-------------------------------------- MINN-STF NEWSLETTER 6 :: PAGE TWO -------------------------------------- NEW FANTASY MAGAZINE FROM GALAXY PUBLICATIONS Galaxy Publications will issue their new fantasy magazine. WORLDS OF FANTASY in June or July. This is to be an all-fantasy magazine and will be edited by Lester Del Rey. As far as the editor can tell, the magazine will be issued without schedule (as INTERNATIONAL SF has been) until it becomes an established magazine, or until it folds. ROBERT W. LOWNDES, HEALTH*KNOWLDEDGE PUBLICATIONS, PUT MAGAZINES ON NEW BIMONTHLY PUBLISHING BASIS. Robert W. Lowndes, editor of MAGAZINE OF HORROR, FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION, STARTLING MYSTERY, and WORLD-WIDE ADVENTURE, announced in the latest issues of the magazines that all of the magazines would be published bimonthly, and that subscriptions would be taken for these magazines. While these magazines are basically reprint magazines, they do take orginal work and publish it. (Right now, all of the magazines are about half-and-half origianl and reprint material.) Lowndes' editorial judgement is much better than the people at AMAZING and FANTASTIC, in the editor's hevy-handed opinion, and all of the magazines are much more enjoyable than any but the most recent AMAZINGs and FANTASTICs. MAGAZINE OF HORROR and STARTLING MYSTERY are available at Shinder's on the corner of Hennepin and 5th, downtown Minneapolis. (Price is 50cents per copy.) MAGAZINE REVIEWS. AMAZING. (50cents.) June, 1968. This is probably the last issue of AMAZING to be edited by Harry Harrison. In the next issue someone else will take over the job. With this issue however, you get something GOOD. You get a short-novel by Samuel R. Delany. It's a segment of the soon-t-be published Delany novel, NOVA. This novella is entitled "House- a-Fire." This story is one of those things that you can't talk about without giving the plot away. All I can say is that this is the first issue of AMAZING that has any reason to be sold since 1965. IF. (60cents.) June, 1968. In this issue, the headliner stories are ROGUE STAR (part two of a serial by Pohl and Williamson), SLEEPER WITH STILL HANDS (by Harlan Elli- son), and a new science column by Lester Del Rey called "If...and When." The serial isn't finished yet, but I'm liking it more and more. Williamson evidently wrote this (while Pohl worked out the plot with Jack) and it shows that Williamson's writing style has improved tremen- dously since the early fifties. The writing is evocative, the plot is good. I'll wait until I get the last installment for final judgement. GALAXY. (60cents.) June, 1968. This issue of GALAXY contains the first installment of Fritz Leiber's A SPECTER IS HAUNTING TEXAS. It's a satire, something in the zany vein of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore. THERE IS A TIDE (by Larry Niven) is not exactly one of the Flatlander series...is nonetheless Larry Niven and properly exciting. It's a good think piece and action yarn -- but not really a great story. DREAMER SHCEMER, by Brian W. Aldiss turned me off. That does not mean that you would be turned off by it; I, personally dislike the story. The rest of the magazine hasn't been read yet, but I might mention Willy Ley's FOR YOUR INFORMATION -- it gives you information in a very interesting way....