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An early Australian science-fiction magazine that, like its predecessors, primarily reprinted content from American science-fiction magazines. Like its companion publication Future Science Fiction, however, Popular Science Fiction did include some Australian content, including a short story by Norma Hemming, Australia's first significant female science-fiction writer: her 'Symbiosis' appeared in issue 3 (March 1954).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Coming Down to Earth : Norma Hemming Turns from SF to Romance
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 202-208)
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Coming Down to Earth : Norma Hemming Turns from SF to Romance
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 202-208)
PeriodicalNewspaper Details
Frequency:
Like its companion publication, Future Science Fiction, the publication schedule was most likely quarterly but irregular.
Range:
Volume 1, issue 1 (1953) - volume 1, issue 6 (1955).
Size:
Digest
Price:
One shilling and threepence (issues 1 and 2); One shilling and sixpence (issues 3 to 6).
Note:
In 1967, Sydney-based Page Publications reprinted two of the original issues, with re-drawn and re-coloured cover illustrations (based on the original cover art): issue 4 (reprinted August 1967) and issue 6 (reprinted November 1967). These reprints were priced at twenty cents.
Last amended 22 Jul 2011 12:51:16