Unknown was an American pulp fantasy fiction magazine, published from
1939 to 1943 and edited by John W. Campbell. Unknown was a companion to
Astounding Science Fiction, also edited by Campbell; many authors and
illustrators contributed to both. Campbell wanted to publish a fantasy
magazine with more finesse and humor than Weird Tales, the leading
fantasy magazine in the 1930s. Campbell required his authors to avoid
simplistic horror fiction and insisted that the fantasy elements be
developed logically. Notable stories included several well-received
novels by L. Ron Hubbard and Fritz Leiber's "Two Sought Adventure", the
first in his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. Unknown was forced to a
bimonthly schedule in 1941 by poor sales, and cancelled in 1943 when
wartime paper shortages forced Campbell to choose between turning
Astounding into a bimonthly or ending Unknown. The magazine is generally
regarded as the finest fantasy fiction magazine ever published, despite
the fact that it was not commercially successful.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_%28magazine%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1782:
Construction began on the Grand Palace in Bangkok, the official
residence of the king of Thailand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palace>
1937:
The German airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed
(newsreel featured) during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air
Station in New Jersey, killing 36 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_129_Hindenburg>
1941:
American entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show with the
United Service Organizations, beginning a career that lasted 50 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope>
2010:
Exacerbated by high-frequency traders using strategies that
have since been banned, major U.S. stock indices dropped nearly
9 percent and quickly rebounded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
staid:
1. Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.
2. (rare) Always fixed in the same location; stationary.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/staid>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times;
if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are
the worst of times.
--Randall Jarrell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Randall_Jarrell>