Publication: If, May 1960

Publication: If, May 1960Publication Record # 58797 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: H. L. Gold
Date: 1960-05-00
Publisher: Digest Productions Corporation
Price:
$0.35^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
Pages: 132
Format:
digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
Type: MAGAZINE
Cover: If, May 1960 (1960) • by Virgil Finlay
Webpages: archive.org
Notes: Vol 10, No 2. Cover art titled "Pin-ups in Space" as noted on the Contents/copyright page (scanned version from archive.org). Interior artwork credited "en masse" to Wood, and Finlay. Individual credits from signatures. The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive, see web page for link.
External IDs:
- FMI: P_1960IFSMAY

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Editor Title: If - 1960 • [If / Worlds of If] • (1960) • edited by H. L. Gold

Contents (view Concise Listing)

6 • A Tourist Named Death • [Dan Redman] • novelette by Christopher Anvil
6 • A Tourist Named Death • interior artwork by Wallace Wood [as by Wood]
37 • Thirty Degrees Cattywonkus • short story by James Bell
48 • When Day Is Done • short story by Arnold Castle
56 • A Pride of Islands • novelette by C. C. MacApp
56 • A Pride of Islands • interior artwork by Wallace Wood [as by Wood]
74 • Heel • short story by
Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer
74 • Heel • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
88 • Worlds of If (If, May 1960) • [Worlds of If (If)] • essay by Frederik Pohl
88 • Review: Science Fiction Showcase by Mary Kornbluth • review by Frederik Pohl
88 • Review: Deals With the Devil by Basil Davenport • review by Frederik Pohl
89 • Review: Man of Many Minds by E. Everett Evans • review by Frederik Pohl
90 • Review: The Planet Killers by Robert Silverberg • review by Frederik Pohl
90 • Review: We Claim These Stars! by Poul Anderson • review by Frederik Pohl
90 • Review: First to the Stars by Rex Gordon • review by Frederik Pohl
90 • Review: The Sea People by Adam Lukens • review by Frederik Pohl
91 • Review: Logic Machines and Diagrams by Martin Gardner • review by Frederik Pohl
91 • Review of Gödel's Proof • essay by Frederik Pohl
92 • Review: Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley • review by Frederik Pohl
92 • Review: The World Swappers by John Brunner • review by Frederik Pohl
92 • Review: Siege of the Unseen by A. E. van Vogt • review by Frederik Pohl
92 • Review: The War Against the Rull by A. E. van Vogt • review by Frederik Pohl
93 • Review: Planet in Peril by John Christopher • review by Frederik Pohl
93 • Review: The Outward Urge by Lucas Parkes and John Wyndham • review by Frederik Pohl
93 • Review: We Who Survived by Sterling Noel • review by Frederik Pohl
93 • Review: Beyond the Night by Cornell Woolrich • review by Frederik Pohl
93 • Review: The Man Who Could Cheat Death by Barre Lyndon and Jimmy Sangster • review by Frederik Pohl
93 • Review: The Dark Destroyers by Manly Wade Wellman • review by Frederik Pohl
94 • A Great Day for the Irish • short story by A. M. Lightner
94 • A Great Day for the Irish • interior artwork by uncredited
106 • Matchmaker • novelette by Charles L. Fontenay
106 • Matchmaker • interior artwork by Wallace Wood [as by Wood]

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Publication: If, May 1960

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