SPACEWAY

   US DIGEST-size magazine, 8 issues Dec 1953-June 1955, 12 issues in all, published by William L. CRAWFORD's FPCI in Los Angeles; the subtitle "Stories of the Future" was changed to "Science Fiction" Dec 1954. Thetitle was taken from the UK film SPACEWAYS (1953). When S died it had published only the first part of Ralph Milne FARLEY's "Radio Minds of Mars"; on its resurrection by the same publisher many years later topublish 4 more issues, Jan 1969-June 1970, it printed the serial in full. This new version of S reprinted material from the first, but added a fewnew stories. The most notable story carried by the magazine was "The Cosmic Geoids" by John TAINE (Dec 1954-Apr 1955), though this had alreadybeen published in book form, by the same publisher, as the lead novel of The Cosmic Geoids, and One Other (coll 1949). An unfinished serial in the2nd version of S was Andre NORTON's "Garan of Yu-Lac", which Crawford had been holding since 1935; he later published it in book form as Garan the Eternal (1972). \#1-\#4 were reprinted in the UK 1954-5 by RegularPublications.

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