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Title: If, September-October 1971 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editors: Ejler Jakobsson
Year: 1971-09-00
Publisher: UPD Publishing Corporation
Price: $0.75
Pages: 180
Binding: Digest
Type: MAGAZINE
Title Reference: If - 1971
Cover: Bruce Roggeri
ISFDB Record Number: 58836
Notes:
- Vol. 21, No. 1, Issue 156
- Titled Worlds of If Science Fiction on the cover and the contents page. Titled If Science Fiction on the spine.
- Cover and spine dated October 1971. Contents page dated September-October 1971.
- Cover illustrates "The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World."
- Inside pages run 1-176, not including the covers.
- UK Price 25p, this issue was distributed in both US and UK.
- The story "To Kill a Venusian" is plagiarized. It was written originally by Anthony Boucher, and published as "Nine-Finger Jack," in F&SF, August 1952.
- Except for the piece by Charles R. Knight (courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History), no interior illustrations are explicitly credited. Jack Gaughan's art identified by signature.
- Some copies of this issue may have missing or repeated pages. "Star Light" is listed as "StarLight".
Bibliographic Comments: Add new Publication comment (WOFIFSEPOCT1971)

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

2 • Hue and Cry (If, September-October 1971) • [Hue and Cry] • essay by Ejler Jakobsson [as by Jakobsson ]
4 • The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World • [The Stainless Steel Rat] • novelette by Harry Harrison
4 • The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World • interior artwork by uncredited
44 • The All-Together Planet • [Retief] • novella by Keith Laumer
44 • The All-Together Planet • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
115 • To Kill a Venusian • shortstory by Irwin Ross
115 • To Kill a Venusian • interior artwork by uncredited
120 • One Moment on the Sand • shortstory by Barry Alan Weissman [as by Barry Weissman ]
120 • One Moment on the Sand • interior artwork by uncredited
128 • After the End and Before the Beginning • shortstory by William Rotsler
128 • After the End and Before the Beginning • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
139 • Reading Room (If, September-October 1971) • [Reading Room] • essay by Lester del Rey
140 • Review: Sturgeon Is Alive and Well . . . by Theodore Sturgeon • review by Lester del Rey
140 • Review: Alone Against Tomorrow by Harlan Ellison • review by Lester del Rey
141 • Review: Star Light by Hal Clement • review by Lester del Rey
143 • Review: Astronomy by Donald H. Menzel • review by Lester del Rey
143 • Review: Lunar Atlas by Dinsmore Alter • review by Lester del Rey
143 • Review: The Atlas of the Universe by Patrick Moore • review by Lester del Rey
143 • Review: The Pulps by Tony Goodstone • review by Lester del Rey
144 • Review: The Children of Llyr by Evangeline Walton • review by Lester del Rey
146 • Death Comes to the Megafauna • essay by L. Sprague de Camp
146 • Death Comes to the Megafauna • interior artwork by Charles R. Knight
160 • Abyss of Tartarus • [Spacewhale] • shortstory by Robert F. Young
160 • Abyss of Tartarus • interior artwork by uncredited
174 • SF Calendar (If, September-October 1971) • essay by uncredited

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