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DEFENSE BASE ON
THE
MOON-Two robot missiles,
directed by base radio control and radar, leave their
launching racks in pursuit of a foreign craft which has
failed to acknowledge radio communications and identify
itself. With their nose cameros they will send a televised
image of the croft bock to the defense bose.
If
the croft
is hostile, the "missiles are directed to destroy it. Time:
down. First hard sun rays hit crater peaks; Earth still
lights bose. Now turn to inside back cover.
WORLDS of SCIENCE FICTION
MARCH
All Stories New and Complete
Editor: JAMES L. QUINN
Art Director: ED V A LIG U R SK V
Cover:
Landing on Deimus
By Ken Fagg
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SHORT NOVEL
D E A D L Y C I T Y by Ivar Jorgenson
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NOVELETTE
T H Y N A M E IS W O M A N b y Kenneth O 'H a ra
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SHORT STORIES
M A R G I N O F E R R O R by Richard Deem ing
T H E V IC T O R by Bryce W a lto n
T H E S W O R D by Frank Quattrocchi
T H E R O T IF E R S by Robert A b ern athy
T H E B L A C K T ID E by A rth u r G. Stongland
T H E S A L E S M A N by W a ld o T . Boyd
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FEATURES
A C H A T W IT H T H E E D IT O R
P E R S O N A L IT IE S I N S C IE N C E
S C IE N C E B R IE F S
TH E PO STM AN COMETH
COVER PIC TO R IAL: Defense Base on the M o o n
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IF is published bi-monthly by Quinn Publishing Company, In /. Volume 2, N o. 1.
Copyright 1953 by Quinn Publishing C o., Inc. Office of publication, 8 L ora Street,
Buffalo, New York. Entered as Second Class Matter at Post Office, Buffalo, New
York, subscription $3.50 for 12 issues in U .S. and Possessions; Canada $4 lo r 12
issues; elsewhere $4.50. Allow four weeks for change o f address. All stories appear*
ing in this magazine are fiction; any similarity to actual persons is coincidental.
Not responsible for unsolicited artwork or manuscripts. 35c a copy. Printed in U .S.A.
EDITORIAL A N D BUSINESS OFFICES, KINGSTON, NEW YO RK
Next issue on sale March 11th
A CHAT W ITH
THE EDITOR
IN JANUARY 1952 a new science
fiction magazine called IF was born
and appeared quietly and un­
heralded on the newsstands. W ith
this issue, that magazine is one year
old. Actually, this is the first issue o f
the second year. N ow, in the light
o f other magazines with tenures o f
20
or
10
or even five years, a first
birthday isn’t particularly im por­
tant. But it
is
somewhat significant
in the case o f IF , because it seems
to indicate— after a year of slow,
steady growth— that the infant is
going to live.
During the past year we have
worked hard to make each succeed­
ing issue one o f improvement. W e
have tried to secure better stories,
better artwork, better editorial ef­
fort in producing a m ore interest­
ing, more attractive science fiction
magazine fo r your entertainment.
A n d when we com pare V olum e 2,
Num ber 1 with V olum e 1, Number
1
, we feel a certain amount of satis­
faction. N ot that the ultimate has
been achieved by a long, long shot.
N ot that this issue represents the
best we can do. But because we
have learned and progressed with
each succeeding issue and feel that
this issue is an improvement over
the first six. A n d the fact that circu ­
lation has responded to such nour­
ishment seems to indicate that
you,
too, think it is improving.
So this is IF ’s first birthday, and
don’ t think we haven’ t walked the
floor at night with it, incurred some
sweet headaches and magnificent
hangovers. W e’ve had some w on­
derful fun, too. Also— we’ve found
that a lot o f swell people were will­
ing to help with the feeding, the
burping and diaper changing.
Artists and writers and agents have
been cooperative and w illing; the
printers have been patient and un­
derstanding; the engravers always
ready with a helping h an d ; the p a ­
per makers always p rom p t; some o f
the best circulation guys to ever
handle a magazine have bent over
backwards to put the baby out
where you can see it ; and you,
sweet reader, have been indulgent
and interested and willing enough
to plunk dow n thirty-five cents in
coin o f the realm to take a look at
the b r a t . . . All In all, a lot o f nice
people have had a hand in helping
the infant IF learn to walk. Another
year o f this sort o f attention and the
kid’ ll be climbing fences'.
INCIDENTALLY, on e o f the big
stories in IF ’ s young life is appear­
ing in the next issue. It’ s called
Jupiter Five
and was written by
Arthur C. Clarke, Chairman o f
the British Interplanetary Society.
One of the world’ s authorities on
the subject, Mr. Clarke has a
month, friendly style of writing
tluit lends to a space adventure the
easy familiarity of a walk around
the block. His
Exploration of
Space
was a Book-of-the-Month
Club selection last fall. K en Fagg,
cover artist for this issue, is (as this
is written) reading the manuscript
of
Jupiter Five
for a cover idea.
Mr. Fagg, who recently caught the
science fiction bug, is now a lead­
ing artist in other fields and it’s a
pretty safe bet he’ll soon be among
the top artists in science fiction.
NOT SO long ago I had my first op ­
portunity to meet personally a large
representation o f the real fandom
of science fiction— a bunch o f guys
and gals who got to Chicago via
train, bus, plane, auto, boat and
pogo-stick to attend the 10th World
Science Fiction Convention. And I
was really amazed to see the hun­
dreds o f young folks so keenly (and
rabidly) interested in science fic­
tion. I had the pleasant experience
of talking with quite a few and I
found each one eager, alert, and
wise as to what was happening in
the world of science fiction. M any
o f them could tell you what illustra­
tion appeared on what page of such
and such magazine in an issue that
must have been published while
they were about the same age as IF.
They knew the latest stories, and
the authors, when and where they
appeared, and would tell you, with­
out mincing words, what they
thought o f diem. At the auction, a
lot o f them hocked the family
homestead to take home a cover
painting, an interior illustration or
a manuscript. These young people
( I ’m not including the pros, the
editors, agents, authors, etc.) came
from all over the U SA, and lots of
them saved their own hard-earned
cash for a year in order to make the
trip. Unlike a business or political
convention, they didn’ t stand to
make money on this deal, they did
it because they were crazy about
science fiction.
O ne who seemed to m e to typi­
fy the spirit o f the convention is
a gangling, blond, be-spectacled
young man of nineteen named Jim
Webbert. H e is one of those who
had been feeding the piggy bank
for a year in order to make the trip
— and believe me, brother, he
wasn’ t going to miss a trick. He
knew more about what was going
on and where than the whole staff
o f house dicks; he was up and down
the hotel more than the elevators,
and he could tell practically any­
body what kind o f cigarette he
smoked, whether he preferred tea
to coffee, and what his particular
niche in science fiction happened to
be. Jim lives in Salt Lafte City,
Utah, is a senior in college, where
he is majoring in chemical engi­
neering, and during the summer he
has been working as a meter reader
to earn expenses. W hile in high
school he started reading science
fiction— which decided him on
chemical engineering as a career. I
don’ t think it requires m uch o f a
prophet to predict he’ll g o a long
way.
So I’m glad I met these young
people who represent science fiction
fandom. I’m glad they live in
America. I ’m glad I ’ m working on
a science fiction magazine.
— jlq

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