SCOOPS

   UK BEDSHEET-size magazine, 20 issues 10 Feb-23 June 1934, published by C. A. Pearson Ltd, London; ed Haydn Dimmock. S was intended as a weekly BOYS' PAPER that would "transport its readers from the everyday happenings into the future"; whatever appeal it might have had for adults was not helped by the decision to use, mostly, writers of ordinary boys' adventure fiction - Dimmock was also editor of The Scout. There was not much material by real sf writers, exceptions being A.M. LOW, with the serial "Space" (1934; vt Adrift in the Stratosphere 1937), a reprintserialization of The Poison Belt (1913) by Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE, and stories by Maurice Hugi and John Russell FEARN. Another serial was "The Black Vultures" by George E. Rochester (c1895-c1985). All issues are nowcollector's items. S was the first UK sf magazine, and not a very good one. 5 tales from it, along with 8 new stories, were later assembled as The Boys' World of Adventure (anth 1937) ed anon.

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