Science Fantasy & Impulse

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Science Fantasy & Impulse

Science Fantasy was launched by Nova Publications in 1950 as a companion piece to New Worlds. For the first two issue it had a separate editor, Walter Gillings, but from the third issue on both magazines were edited by John Carnell until they were both sold to Roberts & Vinter in 1964. At that point the magazine shifted to a paperback format, with Kyril Bonfiglioli as editor, but he was never happy with the title and, after two years, changed it to Impulse and restarted the numbering from #1. This move was not a great success and, after only six months, the name changed again, to sf Impulse, and Bonfiglioli left the following month. The magazine struggled on under the editorship first of Harry Harrison & then of Keith Roberts, but after a total of only 12 issues merged with New Worlds, which itself folded with the following issue.

Science Fantasy Yearbook, which was renamed Science Fantasy with the second issue, had no connection with the earlier magazine and was simply a reprint magazine that drew on the back files of Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures.

Science Fantasy

Note that, between 1960 and 1963, notations like "printed 2/60" appeared in the lower right corner of the contents page and were the closest thing to dates that appeared in most issues. These have been translated into dates for the sake of the table below. From 1964 to 1966, the dates were specified explicitly on the magazine.

1950
v1 #1
Summer
v1 #2
Winter

1951
v1 #3
Winter

1952
v2 #4
Spring
v2 #5
Autumn

1953
v2 #6
Spring

1954
v3 #7
v3 #8
v3 #9
v4 #10
v4 #11

1955
v4 #12
v5 #13
v5 #14
v5 #15
v6 #16

1956
v6 #17
v6 #18
v7 #19
v7 #20

1957
v7 #21
v8 #22
v8 #23
v8 #24
v9 #25
v9 #26

1958
v9 #27
v10 #28
v10 #29
v10 #30
v11 #31
v11 #32

1959
v11 #33
v12 #34
v12 #35
v12 #36
v13 #37
v13 #38

1960
v13 #39
Feb
v14 #40
Apr
v14 #41
Jun
v14 #42
Aug
v15 #43
Oct
v15 #44
Dec

1961
v15 #45
Feb
v16 #46
Apr
v16 #47
Jun
v16 #48
Aug
v17 #49
Oct
v17 #50
Dec

1962
v17 #51
Feb
v18 #52
Apr
v18 #53
Jun
v18 #54
Aug
v19 #55
Oct
v19 #56
Dec

1963
v19 #57
Feb
v20 #58
Apr
v20 #59
Jun
v20 #60
Aug
v21 #61
Oct
v21 #62
Dec

1964
v21 #63
Feb
v22 #64
Apr
v22 #65
Jun
v22 #66
Jul
v22 #67
Sep
v22 #68
Dec

1965
v23 #69
Jan
v23 #70
Mar
v23 #71
Apr
v23 #72
May
v24 #73
Jun
v24 #74
Jul
v24 #75
Aug
v24 #76
Sep
v24 #77
Oct
v24 #78
Nov
v24 #79
Dec

1966
v24 #80
Jan
v24 #81
Feb
v1 #1
Mar
v1 #2
Apr
v1 #3
May
v1 #4
Jun
v1 #5
Jul
v1 #6
Aug
v1 #7
Sep
v1 #8
Oct
v1 #9
Nov
v1 #10
Dec

1967
v1 #11
Jan
v1 #12
Feb

Science Fantasy (Yearbook)

1970	X	#2 Fll
1971	#3 Wtr	#4 Spr