Publication: Venture Science Fiction [UK], January 1964

Publication: Venture Science Fiction [UK], January 1964Publication Record # 351374 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Ronald R. Wickers
Date: 1964-01-00
Publisher: Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd
Price:
2/6^?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: 132
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: Venture Science Fiction [UK], January 1964 by Ed Emshwiller (variant of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1963 1963) [as by Emsh]
Notes: Editor from Tymn & Ashley here. Artist not credited but cover is a copy (note that the two character are closer) of Emsh's cover for F&SF here. "British edition No. 5" on TOC, March 1964 in Australasia. Note that the Australasia edition is dated March and has an higher price on cover but is otherwise similar.

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

2 • Bird of Prey • [The Door Through Space] • (1957) • novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2 • Bird of Prey • interior artwork by uncredited
27 • Explorers We • (1959) • short story by Philip K. Dick
36 • Cold Victory • [Psychotechnic League] • (1957) • novelette by Poul Anderson
52 • Santa Clause • (1959) • short story by Robert F. Young
52 • Santa Clause • interior artwork by uncredited
60 • The Keeper • [Empire Era] • (1957) • novelette by H. Beam Piper
60 • The Keeper • interior artwork by uncredited
79 • The "R of A" • short fiction by Gordon R. Dickson (variant of The R of A 1959)
91 • The Last Shall Be First • (1958) • short story by Robert P. Mills
93 • Turn Off the Sky • (1963) • novelette by Ray Nelson
93 • Turn Off the Sky • interior artwork by uncredited

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