tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post3014797637933510900..comments2024-03-27T22:39:08.396-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: fantasy magazines, late March, 1965Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-75345737474930539192013-03-28T19:24:40.080-04:002013-03-28T19:24:40.080-04:00I've had a copy of that April F&SF for yea...I've had a copy of that April F&SF for years and decades (though I was less than a year old when it was on newsstands, so I didn't pick it up new...slacker, I know)...it was quite amusing, when the SIU reprint came out, to learn of its backstage importance. I think you would've needed a newsstand bent on getting an excellent selection of British or sf & fantasy magazines, or both, to find one carrying the Compact magazines in upstate NY in 1965...probably more easily found in NYC, but perhaps not too easy even there...hard enough to find GAMMA around the country, I gather...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-37309114476173940252013-03-28T10:54:42.687-04:002013-03-28T10:54:42.687-04:00Wow, do those covers bring back a lot of memories....Wow, do those covers bring back a lot of memories. I was reading FANTASTIC back then so I read that John Jakes BRAK story. And, I read that Keith Laumer "Imperium" serial, too! Great stuff! SCIENCE FANTASY magazine never showed up around here. Great post!Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-30868270611873846082013-03-27T23:58:11.069-04:002013-03-27T23:58:11.069-04:00Thanks, Walker...for my part, you are too kind...b...Thanks, Walker...for my part, you are too kind...but I wanted to write something "quick" today, and my thoughts turned to how I recently had done quick surveys of two other magazine publishers which particularly had flourished in the 1960s, so both Health Knowledge and Mercury Press seemed like likely subjects...and then that important period just about 48 years ago exactly came to mind, when all these magazines were facing unusually large turning points of one sort or another...I need a copy of the facsimile book, as well...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-91027612292572196302013-03-27T23:32:16.322-04:002013-03-27T23:32:16.322-04:00The only thing that I find to be more fun than rea...The only thing that I find to be more fun than reading these digest magazines, is reading *about* the digests. I had forgotten about the hardcover reprint of F&SF and so I ordered a copy on abebooks.com. Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.com