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| Title: | Arcana Caelestia |
| Notice: | Directory listings are in topic 2 |
| Moderator: | NETRIX::thomas |
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| Created: | Thu Dec 08 1983 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1300 |
| Total number of notes: | 18728 |
550.0. "Re-introducing _Unknown Worlds_ ... sort of" by INK::KALLIS (Remember how ephemeral is Earth.) Thu Dec 03 1987 14:46
-<Maybe a "Back Door" renniassance?>-
There are many people who are now drawing breaths who haven't heard
of _Unknown Worlds_, a companion magazine to John W. Campbell, Jr.'s
_Astounding_ [now _Analog_]. _Unknown_ (to use its original, and
confusing, title [how would you feel as a newsdealer of a potential
customer came up and asked for "An Unknown magazine"?]) was a
repository for some of the finer modern fantasies of recent times.
The war (to quote Archie Bunker, "The big W-W-two") killed it, and
it never quite was justifiable to Street & Smith to start it up
again. However, besides some really good yarns by established authors
such as Tony Boucher and Jack Williamson, it had the nigh-on perfect
illustrations by Edd Cartier. Ahh, for those good old days!
Well, cheer up. I can unofficially report that there will be a
kind of revival. There are apparently going to be two (that's right,
not one, but two) collections of vintage _Unknown Worlds_ stories
coming out in 1988. One should appear about midyear; the other,
shortly after. If things don't change, they'll be put out by different
publishers.
If they sell well enough, well... maybe the current publisher of
_Analog_ [Davis Pubs] will be encouraged to revive the magazine.
Anyway, couldn't hurt....
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 550.1 | vague memory | SPMFG1::CHARBONND | I took my hands off the wheel | Mon Dec 07 1987 13:00 | 7 |
| Some years ago a paperback collection of 'Unknown' stories was
published. Don't think I still have it. The editor had sold a
story to the magazine which went unpublished as the 'zine folded
before his story was used. Aasimov, maybe. Memory deterioration,
alas.
Dana
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| 550.2 | | AKOV11::BOYAJIAN | The Dread Pirate Roberts | Tue Dec 08 1987 02:15 | 8 |
| re:.1
D.R. Bensen edited two anthologies in the early 60's for Pyramid
Books: THE UNKNOWN and THE UNKNOWN 5, both of which contained
stories taken from UNKNOWN (WORLDS). The latter book has the
Asimov story you're thinking of.
--- jerry
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