review of his last volume (of six) in this annual series: BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR: 23rd Annual Collection, edited by Anthony Boucher (Dutton, 1968); and a book detailing the origins and editorial correspondence around (as well as anthologizing from) The Magazine of Fantasy (and Science Fiction, as it's title was extended with the second issue), THE EUREKA YEARS: Boucher and McComas's Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1949-1954, edited by Annette Pelz McComas reviewed here; Boucher generally on the blog.
And for what made these magazines relevant to him and his career when they didn't include explicit tribute to him...well, White/Boucher was the first (as far as I've been able to ascertain) to place an English translation of Borges fiction anywhere, in this case "The Garden of the Forking Paths", in EQMM in 1948, indicative of his continuing interest in international literature, particularly from Spanish...and he drew fiction from all the cited magazines for one project or another over his years (including for his radio and television work)...I really should double-check to find the ghost(?) memory of his reprinting or long-listing/recommending fiction from The Paris Review.
With the mild exception of the UK magazine Argosy and a typically striking, if simple, cover on The Paris Review, not a great month for cover design on our samples below, even if the F&SF Gahan Wilson is distinctive and the AHMM has a better cover than usual for that often-dowdy magazine (the cover of the July issue was particularly amateurish, as their July 4th-related red and white-striped covers tended to be during the first publisher's run):
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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v52 #2, Whole No. 297, August 1968] ed. Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) (Davis Publications, Inc., 60¢, 164pp, digest) []
- 4 · Anthony Boucher (1911-1968) * James Reach * ob
- 6 · The Gemminy Crickets Case · Christianna Brand · nv; Second Prize Winner in the Crime Writers Association Contest.
- 28 · The Spy Who Read Latin [Jeffrey Rand] · Edward D. Hoch · ss
- 41 · A Theme for Hyacinth · Julian Symons · ss Argosy (UK) August 1967
- 59 · The Man Who Read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · William Brittain · ss
- 66 · Hardcovers and Paperbacks of the Month · [Various] · br
- 67 · Play It Cool, Pal · Alex Pelle · ss
- 76 · The Grisly Game · C. B. Gilford · ss
- 87 · The Precedent · Vincent Cornier · ss
- 99 · Time Bomb · William Bankier · ss
- 104 · A Case of Jurisdiction · John Pierce · vi
- 107 · Riddle: A Real Brain Teaser · [uncredited] · pm
- 108 · The “Watch Out!” Girls [Haila & Jeff Troy] · Kelley Roos · na The American Magazine May 1951, as “Final Performance”
- 146 · The Gods Are Not Mocked · Robert Bloch · ss
- 151 · Change of Heart · Lawrence Treat · ss
Details supplied by Douglas Greene (slightly augmened by TM)
- (Reach
being the then-president of the MWA, and his praise of Boucher is
focused almost entirely on his crime-fiction-related activity, including
services to CF writers and the MWA itself. Reach, a playwright, Samuel French editor, and novelist, would die at 60 in 1970 of a heart attack. TM, age 60)
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v35 #2, No. 207, August 1968] (50¢, 132pp, digest, edited by Edward L. Ferman, cover by Gahan Wilson) []
- 4 · Anthony Boucher · as below · ob [Ref. Anthony Boucher]
- 4 * Anthony Boucher * J. Francis McComas * ob4 * Anthony Boucher * R. Bretnor * ob5 * Anthony Boucher * Avram Davidson * ob5 * Anthony Boucher * Philip K. Dick * ob5 * Anthony Boucher * Margaret St. Clair * ob128 * Anthony Boucher * Poul Anderson * ob128 * Anthony Boucher * Miriam Allen deFord * ob128 * Anthony Boucher * Isaac Asimov * ob130 * Anthony Boucher * Mildred Clingerman * ob130 * Anthony Boucher * Randall Garrett * ob130 * Anthony Boucher * Joe Ferman * ob [as he signs himself, rather than the usual more formal Joseph Ferman, in his role as publisher of the magazine]130 * Anthony Boucher * Robert Bloch * ob
- 6 · The Devil and Jake O’Hara [The Devil] · Brian Cleeve · ss
- 14 · Books · Judith Merril * br/essay
- 14 • Anthony Boucher * ob (by Merril)
- 19 • Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick • review by Judith Merril
- 19 • Review: Cryptozoic! by Brian W. Aldiss • review by Judith Merril
- 19 • Review: Quicksand by John Brunner • review by Judith Merril
- 19 • Review: The Mercy Men by Alan E. Nourse • review by Judith Merril
- 23 • Review: The Dynamics of Change by Don Fabun • review by Judith Merril
- 25 · "Funny thing..." * Gahan Wilson * ct
- 26 · Sos the Rope [Part 2 of 3; Battle Circle] · Piers Anthony · n.
