Publication: Nebula Science Fiction, Number 27

Publication: Nebula Science Fiction, Number 27Publication Record # 59585 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Peter Hamilton
Date: 1958-02-00
Publisher: Peter Hamilton
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: 116
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: Nebula Science Fiction, Number 27 by D. McKeown
Notes:
- Issue number twenty-seven [This Publication Record]. Number 27 at top right front cover. No. 27 running downwards at bottom spine.
- Edited by Peter Hamilton.
- Front cover by D. McKeon. Signature "D.McKe/cutoff" at bottom right front cover art.
- Back cover by Arthur Thomson. Signature "AThomson" at bottom left back cover art.
- The Hired Help "Illustrated by Gerard Quinn" on story title page. Page 9(signed Gerard Quinn), and 24 (not signed). Art bottom of page 33 has signature "D. AR" at bottom right art.
- Colour Bar endpiece is signed "Greengrass" at bottom right art. Thus John J. Greengrass.
- Frontispiece illustration The Great Game is on pages 64 and 65. Signed on page 64 "Harry (over) Turner-57" at bottom right cover art that page. Story title page has "Illustrated by Harry Turner". Page 70 (signed/dated as before), 85 (signed/dated).
- Something to Read is "New Hard-Cover Science Fiction Reviewed by Kenneth F. Slater". Not signed art ornament used around section title.

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Editor Title: Nebula Science Fiction - 1958 • [Nebula Science Fiction (Peter Hamilton)] • (1958) • edited by Peter Hamilton

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fep • Morning and Evening Star • essay by Archie Roy [as by A. E. Roy]
2 • Look Here ... (Nebula Science Fiction, Number 27) • [Look Here ...] • essay by Peter Hamilton
3 • The Hired Help • novelette by John Brunner
9 • The Hired Help • interior artwork by Gerard Quinn
24 • The Hired Help [2] • interior artwork by Gerard Quinn
33 • The Hired Help [3] • interior artwork by Gerard Quinn
34 • Risk Economy • short story by Philip E. High
47 • Colour Bar • short story by John Burke [as by Jonathan Burke]
54 • Colour Bar (endpiece) • interior artwork by John J. Greengrass
57 • Escape from Plenty • short story by William Thomas Webb [as by W. T. Webb]
64 • The Great Game (frontispiece) • interior artwork by Harry Turner
65 • The Great Game • novelette by Kenneth Bulmer
70 • The Great Game • interior artwork by Harry Turner
85 • The Great Game [2] • interior artwork by Harry Turner
98 • Something to Read (Nebula Science Fiction, Number 27) • [Something to Read] • essay by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
98 • Review: Atomic Submarine by Alastair Mars • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
99 • Review: The Space Encyclopaedia (Artemis) by M. T. Bizony and R. Griffin • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
100 • Review: Great World Mysteries by Eric Frank Russell • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
102 • Review: Prisoner in the Skull by Charles Dye • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
102 • Review: The Viking Rocket Story by Milton W. Rosen • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
102 • Review: Burn, Witch, Burn by Abraham Merritt • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
102 • Review: Ayesha: The Return of She by H. Rider Haggard • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
102 • Review: Best Horror Stories by John Keir Cross • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
102 • Review: The Demon Lover by Dion Fortune • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
102 • Review: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
102 • Review: The Collected Short Stories of H. G. Wells (Ernest Benn) by H. G. Wells • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
102 • Review: Sam Small, The Flying Yorkshire Man by Eric Knight • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
102 • Review: The World of Chance by Philip K. Dick • review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater]
103 • Scientifilm Previews (Nebula Science Fiction, Number 27) • [Scientifilm Previews] • essay by Forrest J. Ackerman
105 • Fanorama (Nebula Science Fiction, Number 27) • [Fanorama] • essay by Walt Willis [as by Walter Willis]
108 • Guided Missives (Nebula Science Fiction, Number 27) • [Guided Missives] • essay by The Readers
bc • Nebula Science Fiction, Number 27 (back cover) • interior artwork by ATom [as by Arthur Thomson]

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Publication: Nebula Science Fiction, Number 27

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