By John Clute, Peter Nicholls
Encompassing 4,360 entries that supply serious perception and biographical and bibliographical information, an up-to-date version of a favored technology fiction reference includes a conscientiously cross-referenced structure.
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The alien-menace story remained dominant in sf for many years; its popularity did not begin to wane until the outbreak of WWII, and it has never been in danger of dying out. Such xenophobia eventually became unfashionable in the more reputable magazines, but monstrous aliens maintained their popularity in less sophisticated outlets. The CINEMA lagged behind written sf in this respect, producing a host of cheap MONSTER MOVIES during the 1950s and 1960s, although there was a belated boom in innocent and altruistic aliens in films of the 1970s.
Ed Robert Hobard Davis. AS appeared monthly Jan 1905-Mar 1914, weekly from 7 Mar 1914 (as All-Story Weekly), incorporated Cavalier Weekly (The CAVALIER) to form All-Story Cavalier Weekly from 16 May 1914, and reverted to All-Story Weekly 15 May 1915-17 July 1920, when it merged with Argosy Weekly to form Argosy All-Story Weekly (The ARGOSY). TAS was the most prolific publisher of sf among the pre-1926 pulp magazines; it became important through its editor's discovery of several major authors.
TAC's circulation became quite wide, and it effectively became a SEMIPROZINE. In pain from arthritis, Geis cancelled the magazine after 61, Nov 1986, though he continued to publish shorter, more personal fanzines under other titles. Science Fiction Review was revived as a semiprozine in 1989, with some fiction added to the old SFR mix; 10 issues to May 1992, none since, ed Elton Elliott. The schedule changed from quarterly to monthly with 5, Dec 1991, at which point the magazine also began to be sold at newsstands.
