Marvel Science Stories was a U.S. pulp magazine with fifteen issues in
two separate runs, both edited by Robert O. Erisman and published by
Abraham and Martin Goodman. The first issue, dated August 1938, carried
stories with more sexual content than was usual for the genre, including
several stories by Henry Kuttner. Reader reaction was generally
negative; one referred to Kuttner's story "The Time Trap" as
"trash".
The magazine was cancelled after the April 1941 issue, but when a boom
in science fiction magazines began in 1950, the publishers revived it.
The first issue of the new series was dated November 1950; a further six
issues appeared, with the last dated May 1952. Contributors to the first
run included Arthur J. Burks and Jack Williamson; the second run
published stories by better-known writers, including Arthur C. Clarke,
Isaac Asimov, Jack Vance and L. Sprague de Camp. The second incarnation
of the magazine did not succeed in the more competitive market of the
1950s; even the writers who sold to Marvel Tales were publishing their
best work elsewhere.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Science_Stories>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1689:
Glorious Revolution: Mary Stuart and her husband William III of
Orange were proclaimed co-rulers of England and Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England>
1867:
Work began on the covering of the Senne, burying the polluted
main waterway in Brussels to allow urban renewal in the centre of the
city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering_of_the_Senne>
1913:
Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama, declared the independence
of Tibet from Qing China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Dalai_Lama>
1960:
African American college students staged the first of the
Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, part
of a nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sit-ins>
2012:
The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space
Agency.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_(rocket)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
beloved:
Someone who is loved; something that is loved.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beloved>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it
is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox
in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or
force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
--Robert H. Jackson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson>
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