- 51 · The Twelfth Bed · Dean R. Koontz · ss
- 61 · 2001: A Space Odyssey · Samuel R. Delany · mr
- 63 · 2001: A Space Odyssey · Edmund Emshwiller · mr
- 66 · Death to the Keeper · K. M. O’Donnell (aka Barry N. Malzberg) · nv
- 84 · A Sense of Beauty · Robert Taylor · ss
- 91 · Science: The Terrible Lizards · Isaac Asimov · cl
- 104 · Soldier Key [Brigadier Ffellowes] · Sterling E. Lanier · nv
- bc • "Touch-down on the moon, from 2001: A Space Odyssey" * Douglas Trumbull & al. * film still
- Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [Volume 13 No. 8, August 1968] ed. Ernest M. Hutter (H.S.D. Publications, Inc., 50¢, 160pp+, digest) [] illustrations uncredited, but interior illos. probably by Marguerite Blair Deacon
- 2 · Lesson One · James Holding · ss
- 21 · The Dead Past · Al Nussbaum · ss
- 28 · A Secret Lonely Place · Robert Colby · ss
- 41 · Quick Trip North · Miel Tanburn · ss
- 48 · Hawk in the Valley · Edward D. Hoch · ss
- 58 · The Second Debut · Arthur Porges · ss
- 64 · Good-Bye, Mr. Madison · Clark Howard · ss
- 74 · Hill Folks · Robt. G. Southers · ss
- 78 · The Question on My Mind · Lorenc Kunetka · ss
- 90 · Teddy · John Maust · ss
- 97 · Sometimes There Is Justice [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · ss
- 115 · Fat Jow and the Manifestations [Fat Jow] · Robert Alan Blair · ss
- 128 · The Feeling · Thomasina Weber · ss
- 135 · Beach Party · Max Van Derveer · nv
TriQuarterly 13-14, Fall-Winter 1968-69; edited by Charles Newman; Jose Donoso, guest co-editor of this issue. Published by Northwestern University, usually in Fall, Winter and Spring. "Contemporary Latin American Literature" issue. 506pp (excluding "contributors" credit text beginning on back cover) + ii pages
ii * Editor's Note * Charles Newman * ed
6 * Commentary
6 * A Literature of Foundations * Octavio Paz * es translated by Lysander Kemp; illustration: etching by Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero
more to come...
- Argosy (UK) [Vol. XXIX No. 8, August 1968] Edited by Lawrence Hammond (Fleetway Publications, 3/6d, 144pp, digest, cover by Michael Johnson) []
- 4 · Courier · Leon Ware · ss Argosy February 1968; illustrated by Jon Davis
- 17 · Something Borrowed · Harry Secombe · ss; in the “Author’s Choice” series [and thus presumably previously published...TM]
- 19 · Why I Choose This Story · Harry Secombe · is
- 22 · The Good Citizen · Yevgeny Yevtushenko; translated by David Mann · ss (r); illustrated by Bryn Havord
- 33 · Flower Power · Maddocks · ct
- 37 · A Pastorale of War · Freya Stark · ss
- 43 · Chef’s Special · Henry Cecil · ss; illustrated by Edward McLachlan
- 56 · Flanelled Fools · [Various] · ms
- 59 · Just the Lady We’re Looking For · Donald E. Westlake · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1964
- 64 · Peaceful People [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · nv; illustrated by Oliphant
- 83 · Behind the Word: Sandwich · [uncredited] · ms from The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, The Oxford University Press, 1964
- 84 · Argosy Profile: John Betjeman · Philip Norman · iv [Ref. John Betjeman]
- 94 · [cartoon] · [uncredited] · ct
- 95 · Situation Comedy · Graham Seal · vi
- 98 · Island of Eve · Hugh B. Cave · nv 1967; illustrated by Bryn Havord
- 138 · New Books · Gordon Williams · br
- 144 · Argosy Crossword · [uncredited] · pz
This issue can be read here...or could, but this file apparently still as of today hobbled by Archive.org's hacker attack and aftermath. The Dick Gregory excerpt can be read for free here at this time, and the issue with subscription.
