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And we pay tribute to the fact that in the oldest issues of American science fiction magazines series appeared that had been translated from the German.

Somehow, we also assume that abroad, in non-English speaking lands, there probably may be some local writers and even local magazines turning out stories and novels in the native tongues, but obviously going unnoticed and scarce worth translating.

He covers it in all its aspects: books, magazines, comics, fans and fandom, juvenilia, series characters, and literary giants.

I believe there is a far more intelligent and presumption-free debate going on in the decried science fiction genre than in many of the so-called conscious and, for most people, incomprehensible, cultural magazines that are embraced with such great benevolence by the critics.

Perhaps some of the younger readers of the magazines appreciated the sight of the scantily dressed females on the magazine covers, but that was about all.

This is a remarkable change from the monster philosophy of the pulp magazines, and an attitude that the science fiction field should be proud of.

The first issue sold 300,000 copies, and some sf magazines fought with hands and claws and tentacles to be first to the smorgasbord.

The magazines were, to be sure, aimed at a rather low age level, but the boundless imagination should have influenced these readers to not a mean degree.

These magazines are, in fact, the only ones which ever have tried to inject some quality, sf-wise, in the comic field in the U.

Science fiction has indeed changed immensely since the pulp era, as has all literature, and I think it would only be fair to use a somewhat different yardstick for these admittedly crude magazines of the past, than for those published today.

European counterparts mainstream magazines with a more or less pronounced sf slant.

Wells, the first modern science fiction writer had already been writing mature sf for many years, and he was far from alone in Europe doing thisbut whereas these authors primarily had been writers concentrating upon the impact of change on man, the new American magazines brought forth a new breed of science fiction writers.

The specialized magazines, dealing more or less exclusively with science fiction, brought a great change to the whole field.

Long before this, a number of other sf magazines had seen the light of day.

Hugo Gernsback went bankrupt at the end of 1928, losing all his magazines, his radio station and his home.