Visions of Paradise

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Prozines

Recently I received in the mail 17 issues of Worlds of IF, all published from 1952 through 1961. I have the complete run of the magazines from 1962 through its demise in 1974, and it is one of my favorite fiction magazines ever (along with Galaxy of which I have the complete run from 1950 through 1980). I currently have slightly more than 1,200 issues of fiction magazine, nearly all of them science fiction magazines. The exceptions are 16 issues of fantasy magazines and 17 issues of Chinese Literature. In some ways I prefer reading fiction magazines and fiction anthologies than I do novels, which tend to be bloated rather than concise. Here are the magazines of which I have the most issues in my collection:

Fantasy & Science Fiction / 1969 - current / 407 issues
Galaxy / 1950 - 1980 / 247 issues
Asimov’s / 1977 - 2008 / 207 issues
Worlds of IF / 1952 - 1974 / 148 issues
Analog / 1967 - 1986 / 56 issues
Worlds of Tomorrow / 1963 - 1971 / 26 issues
Ultimate reprint titles / various dates / 22 issues
Amazing / 1957 - 1983 / 21 issues
Tomorrow / #1 - 19 / 19 issues
Chinese Literature / 1993 - 2000 / 17 issues
Science Fiction Age / 1992 - 1996 / 13 issues
Postscripts / #1-8 / 8 issues
Realms of Fantasy / 1994 - 1995 / 6 issues
Interzone / various dates / 5 issues
Paradox / various dates / 5 issues
Venture / 1969- 1970 / 5 issues

And here are the series of anthologies which I have the most volumes of:

Dozois, Gardner (ed) / The Year’s Best Science Fiction / 25 volumes
various editors / Nebula Award Stories / 19 volumes
Carr, Terry (ed) / The Best Science Fiction of the Year / 15 volumes
Carr, Terry (ed) / Universe / 14 volumes
Asimov & Greenberg (ed) / Science Fiction: The Great Years / 13 volumes
Silverberg, Robert (ed.) / Alpha / 9 volumes
Carr & Wollheim (ed) / Year’s Best Science Fiction / 7 volumes
Knight, Damon (ed) / Orbit / 7 volumes
Silverberg, Robert (ed) / New Dimensions / 5 volumes
Asimov, Isaac (ed) / The Hugo Winners / 4 volumes
Asimov & Greenberg (ed) / Short Novels of the Decade / 4 volumes
Strahan, Jonathan (ed) / Best Short Novels / 4 volumes

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