Amateur Science Stories
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Amateur Science Stories was a fanzine edited by Douglas W. F. Mayer for the Science Fiction Association at Leeds, England. There were three issues from October 1937 to March 1938 and it included early works by Arthur C. Clarke, William F. Temple, and Eric C. Williams. Page count ranged from 9-18 pages.
Its objective was to publish worthwhile fiction by new writers, and it had a selection board to judge submissions. This was comprised of Mayer, Ted Carnell, Maurice K. Hanson, Herbert Warnes, Dr. W. Arthur Gibson and Festus Pragnell. The editor claimed that Amateur Science Stories was discontinued because there was not enough material of a high standard to fill it.
| Issue | Date | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 1937 | 9 | includes Temple's 'Mr. Craddock's Life-Line', his second published story |
| 2 | December 1937 | 18 | includes Clarke's 'Travel by Wire!', his first published work; and Williams's 'Mr. Hazel's Miracle Carpet' and 'The Venus Vein', his first published stories |
| 3 | March 1938 | 18 | includes Clarke's 'Retreat From Earth', and 'How We Went to Mars'. The latter story won a 1939 Best Short Story Retro Hugo. Also Williams's 'My First Space-Ship'. Final issue |
- Amateur Science Stories online at fanac.org
| Publication | 1937—1938 |
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