Science Fiction [magazine]
Entry updated 14 April 2025. Tagged: Fan, Publication.
Several relevant Fanzines and SF Magazines have been titled simply Science Fiction. In the late 1930s John W Campbell considered renaming Astounding Science-Fiction as Science Fiction, but was deterred by the appearance of 2 below.
1. Early Amateur Magazine or fiction Fanzine edited by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (the principal illustrator). Five poorly mimeographed issues from October 1932 to mid-1933, the first containing only stories by Siegel under various pseudonyms and the last being undated. Other contributors with entries in this encyclopedia included Clare Winger Harris and Raymond A Palmer. Surviving copies of Science Fiction are rare and much sought after, though very much more for historical and associational than literary reasons. Siegel's own "The Reign of the Superman" in #3 (January 1933) is a first foreshadowing of the Comics character Superman, though here imagined as a Villain rather than a Superhero. [DRL]
2. See Science Fiction Stories, vt Science Fiction 1939-1941.
3. Science*Fiction: one-off mimeographed Fanzine with copyright date 1945, edited by Larry Shaw, Judy Zissman (Judith Merril) and Dan Zissman; distributed through FAPA and VAPA (the Vanguard Amateur Press Association) in January 1946. Contributors other than the editors included James Blish (nonfiction), Robert Bloch (fiction) and John Michel (a poem). [DRL]
4. See Science Fiction [Polish magazine].
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