Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction
magazine, published from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by World Editions
and sold two years later to Robert Guinn, the magazine's printer. Its
first editor, H. L. Gold, rapidly made Galaxy the leading science
fiction magazine of its time, focusing on stories about social issues
rather than technology, including Ray Bradbury's "The Fireman" (later
expanded as Fahrenheit 451), Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters,
and Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man. Frederik Pohl, who had been
doing most of the production work for some time, took over as editor
officially in 1961. Until his departure in 1969, Galaxy had continued
success, regularly publishing fiction by writers such as Cordwainer
Smith, Jack Vance, Harlan Ellison, and Robert Silverberg. At its peak,
Galaxy greatly influenced the science fiction field. Gold brought a
"sophisticated intellectual subtlety" to magazine science fiction,
according to Pohl. Historian David Kyle suggests that Gold's new
direction led to the experimental New Wave, the defining science fiction
literary movement of the 1960s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Science_Fiction>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1499:
Muslims in Alpujarras, Granada, rebelled against their rulers
in response to forced conversions to Catholicism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion_of_the_Alpujarras_(1499%E2%80%931501)>
1898:
Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the first official land speed
record, averaging 63.15 km/h (39.24 mph) over 1 km (0.62 mi).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record>
1939:
Second World War: The Luftwaffe victory over the Royal Air
Force in the Battle of the Heligoland Bight greatly influenced both
sides' future air strategy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Heligoland_Bight_(1939)>
1963:
Students from Ghana and other African countries organized a
protest on Moscow's Red Square in response to the alleged murder of
medical student Edmund Assare-Addo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Moscow_protest>
1966:
Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was
mistaken for Janus; it took twelve years to determine that they are two
distinct objects sharing the same orbit.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimetheus_(moon)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fit as a fiddle:
(simile, colloquial) Perfectly fit; in excellent condition or health.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fit_as_a_fiddle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and
light, beginning and end.
--Peter Wessel Zapffe
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Wessel_Zapffe>
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