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Issue Details: First known date: 1953... 1953 Future Science Fiction
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Early Australian science-fiction magazine that, like most of its contemporaries, largely reprinted American material. Mike Ashley notes that Future Science Fiction was a companion publication to Popular Science Fiction, and suggests that, like other early Australian science-fiction magazines, they were 'more like anthologies than magazines since they had no editorial persona' (p.294).

Nevertheless, Future Science Fiction did publish some Australian content, including a story by Norma Hemming (q.v.), Australia's first significant female science-fiction writer: her story 'As We Were' appeared in issue 5 (November 1954).

Source: Mike Ashley, Transformations: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970, Liverpool University Press, 2005.

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First known date: 1953

PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Frequency:
Quarterly, but irregular. Issues appeared in July and November 1953; March, July, and December 1954; and March 1955.
Range:
No. 1 (Jul. 1953) - no. 6 (Mar. 1955)
Price:
One shilling and threepence (issues 1 and 2); one shilling and sixpence (issues 3 to six).
Note:
In 1967, Sydney-based Page Publications reprinted two of the original issues, with re-drawn and re-coloured cover illustrations (based on the original cover art): issue 4 (reprinted April 1967) and issue 6 (reprinted September 1967). These reprints were priced at twenty cents.
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