THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION - 120 Digital Issues

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MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION - 120 Digital IssuesOffered today is a fabulous collection of the first 120 Golden Age issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in digital form. Each issue has been scanned, cover-to-cover, for viewing on a computer or tablet. Starting with the premiere issue in 1949, the set contains every issue through June 1961 collected on two DVDs.The magazine, which started out as The Magazine of Fantasy with the Fall 1949 issue, has for more than 60 years, published some of the best stories by the most famous names in the field. Such authors as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, James Blish, Ray Bradbury, A. E. van Vogt, Poul Anderson, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Arthur C. Clarke and many, many more have graced it's pages...far too many to list them all here.Author Anthony Boucher was it's first editor and his Berkeley, California residence served as the magazine's office. Boucher created the magazine to elevate science fiction and fantasy literature above it's pulp magazine roots by publishing stories with adult themes rather than the childish "Buck Rogers" type of stories of the past. He wrote insightful introductions for each story that were as popular with fans as the stories themselves. Most early issues contained rare and hard to find reprints from the past.All of the early issues are read more