Venture Science Fiction Magazine. Australian Edition October 1964. (British Edition August 1964, No. 12)
London: Atlas Publishing, 1964. Octavo, printed wraps, b&w illus, pp 112. Wraps lightly worn, pages lightly toned. Very good condition.
Venture Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, first published from 1957 to 1958, and revived for a brief run in 1969 and 1970. ( A British edition appeared for 28 issues between 1963 and 1965; it reprinted material from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as well as from the US edition of Venture. This is the Australian version of the British edition, which was published two months later in Australia, ) The magazine published some well-known writers, and SF historian Mike Ashley has suggested it was ahead of its time. This issue includes a long featured story by Poul Anderson, "The Game of Glory"; eight short stories, by Eleazar Lipsky, Carol Emshwiller, Jane Roberts, George P. Elliott, A. Bertram Chandler, Damon Knight, Jane Rice, and Leslie Jones; and two novelettes, by Algis Budrys and William Tenn. Item #105886
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