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David Cantrell 🏏@[email protected]

re earlier toot, achievement unlocked: catalogued all my sci-fi pulp mags. They're mostly in surprisingly good condition. Some from the 1950s, lots from the 60s/70s. There was also an issue of "Radical Science Journal" in there, which I am expecting, just from its name, to be Proper Batshit.

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Photograph of the front cover of Analog Science Fiction And Science Fact, from June 1975. It's not in great condition, but it's 50 years old and not falling apart so it's doing better than me. The cover art shows a flying saucer over a rocky desert landscape with a sun low on the horizon and partially obscured by clouds. Everything is in reds and oranges indicating sunset, except the space ship, the shadowed parts of which, facing towards us, are blue/purple. Another ship - or possibly a rotor-c
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Cataloguing some of them was hard, as lots just have an issue number with no date, and it is well known that some magazines were wildly inconsistent about numbering, with different numbers for UK and US editions, different publishers and so on. I realised too late that I should have been rather more careful about noting the publisher and country. Bother.

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