• Publication: Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], No. 42Publication Record # 503681 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editor: H. L. Gold
• Date: 1956-09-00
• Publisher: Strato Publications
• Price:
  2/-^?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
• Cover: Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], No. 42 by Jack Coggins (variant of Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1956)
• Notes: • Follows the contents of the July 1956 US issue • Drops the Lloyd Biggle, Jr. story, one essay and the book reviews • Date from Tuck

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 2 • Now Look! • [Editor's Page (Galaxy)] • (1956) • essay by H. L. Gold
• 4 • Drop Dead • (1956) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 34 • Writing of the Rat • (1956) • short story by James Blish (variant of The Writing of the Rat)
• 47 • For Your Information: Welcome to Reality C-TI • [For Your Information] • (1956) • essay by Willy Ley
• 59 • Bad Medicine • (1956) • short story by Robert Sheckley [as by Finn O'Donnevan]
• 78 • Horrer Howce • (1956) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 90 • The Skills of Xanadu • (1956) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 118 • All the Things You Are • (1956) • short story by Robert Sheckley