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).

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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