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Asimov's Science Fiction is an American science fiction magazine edited by Sheila Williams and published by Dell Magazines, which is owned by Penny Press.It was launched as a quarterly by Davis Publications in 1977, after obtaining Isaac Asimov's consent for the use of his name.
Apex Magazine: 2005 United States Apex Book Company American horror and science fiction magazine. Online Asimov's Science Fiction: 1977 United States Penny Publications, LLC American magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy and perpetuates the name of Isaac Asimov. Printed Clarkesworld Magazine: 2006 United States Wyrm Publishing
The science column ran for 399 consecutive issues, ending in February 1992. Asimov's widow, Janet Asimov, wrote another essay for the December 1994 issue, based on her conversations with her husband before his death, and a final essay appeared in January 1996, containing material from the book Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters. [13]
The cover story of the magazine's first issue paid tribute to scientist and science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov. [9] According to Shermer, Asimov died when the issue was going to print, so artist Linse produced a pencil portrait of the author.
The magazine was successful, and Pohl was able to increase his pay rates slightly within a year. He managed to obtain stories by writers who subsequently became very well known, such as Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. After Pohl entered the army in early 1943, wartime paper shortages led Popular to cease publication of Astonishing. The final ...
Fact and Fancy is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the first in a series of books collecting his essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's second book of science essays altogether (after Only a Trillion). Doubleday & Company first published it in March ...
In 1982, Williams was hired at the magazine, and worked with Isaac Asimov for ten years. While working there, she co-founded the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (at one time called the Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy writing). [ 3 ]
In 1960, Campbell changed the title of the magazine to Analog Science Fact & Fiction; he had long wanted to get rid of the word "Astounding" in the title, which he felt was too sensational. At about the same time Street & Smith sold the magazine to Condé Nast, and the name changed again to its current form by 1965. Campbell remained as editor ...