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Alternative title: Fiction : Fantastique Science Fiction
Issue Details: First known date: 1953... 1953 Fiction
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While modern French science fiction, and arguably science fiction as a whole, begins with Jules Verne in the 1860s and 1880, the advent of World War I led to a sharp decline in the writing and publishing of French works. It was not until the early 1950s that the French writers began to explore the genre again, but much of what they wrote was overtly pessimistic about the future of humanity. The 1950s and 1960s therefore saw English-language (and particularly American) science fiction dominating the attention of French readers. The first genre magazine to begin publishing in French was Fiction (aka Fiction : Fantastique Science Fiction) which initially published translated issues of the US Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

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First known date: 1953
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y separately published work icon The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; The Magazine of Fantasy; Fantasy and Science Fiction; F&SF New Hampshire : Mystery House , 1949 Z990683 1949 periodical fantasy science fiction (34 issues)

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, later Fantasy and Science Fiction (and often referred to as just F&SF), is a digest-size speculative-fiction magazine first published as a quarterly in 1949 by Mystery House and as a bi-monthly by Fantasy House (1950-1958). Both houses were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications. In 1958, responsibility for the publication of the magazine was taken on by Mercury Press. In October 2001, Gordon Van Gelder bought the magazine from Mercury. He subsequently moved its offices from New York to New Jersey and published it through his newly formed company Spilogale Inc. Today, the magazine is the world's second-longest-running science-fiction magazine, surpassing Amazing Stories in total number of issues published and exceeded only by Astounding/Analog.

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