Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, January 1955 (UK)

Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, January 1955 (UK)Publication Record # 375080 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: John W. Campbell, Jr.
Date: 1955-01-00
Publisher: Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd
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
Notes: v11 #1 Uncredited cover based on one by Frank Kelly Freas.

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Editor Title: Astounding Science Fiction (UK) - 1955 • [Astounding/Analog (UK)] • (1955) • edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

2 • "My Willie Can Do Anything" • [Editorial (Astounding)] • (1954) • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.
6 • They'd Rather Be Right (Part 1 of 4) • [Bossy] • (1954) • serial by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley
36 • Welcome, Strangers! • (1954) • short story by H. B. Fyfe
48 • The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
67 • Achilles and the Tortoise (part 2 of 3) • [Achilles and the Tortoise • 2] • (1954) • essay by
Gotthard Günther^?Gotthard Guenther
78 • Superstition • (1954) • novelette by Lester del Rey
109 • This Is the Way the World Ends • (1954) • short story by H. W. Johnson
121 • The Reference Library: Stapledon Revisited (Astounding, August 1954) • essay by P. Schuyler Miller
121 • Review: To the End of Time by Olaf Stapledon • review by P. Schuyler Miller
123 • Review: Scientific American Reader by Scientific American • review by P. Schuyler Miller
124 • Review: The Green Millennium by Fritz Leiber • review by P. Schuyler Miller
124 • Review: Our Neighbor Worlds by V. A. Firsoff • review by P. Schuyler Miller
125 • Review: The Tritonian Ring by L. Sprague de Camp • review by P. Schuyler Miller
125 • Review: Tales From Gavagan's Bar by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt • review by P. Schuyler Miller
125 • Review: The White Widows by Sam Merwin, Jr. • review by P. Schuyler Miller
126 • Review: E Pluribus Unicorn by Theodore Sturgeon • review by P. Schuyler Miller
126 • Review: Conquest of the Moon by Wernher von Braun and Willy Ley and Fred L. Whipple • review by P. Schuyler Miller
127 • Brass Tacks (Astounding, August 1954) • essay by The Editor
127 • Letter (Astounding, August 1954) • [Letters: Isaac Asimov] • (1954) • essay by Isaac Asimov
128 • Letter (Astounding UK, January 1955) • essay by Smokey McGee

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Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, January 1955 (UK)

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