Publication: Space Science Fiction [UK], Volume 2 No. 2

Publication: Space Science Fiction [UK], Volume 2 No. 2Publication Record # 353731 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Lester del Rey
Date: 1953-00-00
Publisher: The Archer Press
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: 128
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: Space Science Fiction [UK], Volume 2 No. 2 by Civiletti (variant of Space Science Fiction, September 1953)
Notes: Note price in USD (0.35) on cover. No pub date on issue, data from Tymn & Ashley. Content close to the September 1953 US issue but with one story and most of the non-fiction dropped. Note that Ebel is credited as "Edel" on title page of PKD's story.

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

2 • Editorial (Space Science Fiction, September 1953) • (1953) • essay by Lester del Rey
4 • The Variable Man • (1953) • novella by Philip K. Dick
4 • The Variable Man • (1953) • interior artwork by Alex Ebel [as by Ebel]
25 • The Variable Man [2] • interior artwork by Alex Ebel [as by Ebel]
65 • The Hour of Battle • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
67 • The Hour of Battle • (1953) • interior artwork by Roy G. Krenkel [as by Krenkel]
71 • The Escape (Part 1 of 2) • (1953) • serial by Poul Anderson (book publication as Brain Wave 1954)
73 • The Escape (Part 1 of 2) • (1953) • interior artwork by Paul Orban [as by Orban]

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