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.
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
- Amateur Science Stories in Internet Speculative Fiction Database
| 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 'The Venus Vein', his second published story |
| 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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