- The Saturday Evening Post [v241 #17, August 24, 1968] (quarto) [] (Full Text)
- Cover * Bill Huehnergarth * il
- 3 * From the Editor * William A. Emerson, Jr. * ed
- 4 * Humphrey for President? * unsigned (Otto Friedrich?) * ed
- 4 * Watch Out for Wallace * unsigned * ed
- 12 * Speaking Out!: Uncle Tom Is Dead · Dick Gregory · ex Write Me In!, Bantam Books, 1968
- 16 * Points West: On Becoming a Cop Hater · Joan Didion · column
- 21 * Hubert Horatio Humphrey · Stewart Alsop · ar (illus. Stan Mack)
- 26 * Mayor Daley: Can the Ringmaster Keep the Show Going · Milton Viorst · ar
- 28 * Cockfight · Peter S. Beagle · essay
- 30 * Will This Man Conquer Cancer? · Richard Armstrong · bi/profile (photo by Fred J. Maroon; of Dr. Robert Huebner)
- 33 * Fighting Cancer: Where We Stand Now * Steven Spencer * ar
- 34 * The Stomach, Heart and Spirit of the House · James Beard · ar (photos by Michael Bry)
- 39 * The Man Who Fooled the World · Warner Law · nv (illus. Erik Blegvad)
- 52 * Is John Kenneth Galbraith Really That Good? * John Skow * bi/profile
- 57 * Would You Buy a Used Car from This Man? · Lawrence Dietz · bi/profile of Ralph Williams (photos Bill Bridges)
- 60 * Best Wishes to a Former Mistress and Carl Sandburg and a Dead Armenian and Other People I Lost Track Of · William Saroyan · ex from Letters from 74 Rue Taitbout or Don't Go But If You Must Say Hello To Everybody (World Publishing Co., 1969) illus. Lou Glanzman
- 70 * My Kind of People * Charles Barsotti * cartoons
- 73 * cartoon * Russell Myers * ct
- 74 * cartoon * Jack Tippit * ct
- 76 * cartoon * uncredited * ct
- 80 * cartoon * Jack Tippit * ct
- 82 * cartoon * Charles Barsotti * ct
- 84 * America, America * Mischa Richter * ct
- 86 * Hazel * Ted Key * ct
- 88 * PostScripts * 3 cartoons, by Orlando Busino, Edward Koren & Don Orehek * ct
Links below to opening page of prose works cited (subscription for complete text). Fall 1968:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FICTION
INTERVIEW
POETRY
FEATURE
ART
For more of today's short fiction reviews, and more,
5 comments:
Coincidently. I once owned the Gahan Wilson cover painting for that issue of F&SF -- donated to charity long ago, I fear.
It's sad how many of the magazines from 1968 aren't around any more. I read some of them back then, but I was more of a paperback guy.
Remarkable coincidence, Jerry! Though I could certainly see, if one had several Wilson's in one's collection, considering donating that one...kind of you, nonetheless. Picked it up at a convention?
I've been a lifelong magazine as well as book reader, George...crowded newsstands would please me more than what we have now, but I'll take what we can get...it's interesting the degree to which SEP has a kind of continuing diminished presence, and with luck F&SF will still be around after this year. Aside from ARGOSY and FANTASTIC (despite the often interesting revivals), I think all the others are still with us in one form or another...
Todd, thanks for the links to the archive issues for some of these. I will definitely be checking them out.
You're quite welcome...as you saw, I didn't have time/energy to get very far in indexing the TRIQUARTERLY issue, for here and the FictionMags Index, as yet.
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