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''Space Science Fiction Magazine'' was a US science fiction magazine published by Republic Features Syndicate, Inc. as part of a package of radio shows and related genre magazines. Two issues appeared, both in 1957. It published short stories by well-known writers, including Arthur C. Clarke and Jack Vance, but it was not successful, and the magazine ceased publication late in 1957. __NOTOC__ ==Publication history and bibliographic data== Science fiction was one of the staple genres of American pulp magazine publishing, beginning in 1926 with ''Amazing Stories''. A brief boom in the late 1930s was cut short by World War II, but the field expanded again in the late 1940s.〔Nicholls & Clute, "Genre SF", p. 483, and Edwards & Nicholls, "SF Magazines", pp. 1066–1071, both in Clute & Nicholls, ''Encyclopedia of Science Fiction''.〕 By 1957 the boom had reached its height;〔Ashley, ''The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 4'', p. 23.〕 24 science fiction magazines published at least one issue that year.〔Magazine publishing dates for the period are tabulated in Ashley, ''The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 4'', pp. 270–271.〕 One of the most prominent of these magazines, ''Galaxy Science Fiction'', had a successful association with two radio shows, Dimension X and X Minus One. This sparked imitators, and during 1956 Lyle Kenyon Engel of Republic Features Syndicate put together a package of two radio shows and four magazines. The shows were ''American Agent'', a spy drama, and ''The Frightened'', to be narrated by Boris Karloff. The magazine package included a spy magazine and a horror magazine to tie in with the radio shows, and two additional titles: ''Private Investigator Detective Magazine'' and ''Space Science Fiction Magazine''. ''Private Investigator'' ''Space SF'' Both issues were digest-sized, with 132 pages, and were priced at 35 cents. The issues were numbered as a single volume with two issues.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Space Science Fiction Magazine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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