Nebula Science Fiction
Nebula Science Fiction was published from 1952 to 1959. It was edited by Peter Hamilton, a young Scot who was able to take advantage of spare capacity at his parents’ printing company, Crownpoint. The magazine was popular with writers, partly because Hamilton went to great lengths to encourage new writers.
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Nebula Science Fiction was published from 1952 to 1959. It was edited by Peter Hamilton, a young Scot who was able to take advantage of spare capacity at his parents’ printing company, Crownpoint. The magazine was popular with writers, partly because Hamilton went to great lengths to encourage new writers, and partly because he paid better rates per word than much of his competition. Nebula’s circulation was international, with only a quarter of the sales in the United Kingdom. This led to disaster when South Africa and Australia imposed import controls on foreign periodicals at the end of the 1950s. Excise duties imposed in the UK added to Hamilton’s financial burdens, and he was rapidly forced to close the magazine. The first issue was dated Autumn 1952, and sold 4,000 copies. Advertisements stated that Nebula was “Scotland’s first S. F. magazine!!” Several British science fiction fans helped Hamilton with the production of the magazine, including Ken Slater, Vin¢ Clarke, and John Brunner. William F. Temple was involved as an editorial consultant and also assisted with editing the manuscripts.
Nebula was also a fan favourite: author Ken Bulmer recalled that it became “what many fans regard as the best-loved British SF magazine”. The last issue of Nebula, dated June 1959, contained two novels before Hamilton had to stop publication. At the time, Nebula had a circulation of 40,000, and starting in January 1958 Nebula’s editorial in the magazine’s first issue reported a circulation in the mid-40,000s. Although Nebula’s strong, only about quarter of its sales were in the US, another third in Australia, nearly a tenth in South Africa, and nearly a third in the third US, the magazine was quickly forced to cease publication with issue 41, dated April 1959. At least two issues of Nebula contained the first two novels of Brian Aldiss and Robert Silverberg, before Hamilton bought the novels before changing his plans. The last two issues contained the second two novels, and Hamilton had bought them before changing the plans.
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