Planet Stories

Planet Stories

"Planet Stories" was a pulp science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House with a total of 71 issues appeared between 1939 and 1955. It featured a particular kind of romantic, swashbuckling adventure in a science fiction context, and was renowned for its colorful covers, typically featuring a young woman in (for the time) rather scanty apparel. For a brief time it was edited by Jerome Bixby. Twenty years later many of these stories were reprinted in paperback as space opera or science fantasy.

Reprints of "Planet Stories", published under the same title, were published in the United Kingdom from March 1950 through September 1954 and in Canada from Fall 1948 through March 1951.

Famous contributors

Among the authors who were spotlighted in "Planet Stories" were:
* Poul Anderson
* Leigh Brackett
* Ray Bradbury
* Alfred Coppel
* Philip K. Dick's first published story Beyond Lies the Wub and others

Planet Stories novels

In 2007, Paizo Publishing announced a line of re-printed classic science fantasy novels also called Planet Stories. Their first four books are "Almuric" by Robert E. Howard, "The Anubis Murders" by Gary Gygax, "City of the Beast/Warrior of Mars" by Michael Moorcock, and "Black God's Kiss" by C.L. Moore. Paizo Publishing's [http://paizo.com/paizo/news/v5748eaic9kgf press release] stated the Gygax and Howard novels would be out in August 2007 with the others releasing one at a time over the following months. Other announced authors include Leigh Brackett and Henry Kuttner.

External links

* [http://www.philsp.com/data/data244.html#PLANETSTORIES Publication details] including editors, dates, page counts, prices and some sample covers.
* [http://www.paizo.com/planetstories Paizo Publishing] 's Planet Stories website.


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