Publication: If, September-October 1970

Publication: If, September-October 1970Publication Record # 58850 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Ejler Jakobsson
Date: 1970-09-00
Publisher: UPD Publishing Corporation
Price:
$0.75^?$: US dollar
Pages: 196
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, September-October 1970 by Jack Gaughan [as by Gaughan]
Webpages: archive.org
Notes: Vol. 20, No. 7, Issue 150 Cover and TOC titled Worlds of If Science Fiction Spine titled If Science Fiction Cover suggested by "Fimbulsommer" as noted on the Contents/copyright page (scanned version from archive.org). The title for Keith Laumer's story is misprinted as "Ballot and Bandits" on its title page, but correctly as "Ballots and Bandits" on the cover, the table of contents and the running footer of the story. Page numbers run 1-192, not including the covers. "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume I" is listed as "Science Fiction Hall of Fame". 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 - 1970 • [If / Worlds of If] • (1970) • edited by Ejler Jakobsson

Contents (view Concise Listing)

2 • Hue and Cry (If, September-October 1970) • [Hue and Cry] • essay by uncredited
4 • Fimbulsommer • novella by Randall Garrett and Michael Kurland
4 • Fimbulsommer • interior artwork by uncredited
44 • Fimbulsommer [2] • interior artwork by uncredited
52 • The Guardians • short story by Richard E. Peck
52 • The Guardians • interior artwork by uncredited
63 • Reading Room (If, September-October 1970) • [Reading Room] • essay by Lester del Rey
65 • Review: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume I by Robert Silverberg • review by Lester del Rey
69 • SF Calendar (If, September-October 1970) • essay by uncredited
70 • Ballots and Bandits • [Retief] • novelette by Keith Laumer
70 • Ballots and Bandits • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan [as by Gaughan]
96 • 3:02 P.M., Oxford • short story by Gregory Benford (variant of 3:02 p.m., Oxford) [as by Greg Benford]
108 • The Quintopods • short story by Larry Eisenberg
108 • The Quintopods • interior artwork by uncredited
118 • The Seventh Man • novelette by George C. Chesbro
118 • The Seventh Man • interior artwork by uncredited
146 • Life Cycle • short story by Jack Sharkey
146 • Life Cycle • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
161 • Of Relays and Roses • short story by Gene Wolfe
161 • Of Relays and Roses • interior artwork by uncredited
177 • Of Relays and Roses [2] • interior artwork by uncredited

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