VENTURE SCIENCE FICTION

VENTURE SCIENCE FICTION
   US DIGEST-size magazine. 16 issues, published by Fantasy House (a subsidiary of Mercury Publications) Jan 1957-Mar 1958 and by Mercury Press May 1958-Aug 1970, as a companion to The MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCEFICTION . 10 bimonthly issues Jan 1957-July 1958 ed Robert P. MILLS; the title was revived a decade later for 6 quarterly issues May 1969-Aug 1970; ed Edward FERMAN. After the 1st series finished, the contents-page masthead in FSF was altered to read "including Venture Science Fiction". VSF put a higher priority on action-adventure sf than did its companion.In its second incarnation it featured a cut novel in every issue. Notable stories include C.M. KORNBLUTH's "Two Dooms" (July 1958), James TIPTREE Jr's "The Snows are Melted, the Snows are Gone" (Nov 1969) and EdwardWELLEN's short novel Hijack (May 1970; 1971).The UK edn was a monthly digest magazine published by the Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co., Sep 1963-Dec 1965 (28 issues). It reprinted most of its material from the1st series of the US magazine, but also used stories from FSF, some from the 1950s, and some which had appeared after FSF's UK edn had folded in June 1965.
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