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Publication: Science Fiction Digest, October-November 1981

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  • Publication: Science Fiction Digest, October-November 1981Publication Record # 258119 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
  • Editor: Shawna McCarthy
  • Date: 1981-10-00
  • Publisher: Davis Publications
  • Price:
    $1.50?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 192
  • Format:
    digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Notes:
    • "Premiere Issue" stated on the cover, but no issue or volume number indicated inside.
    • A price of $1.95 is given in the publisher's statement on the contents page, But $1.50 is on the cover.
    • Cover is a color photograph of Isaac Asimov.
    • Covers are not included in the page count.
    • Asimov's piece is actually two essays which are included in the collection Asimov on Science Fiction. They are individually credited here, but not in the magazine's table of contents.
    • Benford's piece is an excerpt from Across the Sea of Suns, but is self-contained, and, as such, was reprinted in Carr's Best of the Year volume. The novel did not appear until 1984.
    • Each fiction piece is accompanied by a full page B&W photograph of the author.
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Editor Title: Science Fiction Digest: 1981-1982 • [Science Fiction Digest (1981-1982)] • (1981) • edited by Shawna McCarthy

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