SCIENCE WONDER STORIES

   US BEDSHEET-size magazine. 12 monthly issues June 1929-May 1930, published by Stellar Publishing Corp.; ed Hugo GERNSBACK.After Gernsback lost control of his first fully sf magazine, AMAZING STORIES, in 1929, he rapidly made a comeback with a new company and 2 new magazines, SWS and, a month later, AIR WONDER STORIES. "SCIENCE WONDER STORIES are clean, CLEAN from beginning to end. They stimulate only one thing - IMAGINATION," he wrote in the first editorial. His policy, as usual, was to emphasize the didactic aspects of sf, and he claimed that every story had been passed by "an array of authorities and educators". SWS dealt with all aspects ofscience, unlike Air Wonder Stories, but in fact they used much the same authors and similar material, and it was logical, after a year, to amalgamate them, as WONDER STORIES. SWS was a handsome magazine, all the covers being by Frank R. PAUL. Authors included Miles J. BREUER, Stanton A. COBLENTZ, David H. KELLER (in 10 of the 12 issues), Laurence MANNING,Fletcher PRATT, Harl VINCENT and Jack WILLIAMSON. Raymond Z. GALLUN made his debut here.

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