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Wonder Stories was an early science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, when his media company Experimenter Publishing went bankrupt. Within a few months of the bankruptcy, Gernsback launched three new magazines: Air Wonder Stories, Science Wonder Stories and Science Wonder Quarterly.
Air Wonder Stories and Science Wonder Stories were merged in 1930 as Wonder Stories, and the quarterly was renamed Wonder Stories Quarterly. The magazines were not financially successful, and in 1936 Gernsback sold Wonder Stories to Ned Pines at Beacon Publications, where, retitled Thrilling Wonder Stories, it continued for nearly 20 years. The last issue was dated Winter 1955, and the title was then merged with Startling Stories, another of Pines' science fiction magazines. Startling itself lasted only to the end of 1955 before finally succumbing to the decline of the pulp magazine industry.
The editors under Gernsback's ownership were David Lasser, who worked hard to improve the quality of the fiction, and, from mid-1933, Charles Hornig. Both Lasser and Hornig published some well-received fiction, such as Stanley Weinbaum's "A Martian Odyssey", but Hornig's efforts in particular were overshadowed by the success of Astounding Stories, which had become the leading magazine in the new field of science fiction. Under its new title, Thrilling Wonder Stories was initially unable to improve its quality. For a period in the early 1940s it was aimed at younger readers, with a juvenile editorial tone and covers that depicted beautiful women in implausibly revealing spacesuits. Later editors began to improve the fiction, and some groundbreaking stories were published, including "The Lovers", a well-received story by Philip José Farmer about interspecies sex. By the end of the 1940s, in the opinion of science fiction historian Mike Ashley, the magazine briefly rivaled Astounding.
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FALL 1929
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AUGUST 1940
SUMMER 1946
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BETTER PUBLICATIONS --MARCH 1943
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JUNE 1950
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OCT. 1949
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FEBRUARY 1953
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THE NEW THRILLING WONDER MAGAZINE:
The second issue of Editor/Publisher Winston Engle's new incarnation of Thrilling Wonder Stories will be dated Spring 2009, and will tie in to the May release of Star Trek, the film slated to reboot the long-running television and movie franchise. Fourteen writers who were responsible for Star Trek television episodes will appear in the 252-page trade-paperback format issue, which is available for pre-order with a planned shipping date of 12 March.
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