Title: Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy (August, 1955)
Authors: Poul Anderson, Henry Kuttner, C.L. Moore, Anthony Boucher, and Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Cover artist: Ed Emshwiller
Yours for: SOLD!
Best things about this cover:
- Farmer Ted Goes to Planet Blortron
- If Norman Rockwell did paintings about interstellar, interspecies sexual confusion, they might look something like this: "Wheeeere are youuuuuu goinnnng!? Youuuuu sed youuuuu luvved meeeeee... Take this hellllmet off riiight nowwww..."
- I love the highly underrated Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, and I'm pretty sure I bought this magazine ONLY because she had a story in it (she's more an eerie thriller writer than a scifi writer, normally)
Best things about this back cover:
- Well if Eva Gabor and Guy Lombardo say so, who am I to disagree?
- Love the font on "IMAGINATION."
- "Better newsstands" ... ??? "Man, this is one classy newsstand! ... it's got an awning and everything!"
Page 123~
from "The Tiddlywink Warriors" by Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson
Too late, Alex remembered that he had left Toka without a supply of the potent liquor which was so much a part of everyday Hoka life. Whether known as wine, red-eye, rum, grog, uisgebeatha or Old Spaceman, it was always present in wholesale quantities. Now, for the first time, Alex found himself with a bunch who had it not.
When I am a very elderly man, living on some lunar outpost because of nuclear war / End Times, I will drink "Old Spaceman." Proudly.
~RP
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