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Science Fiction Pulp Publications
Science Fiction Pulp Publications is devoted to republishing those wonderful old sci-fi pulp magazines of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. For many of us "older" folks, they were a stepping stone from comic books and Tarzan to serious reading. Some of these old pulps may still be found, and are treasured by fans everywhere. But their pulp paper pages are brittle, fragile, and sometimes missing pages just when the story gets going good.
"Sci-Fi Pubs" are in PDF Format and Require a Free PDF Reader
This series of publications cannot compete with the thrill of actually holding an old pulp in your hands. But it can reprint the magnificent covers, illustrations, and spellbinding tales for old fans and perhaps for new readers who just like good adventure stories.
Each Tailhook Sci-Fi Ebook is a complete pulp magazine, except for advertisements, editorials, reader forums, and filler items. We've included the prized cover art, even though some covers on the issues we scan are not always intact. The table of contents describes the stories in each issue, and illustrations are usually woodcuts that are now almost a lost artform.
We invite you now to return to the days when science fiction didn't deal with much "science." Instead, it placed heroes and heroines in peril on some distant planet, facing insurmountable dangers from alien creatures with weapons earthlings never imagined. Yet the authors imagined the planet, the aliens, and the weapons, without explaining any "science" because nobody cared. These stories are intended to stir the imagination, not to teach a course in physics, chemistry, alien anatomy, or rocketry.
Although these magazines are old, their stories are usually based sometime in our future. That's what makes them readable even today. With all our new gadgetry and better understanding of the solar system and universe, we're still behind the time line of most sci-fi pulp stories.
So let your imagination soar. And just enjoy some good yarns that are timeless.
Famous Fantastic Mysteries, March 1946 — This issue has only two stories — "The Machine Stops", a full-length novel by Britisher Wayland Smith; and "Before I Wake", a short story by Henry Kuttner. The novel opens with the Earth covered by a blue-green fog that permeates everything. Somehow the fog corrodes all metals and almost overnight returns civilization to the stone age. Within a few months, steel structures collapse, automobiles and airplanes fail, ships sink, even screws and nails in furniture and houses fall apart. Despite the panic of millions who riot for food, shelter and security, a small group of scientists survive to begin building civilization anew. The short story is about a boy on an island who dreams of sailing to exotic countries, and how he gets to do it. — #SFFFM0346
AMAZING STORIES March 1951 — Consists of two short novels and five short stories. An underlying theme of "the bomb and what to do with it" permeates many of the plot lines. The short novels are "Beyond the Rings of Saturn" by Robert Moore Williams, and "Whom the Gods Destroy" by P.F Costello. One of the more interesting short stories is "No Medal for Captain Manning" by William P. McGivern, about the last man on war-torn Earth, who enjoyed the feeling of peace until footsteps sounded behind him. Other short stories are "Ticket to Venus" by Rod Ruth; "Laughing Matter" by Enoch Sharpe; "You'll Die Yesterday" by Rog Phillips; and "Secret of the Burning Finger" by Julian S. Krupa. — #SFAS0351
AMAZING STORIES March 1949 — The issue starts with a short story, "The Chemical Vampire" by Lee Francis. It's about a vampire that finds a new body. Other shorts include "The Strange Disappearance of Guy Sylvester" by Chester Galer and Taylor Shaver and "The Lost Power" by Guy Archette. Two interesting novelets round out the issue. They are "The Strange Tea of Ting Sun Fu" by Leroy Yerxa, and "The Swordsman of Pira" by Charles Recour. In "Strange Tea", a newspaper reporter uncovers a door between our world and a two-dimensional universe. "Swordsman" is about a time-traveler who lands in a world of sabretooth tigers, a beautiful girl, and a war — and refuses to come back. — #SFAS0349
Sci-Fi Publications
60-100 Pages — $5.00.
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