Item #23876 PLANET STORIES. 1951 PLANET STORIES. September, Number 2 Volume 5.

PLANET STORIES.

New York: Love Romances, 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Incudes "The Incubi of Parallel X" by Ted Sturgeon. Also fiction by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson Alfred Coppel, and others. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481. Some soiling along upper front edge, light damp stain to upper front cover, a very good copy. (23876). Item #23876

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