Publication: If, February 1959

Publication: If, February 1959Publication Record # 58729 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Damon Knight
Date: 1959-02-00
Publisher: Quinn Publishing Company, Inc.; Buffalo, NY
Price:
$0.35^?$: US dollar
Pages: 124
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: If, February 1959 by Frank Kelly Freas [as by Kelly Freas]
Webpages: archive.org
Notes: Vol 9, No 2. Cover art illustrates "Pipe Dream" as noted on the Contents/copyright page (scanned version from archive.org). "Illustrations by Ed Emsh and Paul Orban" stated on the contents page without individual stories credited. Those identified by signature have been credited below. Pages numbers run from 1-120, not including the covers. The illustration on page 3 has initials that appear to be C.A.C. At least one other illustration with those initials was editorially attributed to Emsh. The reviews are credited to "The Editor". Some of the reviews from "The Retort" appear in the second edition of Damon Knight's "In Search of Wonder". The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive, see web page for link.

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Editor Title: If - 1959 • [If / Worlds of If] • (1959) • edited by Damon Knight

Contents (view Concise Listing)

2 • Pipe Dream • [Simon Grue] • short story by Fritz Leiber
3 • Pipe Dream • interior artwork by uncredited
14 • The Wind People • short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley
14 • The Wind People • interior artwork by Paul Orban
28 • The Good Work • short story by Theodore L. Thomas
38 • The Man Who Tasted Ashes • short story by Algis Budrys
38 • The Man Who Tasted Ashes • interior artwork by Ed Emshwiller [as by Emsh]
50 • Love and Moondogs • short story by Richard McKenna
50 • Love and Moondogs • interior artwork by Ed Emshwiller [as by Emsh]
60 • The Last Days of L.A. • short story by George H. Smith
61 • The Last Days of L.A. • interior artwork by Paul Orban
75 • In the Balance (If, February 1959) • [In the Balance (If)] • essay by Damon Knight [as by The Editor]
75 • Review: VOR by James Blish • review by Damon Knight
76 • Review: Deadly Image by Edmund Cooper • review by Damon Knight
76 • Review: 43,000 Years Later by Horace Coon • review by Damon Knight
77 • Review: Into Other Worlds by Roger Lancelyn Green • review by Damon Knight
78 • Virgin Ground • short story by Rosel George Brown
78 • Virgin Ground • interior artwork by uncredited
86 • Discipline • short story by Margaret St. Clair
86 • Discipline • interior artwork by Ed Emshwiller [as by Emsh]
95 • In the Jag-Whiffing Service • short story by David R. Bunch
98 • Star of Rebirth • short story by Bernard Wall
98 • Star of Rebirth • interior artwork by uncredited
106 • No, No, Not Rogov! • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • short story by Cordwainer Smith
106 • No, No, Not Rogov! • interior artwork by Ed Emshwiller [as by Emsh]

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Publication: If, February 1959

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