Galaxy (magazine)

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Front cover of the first issue of Galaxy

Galaxy was an American science fiction - magazine , published between 1950 and 1980. The series appeared monthly until 1958, later every two months and at the end only irregularly until it was discontinued in 1980. EJ Gold, the son of the first publisher, tried a new edition in 1994/95, but was unsuccessful. Original editions of Galaxy fetch some high prices in the relevant market today.

Science fiction in the "golden age" between the two world wars dealt mainly with technical-scientific topics. It is therefore not surprising that science fiction stories first appeared in radio, electronics, and hobbyist magazines. It was not until the 1930s that independent magazines such as Amazing Stories , Astounding and Science Wonder Stories were able to establish themselves on the market. They were named pulp magazines after the inferior paper (pulp) they were printed on . They did not survive World War II .

In 1950 two new magazines appeared on the US market at about the same time: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Galaxy , which, in contrast to the prewar publications, also deal with so-called soft science , with topics from psychology , philosophy and the social sciences concerned.

The first editor of Galaxy was Horace L. Gold , who published such famous books as Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Tiger! Tiger! were first printed by Alfred Bester . Therefore, Gold was able to win over the best SF authors for his magazine. The first issue featured stories from such established authors as Isaac Asimov , Clifford D. Simak , Richard Matheson and Theodore Sturgeon . Galaxy also became a springboard for many later well-known science fiction writers such as Alfred Bester, who published his award-winning classic The Demolished Man here as a serialized novel in 1952 .

editor

  • Horace L. Gold (1950–1961)
  • Frederik Pohl (1961–1969)
  • Ejler Jacobsson (1969–1974)
  • James Baen (1974-1977)
  • John J. Pierce (1977-1979)
  • Hank Stine (1979)
  • Floyd Kemske (1980)
  • EJ Gold (1994-1995)

German editions

In 1958/59 a German version of the magazine called Galaxis - Tales from the World of Tomorrow was published! published by Arthur Moewig Verlag , Munich , with a total of 15 issues.

In Heyne appeared from 1965 to a German edition in paperback form , which was discontinued again after 14 issues per year 1970th The editor was Walter Ernsting , from volume 10 together with Thomas Schlück .

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