Galaxy science fiction
Galaxy Science Fiction magazine was the creation of noted
pulp magazine editor
Horace Leonard Gold.
Galaxy's premiere issue introduced a book column by celebrated anthologist
Groff Conklin, which contined till 1955, and a science column by
Willy Ley that continued until his death in 1969.
Galaxy published outstanding science fiction for decades under a succession of editors:
- Horace L. Gold: October, 1950 - October, 1961 (See note under Frederik Pohl.)
- Frederik Pohl: ? 1959 - May, 1969 (Pohl took over from an ailing Gold sometime in 1959, though the masthead was not changed until the December 1961 issue.)
- Ejler Jakobsson: July, 1969 - May, 1974
- James Baen: June, 1974 - October, 1977
- John J. Pierce: November, 1977 - March/April, 1979
- Hank Stine: June/July, 1979 - September/October, 1979
- Floyd Kemske: 1980
Begun as a monthly, the magazine varied between monthly and bimonthly status at different times during its 30+ year run. In
1953 a French edition,
Galaxie, was launched, and in
1957, a German edition,
Galaxis. After Groff Conklin stepped down as book reviewer, his column was continued by Floyd C. Gale. (Indications that Conklin himself continued the column after 1955 appear to be in error.) In February 1965 Pohl brought
Algis Budrys on as book reviewer; he was succeeded later, sometime before
1972, by
Theodore Sturgeon, who passed the job to
Spider Robinson in 1975. With the January
1975 issue,
Galaxy incorporated its sister magazine,
Worlds of If, founded in March of 1952, with which it had shared several editors.
Galaxy ceased publication in pulp format in
1980. In the early
1990s the magazine was purchased by E. J. Gold, son of the founder, who published eight bimonthly issues in 8x11 format (but on pulp stock) between Jan/Feb
1994 and Mar/Apr
1995. Plans to continue
Galaxy on line did not develop, though the former editor maintains a scattering of
Galaxy-related web pages.
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