Venture Science Fiction Magazine. Australian Edition February 1964. (British Edition December 1963, No. 4.)
London: Atlas Publishing by arrangement with Mercury Press, 1964. Octavo, printed wraps, b&w illus, pp 128. Light wear to edges, spine slanted, 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: four short stories by Chrles G. Finney, Avram Davidson, Will Worthington, and Robert Bloch; three novelettes by Algis Budrys, Walter M. Miller and Lincoln Boone, and P.G. Wodehouse; and a long featured story by James E. Gunn. (The somewhat unexpected in tis context P.G. Wodehouse story is "Honeysuckle Cottage", and involves Mr Mulliner and a story about a haunted house. It was apparently described by Ludwig Wittgenstein as the funniest thing he had ever read.). Item #105890
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