Authentic Science Fiction was a British science fiction magazine published in the 1950s that ran for 85 issues. The magazine was published by Hamilton and Co., and began in 1951 as a series of novels appearing every two weeks; by the summer it had become a monthly magazine, with readers' letters and an editorial page, though fiction content was still restricted to a single novel. In 1952 short fiction began to appear alongside the novels, and within two more years it had completed the transformation into a science fiction magazine. Authentic published little in the way of important or ground-breaking fiction, though it did print Charles L. Harness's "The Rose", which later became well-regarded. The poor rates of pay—£1 per 1,000 words—prevented the magazine from attracting the best writers. During much of its life it competed against three other moderately successful British science fiction magazines, as well as the American science fiction magazine market. Hamilton folded the magazine in October 1957, because they needed cash to finance an investment in the UK rights to an American best-selling novel.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

590:

Gregory I became pope, the first one to come from a monastic background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_I

1189:

Richard the Lionheart was crowned King of England in Westminster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England

1838:

Future American abolitionist Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

1901:

The National Flag of Australia, a Blue Ensign defaced with the Commonwealth Star and the Southern Cross, flew for the first time atop the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Australia

1942:

The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against their Nazi captors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81achwa_Ghetto

2001:

The Troubles: Protestant loyalists began picketing a Catholic primary school for girls in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, Belfast, Northern Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_dispute

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

chirality: The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which an object differs from its mirror image. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chirality

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper— whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. --Sarah Orne Jewett https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sarah_Orne_Jewett