Fantasy Book was a semi-professional American science fiction magazine
that published eight issues between 1947 and 1951. The listed editor,
"Garret Ford", was a pseudonym for William L. Crawford and his wife,
Margaret; the publisher was Crawford's Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
Crawford had problems distributing the magazine, and his budget limited
the quality of the paper he could afford and the artwork he was able to
buy, but he attracted submissions from some well-known writers,
including Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, A. E. van Vogt, Robert Bloch, and
L. Ron Hubbard. Cordwainer Smith's first sale, "Scanners Live in Vain",
appeared in the magazine, and was later included in the first Science
Fiction Hall of Fame anthology; it is now regarded as one of Smith's
finest works. Jack Gaughan, later an award-winning science fiction
artist, made his first professional sale to Fantasy Book, for the cover
illustrating Smith's story (pictured).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Book>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1674:
Shivaji, who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the
Sultanate of Bijapur and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first
Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji>
1813:
War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near
present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stoney_Creek>
1943:
The first game of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball
League, the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the
United States, was played.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-American_Girls_Professional_Baseball_League>
1985:
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for
human experiments performed on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu
das Artes, Brazil.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele>
2004:
During a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament,
President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam announced that Tamil was to be made the
first legally recognised classical language of India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
enemy line:
1. (military, also figuratively, by extension, usually in the
plural) The boundary of the territory controlled by the enemy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enemy_line>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore
it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."
--William Ralph Inge
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Ralph_Inge>