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  • Publication: Science Fiction Fortnightly, #8 (April 15) 1951Publication Record # 60369 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
  • Editor: L. G. Holmes
  • Date: 1951-04-15
  • Publisher: Hamilton & Co.
  • Price:
    1/6?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: 112
  • 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: Science Fiction Fortnightly, #8 (April 15) 1951 by D. L. W.
  • Notes:
    • Digest magazine sized much like Reader's Digest with two staples from first page to last page and cover glued over spine.
    • H.J. Campbell is credited not the full name of Herbert J. Campbell.
    • Credit given to H.J. Campbell,F.C.S.,F.R.H.S.,M.S.C.I., as technical editor of magazine.
    • Book review not included in this issue due to pressure on space.
    • "Star-Gazing" and "Projectiles" (letters to the editor) are not specifically credited
    • World in a Test Tube is a complete novel going from page 5 to 106. First page credits the story as another full length novel.
    • "Speaking of Atoms" is uncredited and is stated to be no. 3 in a series on Atomic Theory. "Science News" is 5 short clips on current science and uncredited. artist uncredited in digest.
    • Information on page 25, Harbottle/Holland. Page count shows 106, but that is not a magazine count as used here.
    • Tuck III, pg. 634, top lt. col., agrees with page count of 106, price, and year.
Cover art supplied by Galactic Central
Editor Title: Science Fiction Fortnightly - January - April 1951 (3-8) • [Authentic Science Fiction] • (1951) • edited by L. G. Holmes

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