McCLURE'S MAGAZINE

McCLURE'S MAGAZINE
   US "slick" magazine published by S.S. McClure, ed Ida Tarbell and others. Monthly June 1893-Jan 1926 (irregularly towards the end). Recommenced June 1926 as a romance magazine. Merged with Smart Set in Apr 1929.Initially conceived as the US edition of The IDLER, MM appeared as a new magazine with original stories and features, although some sf was reprinted from The Idler. MM's best remembered sf publication is Rudyard KIPLING's Withthe Night Mail: A Story of 2000 AD (1905; 1909 chap US). Two interesting disaster stories were "Within an Ace of the End of the World" (1900) by Robert BARR and "The End of the World" (1903) by Jules Guerin. JackLONDON's "The Unparalleled Invasion" (1910) is a future- WAR Yellow-Peril story in which the author, famous as a believer in the Brotherhood of Man, recommends genocide of the Chinese. A serialized novel was Cleveland MOFFETT's The Conquest of America: A Romance of Disaster and Victory: U.S.A. 1921 A.D. (May-Aug 1915 as "The Conquest of America in 1921"; 1916).
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