A PROFILE OF SCIENCE FICTION.

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      UNITED Kingdom; UNITED States
    • Abstract:
      The article presents information about popular science fiction published in Great Britain. The U.S. figures dwarf the British. In chat country the number of magazines increased from 4 in 1937, 13 in 1939, to 22 a 1941; and now it stands at approximately 30. Each magazine has a circulation, which is, on the average, five times that of the British. The combined monthly circulation must run to approximately 3 millions and the total readership is probably nearer six millions. Furthermore, the output of novels and anthologies has similarly increased: it rose from 41 in 1949 to 60 in 1950, 57 in 1951 and in 1952 soared to approximately 90; one for every four crime novel. All this is to ignore the other media — cinema, radio and television. It ignores also the genre's invasion of juvenilia through comics and the television circuits.