Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, August 1959

Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, August 1959Publication Record # 57423 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: John W. Campbell, Jr.
Date: 1959-08-00
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
Price:
$0.35^?$: US dollar
Pages: 164
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: Astounding Science Fiction, August 1959 by H. R. Van Dongen [as by Van Dongen]
Webpages: archive.org, drive.google.com
Notes: Jul. 1959←Aug. 1959→Sep. 1959 Vol. LXIII, No 6. (The magazine says "Vol. LXIV, No. 6", but this is incorrect, based on the preceding & following issues.) Cover illustration for "The Aliens" (untitled in the magazine). "Dead Giveaway" is listed as a short story. "Anybody Got an Explanation ... ?" & "How to Do It ... The Land Color Process" are not in table of contents. Interior illustration credits are given at the beginning of each story. Illustrations credited to Martinez are signed with a stylized "M". Artwork on p. 78, credited to Summers, is signed "LRS". Artwork credited to Freas is signed with his KF-circle logo. The review of The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism is embedded in an introductory section titled "Judgment of Its Peers". The full text and images of this edition are available at Luminist.org, see web page for link.

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Editor Title: Astounding Science Fiction - 1959 • [Astounding / Analog (1937-1971)] • (1959) • edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.

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6 • Subjective Color • [Editorial (Astounding)] • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by The Editor]
8 • The Aliens • novelette by Murray Leinster
8 • The Aliens • interior artwork by H. R. Van Dongen [as by Van Dongen]
17 • The Aliens [2] • interior artwork by H. R. Van Dongen [as by Van Dongen]
24 • The Aliens [3] • interior artwork by H. R. Van Dongen [as by Van Dongen]
32 • The Aliens [4] • interior artwork by H. R. Van Dongen [as by Van Dongen]
41 • Dead Giveaway • novelette by Randall Garrett
41 • Dead Giveaway • interior artwork by Martinez
49 • Dead Giveaway [2] • interior artwork by Martinez
57 • Dead Giveaway [3] • interior artwork by Martinez
63 • The Outsiders • novelette by A. Bertram Chandler
63 • The Outsiders • interior artwork by Leo Summers [as by Summers]
71 • The Outsiders [2] • interior artwork by Leo Summers [as by Summers]
78 • The Outsiders [3] • interior artwork by Leo Summers [as by Summers]
87 • The Outsiders [4] • interior artwork by Leo Summers [as by Summers]
92 • In Times to Come (Astounding, August 1959) • [In Times to Come (Astounding)] • essay by The Editor
93 • Space for Madness • essay by Kenneth Bulmer and John Newman [as by Kenneth Johns]
93 • Space for Madness • interior artwork by Frank Kelly Freas [as by Freas]
100 • A Matter of Proportion • short story by Anne Walker
101 • A Matter of Proportion • interior artwork by Bernklau
107 • A Matter of Proportion [2] • interior artwork by Bernklau
113 • Anybody Got an Explanation ... ? • essay by uncredited
114 • Familiar Pattern • novelette by A. Bertram Chandler [as by George Whitley]
115 • Familiar Pattern • interior artwork by Frank Kelly Freas [as by Freas]
123 • Familiar Pattern [2] • interior artwork by Frank Kelly Freas [as by Freas]
131 • Familiar Pattern [3] • interior artwork by Frank Kelly Freas [as by Freas]
137 • The Analytical Laboratory: May 1959 (Astounding, August 1959) • [The Analytical Laboratory] • essay by The Editor
138 • Day of Succession • short story by Theodore L. Thomas
138 • Day of Succession • interior artwork by H. R. Van Dongen [as by Van Dongen]
146 • The Reference Library: Judgment of Its Peers (Astounding, August 1959) • [The Reference Library] • essay by P. Schuyler Miller
148 • Review: The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism by Alfred Bester and Robert Bloch and Robert A. Heinlein and C. M. Kornbluth • review by P. Schuyler Miller
150 • Review: The Triumph of Time by James Blish • review by P. Schuyler Miller
151 • Review: Star Science Fiction No. 4 by Frederik Pohl • review by P. Schuyler Miller
152 • Review: Lost in Space by George O. Smith • review by P. Schuyler Miller
153 • Review: The Moon Maker by Arthur Train and Robert W. Wood • review by P. Schuyler Miller
154 • Review: What Has Four Wheels and Flies? by Douglass Wallop • review by P. Schuyler Miller
154 • Review: Tomorrow's Gift by Edmund Cooper • review by P. Schuyler Miller
162 • How to Do It ... The Land Color Process • essay by The Editor

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Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, August 1959

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