Science-Fiction Plus was a U.S. science fiction magazine published by Hugo Gernsback for seven issues in 1953, his first involvement in the genre since 1936, when he sold Wonder Stories. The managing editor, Sam Moskowitz, published many writers who had been popular before World War II, such as Raymond Gallun, Eando Binder, and Harry Bates. Combined with Gernsback's earnest editorials on the educational power of science fiction, the stories gave the magazine an anachronistic feel. Sales were initially good, but soon fell. Moskowitz was able to obtain fiction from some of the better-known writers of the day, including Clifford D. Simak, Murray Leinster, Robert Bloch, and Philip José Farmer, and some of their stories were well-received, including "Spacebred Generations", by Simak, "Strange Compulsion", by Farmer, and "Nightmare Planet", by Leinster. Science fiction historians consider the magazine a failed attempt to reproduce the early days of the science fiction pulps.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1806:

Indian sepoys mutinied against the East India Company at Vellore Fort, killing at least 100 British troops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellore_mutiny

1940:

The Luftwaffe began attacks on British convoys in the English Channel to start the Battle of Britain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain

1973:

John Paul Getty III, grandson of American oil magnate J. Paul Getty, was kidnapped in Rome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Getty_III

2011:

The Russian river cruise liner Bulgaria was caught in a storm in Tatarstan on the Volga River and sank in several minutes, resulting in 122 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria_(ship)

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faze:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faze

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

If at least, time enough were alloted to me to accomplish my work, I would not fail to mark it with the seal of Time, the idea of which imposed itself upon me with so much force to-day, and I would therein describe men, if need be, as monsters occupying a place in Time infinitely more important than the restricted one reserved for them in space, a place, on the contrary, prolonged immeasurably since, simultaneously touching widely separated years and the distant periods they have lived through — between which so many days have ranged themselves — they stand like giants immersed in Time.   --Marcel Proust https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust