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Worlds Beyond

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1950 – Feb-1951: Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Hillman Periodicals
Editors:   Damon Knight
Formats:   digest
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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World's Greatest Love Stories

Country: US

Each issue typically contained reprints of five romantic novels specially edited and condensed for inclusion, although there was the occasional original story.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1983 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Digest Publishing, NJ
Editors:   Lynn Lauber
Formats:   digest
Prices:   $1.75 (although listed as $2.00)
Pagecounts:   144pp
Frequency:   monthly (Jun-1983 - Oct-1983); bimonthly (Nov/Dec-1983 - ?)



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The World's Greatest Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 8

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1929 – Sep-1929: General Fiction Index (Missing: May-1929; Jun-1929; Jul-1929)

Publishers:   World's Greatest Stories Magazine Publishing Corporation (i.e. Macfadden)
Formats:   bedsheet
Prices:   25c
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Worlds Lost...Time Forgotten

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1980 – #3, 1981:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: #1)

Publishers: John W. Smith
Editors: John W. Smith


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World's News

Country: Australia

Weekly newspaper that published a lot of fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 21-Dec-1901 – 31-Dec-1955

Publishers:   The World's News, 60-66 Elizabeth Street, Sydney
Related Sites:   Wikipedia
Online Sources:   Trove

Worlds of Fantasy [1950]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 14

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1950 – #14, 1954: Science Fiction Index

Index to British Science Fiction Magazines
Publishers:   John Spencer & Co
Editors:   Maurice Nahum and Sam Assael
Formats:   pocketbook
Prices:   1/6d
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   irregular
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia



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Worlds of Fantasy [1968]

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources

v1 #1, 1968 – v1 #4, 1971:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers

v1 #1, 1968: Galaxy Publishing Corp
v1 #2, 1970 – v1 #4, 1971: Universal Publishing

Editors

v1 #1, 1968 – v1 #2, 1970: Lester del Rey
v1 #3, 1970/1971 – v1 #4, 1971: Ejler Jakobsson

Formats

digest

Prices

v1 #1, 1968: 60c
v1 #2, 1970 – v1 #4, 1971: 75c

Pagecounts

v1 #1, 1968: 128pp
v1 #2, 1970 – v1 #4, 1971: 192pp

Frequency

first trial issue, then quarterly from Fall 1970

Related Sites

Science Fiction Encyclopedia



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Worlds of Fantasy & Horror

see under Weird Tales

Worlds of If

see under If

Worlds of Possibility

Country: US
Total Issues: 6 (as at Jun-2023)

A collection of original stories, art, and poems selected by Julia Rios and sponsored by Julia's subscribers.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-2022 – present

Website: www.juliarios.com
Editors: Julia Rios

Worlds of Strangeness

Country: UK
Total Issues: 4 (as at Apr-2024)

Horror/SF/fantasy zine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 2016 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #4, Spring/Summer 2021)

Website:   www.worldsofstrangeness.com
Publishers:   Nigel Taylor
Editors:   Nigel Taylor
Formats:   A5



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Worlds of the Universe

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1953: Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Gould-Light Publishing, London
Editors:   probably Norman Light
Formats:   pocketbook
Prices:   1/6d
Pagecounts:   102pp
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia


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Worlds of the Unknown

Country: UK
Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources:  2015 – present: Science Fiction Index (Missing: #4, 2016; #5, 2017)

Publishers:   Spectre Press
Editors:   Jon Harvey



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Worlds of Tomorrow

Country: US
Total Issues: 23+3=26

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1963 – May-1967:

Science Fiction Index

#merges with If

Summer 1970 – Spring 1971:

Science Fiction Index

Frequency

mostly bimonthly to May-1966, then quarterly

Related Sites

Science Fiction Encyclopedia



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Worlds of Tomorrow (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 4

British reprint edition of Worlds of Tomorrow

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1967 – Winter 1967:

Science Fiction Index

Frequency: quarterly

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World Stories

Country: UK
Total Issues: 86

An adventure magazine with stories almost certainly drawn from the US Clayton pulps. Initially heavy emphasis on westerns but broadened to all kinds of adventure stories.

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1928 – May-1935:

Adventure Fiction Index

(Missing: Jun-1928; Dec-1930)

Publishers

Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd.

Formats

standard pulp

Pagecounts

Apr-1928 – Jan-1932: 192pp
Feb-1932 – May-1935: 128pp

Frequency

monthly

Mentioned in: The Age of the Storytellers



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World's Work

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  1900 – 1932: Index to Periodical Literature (to 1906 only; absorbed by Review of Reviews)

Publishers:   Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., NY
Editors:   Walter Hines Page (1900 - 1913)
Frequency:   monthly



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World's Work (UK)

Country: UK

British reprint edition of World's Work.

Issues & Index Sources: 1902 – ?