Books Update: Complete Run of Science Fiction Monthly Magazine plus Bonus
*Pulp Fiction:
SCIENCE FICTION MONTHLY (UK)
COMPLETE RUN £300 SOLD
VOL 1 #1-12
VOL 2 #1-12
VOL 3 #1-4
PLUS SF DIGEST #1
All 28 issues of this tabloid-sized magazine published from 1974-1976 plus the one and only issue of its successor. A UK publication from New English Library.
All flat and unfolded with all centrefolds present. Condition is really nice, mostly FN/VF; a few have specific defects as follows:
Vol 1 #1 Small tear with small chip missing upper centre back cover
Vol 1 #7 Cover scuffs and small tear with loss bottom centre front cover
Vol 1 #12 Spine scuffs and tears
Vol 2 #4 Spine scuffs
Vol 2 #5 Coupon out, affects one page of art, not story.
Vol 2 #6 Back cover crease
Vol 2 #7 Small cover scuff
Vol 2 #8 Cover half split with chips out
Sample covers below, #1 issues of all three volumes plus SF Digest
If, like me, you were a fan of the fabulous artwork being produced for science fiction paperbacks in the early 1970s, this is the mag for you. Launched in response to demand from readers for posters of the cover art of New English Library’s science fiction paperbacks, it reprinted artwork in large tabloid format by Chris Foss, Jim Burns, Bruce Pennington, Roger Dean, Josh Kirby, David Pelham and many others, usually without the word copy that appeared on the book covers. Stories and features/articles on science fiction books and film/TV also appeared. Well-known writers who appeared in its pages included Brian Aldiss, Christopher Priest, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Bob Shaw, Robert Silverberg, Anne McCaffrey, Arthur C Clarke, Ray Bradbury, John Wyndham, E E Doc Smith, Olaf Stapleton, John W Campbell, Eric Frank Russell, Edmund Cooper, Thomas M Disch, Stanley G Weinbaum, Harlan Ellison, Stanislaw Lem, J G Ballard, Harry Harrison, Keith Roberts, Jack Williamson and many others.