Hayden, Jacobs Sylvia, Jones Raymond F., Judd Cyril, Kafka , Kent Kevin, Kline Otis Adelbert, Krepps R. W., la Farge Oliver, Lait Jack, Leiber Fritz, Loomis (A. F. ?), Loxmith John, Ludwig Edward W., MacLean Katherine, MacLean Mabel Seeley, McClary Thomas Calvert, McClary Thomas L., McClintic Winona, McConne James, McConnell James, McGiver Frank, McGregor R. J., McMorrow Jr. Tom, McGuire John J, Menzel Donald H., Mitchell J. Leslie, Moore Ward, Mortimer Lee, Moskowitz Samuel, Mundy Talbot, Nelson Alan, Nourse Alan E., Padgett Lewis, Palmer Raymond A., Parker Hugh Frazier, Paul Frank R., Pease M.C., Phillips Rog, Poe Edgar Allan, Porges Arthur, Pratt Pletcher, Price E. Hoffman, R. N., Rand Ayn, Ready William Bernard, Reynolds Ted, Rogers Jack Townsley, Rose Billy, Schmitz James H., Shallit Joseph, Shelton Jerry, Sherman Michael, Smith Clark Ashton, Smith Evelyn E., Smith George H., Smith Edward L., Snodgrass Richard, Statten Vargo, Stevenson Robert Louis, Swain Dwight V., Taine John, Tooker Richard, Tucker Wilson, Viet H. G., Walton Harry, Waugh Evelyn, Wellen Edward, Weston Ed, Wolf Mark, Worrell Everil, Young Roger Flint

Resources for this article were obtained from Galactic Central and the Internet Science Fiction Database.

On Cover Mentions The other day I got into a brief discussion of cover mentions throughout the history of the science fiction magazine.

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