Tales of Wonder (magazine)
Tales of Wonder was a British science fiction magazine published from 1937 to 1942. It was published by The World’s Work, a subsidiary of William Heinemann. Arthur C. Clarke made his first professional sale to Tales of Wonder, with two science articles.
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Tales of Wonder was a British science fiction magazine published from 1937 to 1942. It was published by The World’s Work, a subsidiary of William Heinemann, as part of a series of genre titles that included Tales of Mystery and Detection and Tales of the Uncanny. American writers who appeared in the magazine included Murray Leinster and Jack Williamson; these were both reprints, but some new material from the U.S. did appear. Arthur C. Clarke made his first professional sale to Tales of Wonder, with two science articles. With the advent of World War II, paper shortages and Gillings’ call up into the army made it increasingly difficult to continue, and the sixteenth issue, dated Spring 1942, was the last. The first US science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, was imported into the UK from its launch in 1926.
No British sf magazine appeared until 1934, when Pearson’s launched Scoops, a weekly in tabloid format aimed at the juvenile market. Despite this failure, only a year later, George Newnes, Ltd. decided to launch a group of four genre pulp magazines, and to include a science fiction title. The success of Amazing Stories led Newnes to believe they had been wrong to turn down Gillings and in 1938 they launched Fantasy Fantasy. The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 did not immediately lead to paper shortages, but began to be rationed in April 1940. By 1941, the page count, which had already dropped from 128 to 96, fell to 72 by 1940, and by 1941 Gillings was called up for military service, and for a while he was able to edit the magazine from his camp.
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