Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, January 1956

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Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, January 1956Publication Record # 57498 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: John W. Campbell, Jr.
Date: 1956-01-00
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
Price:
$0.35^?$: US dollar
Pages: 164
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: Astounding Science Fiction, January 1956 by H. R. Van Dongen [as by Van Dongen]
Webpages: archive.org
Notes: Dec. 1955←Jan. 1956→Feb. 1956 Vol 56, No 5. There is no "Brass Tacks" column in this issue. The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive, see web page for link.

Cover art supplied by Galactic Central

Editor Title: Astounding Science Fiction - 1956 • [Astounding / Analog (1937-1971)] • (1956) • edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

6 • Nothing Fails Like Success • [Editorial (Astounding)] • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by The Editor]
8 • The Executioner • novelette by Algis Budrys
39 • Indirection • short story by Everett B. Cole
56 • Won't You Walk— • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of "Won't You Walk...")
80 • Under Pressure (Part 3 of 3) • serial by Frank Herbert
135 • Times to Come (Astounding, January 1956) • [In Times to Come (Astounding)] • essay by The Editor
136 • Labor of Love • essay by Murray Leinster
147 • The Reference Library: The Suit Merchants (Astounding, January 1956) • [The Reference Library] • essay by P. Schuyler Miller
156 • Review of the nonfiction work "Song of the Sky" by Guy Murchie • essay by P. Schuyler Miller

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