[Oct. 30, 1960] Halloween Candy (the November 1960 Fantasy and Science Fiction)
With Halloween around the corner, one might have thought that there would have been an extra spooky issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction this month. Nothing doing. The current issue is nothing...
View Article[July 6, 1961] Trends (August 1961 Galaxy, second half)
Human beings look for patterns. We espy the moon, and we see a face. We study history and see it repeat (or at least rhyme, said Mark Twain). We look at the glory of the universe and infer a...
View Article[August 5, 1961] In the good old Summertime! (September 1961 IF science fiction)
Gideon Marcus by Ron Church Summer is here! It’s that lazy, hot stretch of time when the wisest thing to do is lie in the shade with a glass of lemonade and a good book. Perhaps if Khruschev did the...
View Article[Oct. 5, 1961] Half Full (November 1961 IF Science Fiction)
by Gideon Marcus A long time ago, back in the hoary old days of the 1950s, there was a science fiction magazine called Satellite. It was unusual in that contained full short novels, and maybe a...
View Article[Oct. 26, 1961] Fading Fancy (November 1961 Fantasy and Science Fiction)
by Gideon Marcus Have you ever ordered your favorite dessert only to find it just doesn’t satisfy like it used to? I’m a big fan of crème brûlée, and I used to get it every chance I could. That...
View Article[Dec. 5, 1961] IF I didn’t care… (January 1962 IF Science Fiction)
by Gideon Marcus There is an interesting rhythm to my science fiction reading schedule. Every other month, I get to look forward to a bumper crop of magazines: Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog, and...
View Article[January 30, 1962] Heads or Tails? (Ace Double F-127)
by Gideon Marcus What if the South had won at Antietam? Or the Mongols had not been so savaged by the Hungarians at Mohi? If Hitler had grown up an artist? Time travel has been a staple of science...
View Article[Feb. 10, 1962] Here is the News (March 1962 IF)
by Gideon Marcus If “no news is good news,” then this has been a very good week, indeed! The Studebaker UAW strike ended on the 7th. The Congo is no more restive than usual. Laos seems to be holding...
View Article[April 10, 1962] All the Difference (May 1962 IF Science Fiction)
by Gideon Marcus The measure of a story’s quality, good or bad, is how well it sticks in your memory. The sublime and the stinkers are told and retold, the mediocre just fades away. If you ever...
View Article[June 10, 1962] A star shall rise (July 1962 IF Science Fiction)
by Gideon Marcus I’ve said before that IF Worlds of Science Fiction is sort of a poor sister to Galaxy Science Fiction. Since 1959, they’ve been owned and run by the same team; IF pays its writers...
View Article[June 13, 1962] THE SINCEREST FORM? (the July 1962 Amazing)
by John Boston The July Amazing starts off ambiguously, with Stonehenge on the cover—often a bad sign, you could find yourself in Atlantis if you’re not careful. But it illustrates A Trace of Memory,...
View Article[July 12, 1962] ROUTINE EXCURSION (the August 1962 Amazing)
by John Boston Summertime, and the living is . . . hot and sticky, here in the near-South. Also fairly boring, if one is not much interested in such local rustic amusements as hayrides and...
View Article[August 6, 1962] Bookkends (September 1962 IF Worlds of Science Fiction)
[if you’re new to the Journey, read this to see what we’re all about!] by Gideon Marcus It’s a hot, doldrumy summer. My wife and I are hard at work. Our daughter has headed to the North for a...
View Article[August 12, 1962] FEH (the September 1962 Amazing)
by John Boston This September Amazing continues the magazine’s slide into mediocrity after the promise of the year’s earlier issues. Keith Laumer’s serial A Trace of Memory concludes, and it’s quite...
View Article[October 9, 1962] Middlin’ middle sibling (November 1962 IF Science Fiction)
[if you’re new to the Journey, read this to see what we’re all about!] by Gideon Marcus Another month, another load of science fiction digests delivered to my door. Normally, they arrive staggered...
View Article[November 22, 1962] Return to Normalcy (December 1962 Fantastic)
by Victoria Silverwolf America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the...
View Article[December 12, 1962] UP THE SPOUT AGAIN (the January 1963 Amazing)
by John Boston All right, Frogeyes,* dust off all the stars. We’re finally going to need them for this January 1963 Amazing, specifically for Keith Laumer’s novelet It Could Be Anything. *Those...
View Article[February 6, 1963] Up and Coming (March 1963 IF Science Fiction)
[If you live in Southern California, you can see the Journey LIVE at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San Diego, 2 p.m. on February 17!] by Gideon Marcus I’ve complained from time to time about the...
View Article[February 12, 1963] HOPE SPRINGS (the March 1963 Amazing)
[If you live in Southern California, you can see the Journey LIVE at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San Diego, 2 p.m. on February 17!] by John Boston Well, hope springs eternal, and a good thing for...
View Article[February 15, 1963] New Kid in Town (April 1963 Worlds of Tomorrow)
[If you’re in in Southern California, you can see the Journey LIVE at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San Diego, 2 p.m. on February 17!] by Victoria Silverwolf Frederik Pohl must not be busy enough...
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