Publication: Venture Science Fiction [UK], October 1963

Publication: Venture Science Fiction [UK], October 1963Publication Record # 351107 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: uncredited
Date: 1963-10-00
Publisher: Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd
Price:
2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 132
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
Webpages: archive.org
Notes:
- "October" on cover
- "British Edition No. 2 [over] October 1963" on ToC
- "In Australasia: [over] December 1963" also on ToC
- Editor is not credited
- Ronald R. Wickers is editor per Tymn & Ashley here
- Artist not credited but cover is an uncanny copy (plagiarism ?) of this Hunter's cover.
- There are some uncredited 'generic' interior vignettes.
- Lardner's story is subtitled "A Bedtime Story for the Future...".
- Identification of Brackett's story was made via its French translation in Fiction #65 where original title is given.

Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page

Contents (view Concise Listing)

2 • The Strange Ones • short fiction by Leigh Brackett (variant of The Queer Ones 1957)
2 • The Strange Ones • interior artwork by uncredited
32 • The Last Element • (1962) • short story by Hugo Correa (trans. of El último elemento unknown)
40 • Friend for Life • (1957) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
52 • Blind Alley • (1957) • short story by Charles L. Fontenay
58 • The End of Evan Essant... ? • (1962) • short story by Sylvia Edwards
75 • Something • (1960) • short story by Allen Drury
82 • The Man Who Lost the Sea • (1959) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
91 • American Plan • (1960) • short story by Rex Lardner
98 • The Red Hills of Summer • (1959) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn

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