Science Fiction [magazine]
Entry updated 15 June 2026. 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 (Fantasy Amateur Press Association) and VAPA (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].
links
- Science*Fiction at Fanac.org
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