Science-Fiction Plus
Science-Fiction Plus was an American science fiction magazine published by Hugo Gernsback for seven issues in 1953. Sales were initially good, but soon fell. The last two issues were printed on cheaper pulp paper, but the magazine remained unprofitable. The final issue was dated December 1953.
About Science-Fiction Plus in brief
Science-Fiction Plus was an American science fiction magazine published by Hugo Gernsback for seven issues in 1953. It was a slick, meaning that it was in large format and was printed on high-quality paper. Sales were initially good, but soon fell. The last two issues were printed on cheaper pulp paper, but the magazine remained unprofitable. The final issue was dated December 1953. The first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, was launched in 1926 by Gern’sback at the height of the pulp magazine era. He lost control of Amazing Stories in a bankruptcy in 1929, but he quickly started several more sf magazines, including Air Wonder Stories and Science Wonder Stories. He did not return to the sf field for nearly seventeen years, when Science-fiction Plus appeared. During Gern’s long absence from sf publishing, The Golden Age of Science Fiction is generally considered to have started in the late 1930s and mid-1940s, bringing with it a quantum jump in quality, perhaps the greatest in the history of the genre.
However, some sf historians mistakenly think it began under the brand of weird masquerades or what they mistakenly call the ‘fairy tale’ type of sf story. The magazine was never distributed or intended for sale, and produced a dummy issue in November 1952 that was printed for trademark purposes, and contained only stories by GERNsback himself, under his own name and several pseudonyms. It is not known if the magazine ever went on to be a profitable success, but sales were insufficient for it to continue. The price, 35 cents, was also competitive, and the magazine became bimonthly beginning with the August issue. In the first issue of Science-F fiction Plus, he gave his view of the modern story: “the fairy tale, the weird tale of what it means to be human.”
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