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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science-Fiction_Plus>
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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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
faze:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faze>
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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>
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