Venture Science Fiction was an American science fiction magazine
published from 1957 to 1958, and revived for a brief run in 1969 and
1970. There were ten issues of the 1950s version, and six in the second
run. Robert P. Mills edited the 1950s version, and Edward L. Ferman was
editor for the second run. A British edition ran for 28 issues between
1963 and 1965 reprinting material from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science
Fiction as well as from the US edition of Venture. An Australian edition
was identical to the British version but dated two months later. The
1950's version was only moderately successful, failing due to poor sales
within two years. The publisher, Joseph W. Ferman, said that he wanted
well-told stories of action and adventure; the resulting fiction
contained more sex and violence than was usual for the genre in the late
1950s, and science fiction historian Mike Ashley has noted that the
magazine was ahead of its time. The second US version was also
unsuccessful, with poorer cover art and little in the way of notable
fiction. By the end of 1970, Venture had ceased publication permanently.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_Science_Fiction>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1885:
Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier
defeated a larger Qing Chinese force at the Battle of Núi Bop in
northern Vietnam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_N%C3%BAi_Bop>
1936:
Billboard magazine published its first music hit parade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_%28magazine%29>
1972:
Rose Heilbron became the first female judge to sit at the
Central Criminal Court of England and Wales.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Heilbron>
2004:
Spirit, the first of two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration
Rover mission, successfully landed on Mars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_%28rover%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shorthand:
1. A rough and rapid method of writing by substituting symbols for
letters, words, etc.
2. (by extension) Any brief or shortened way of saying or doing
something.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shorthand>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction; or the
mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and
directed to contrary parts.
--Isaac Newton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton>
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