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Ardentia

Issues & Index Sources: in 1990s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: University of Missouri

Ardent Love

Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1934 – May-1934:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Magazines, Inc. (A.A. Wyn)
Editors:   Rose Wyn
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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The Arena [1889]

Total Issues: 233

A noted 'muckraking' magazine which also published much fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1889 – Aug-1909:

Index to Periodical Literature

(to 1906 only)

Publishers:   Arena Pub Co., Boston
Editors:   B. O. Flowes
Frequency:   monthly, but no issues Apr-1909 - Jun-1909
Related Sites:   Spartacus Educational

The Arena [1949]

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1949 – 1952:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Arena, 28/29 Southampton Street, London WC1
Editors:   Jack Lindsay
Formats:   digest
Prices:   1/6d
Frequency:   bimonthly

Arena

Total Issues: 4+9=13

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1975 – Oct-1976, as Titan

Feb-1977 – 1982, as Arena SF:

FictionMags Index

(Missing: #13, 1982)

Publishers

Geoff Rippington, 15 Queens Ave., Canterbury, Kent

Editors

Geoff Rippington



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Arena [1986]

"Style and general interest magazine for men... occasional fiction".

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1986/Jan-1987 – Apr-2009

Publishers

Wagadon Ltd/Conde Nast, London

Editors

in 1993: Kathryn Flett
in 1997: Ekow Eshun

Formats

slick

Frequency

monthly

Related Sites

Wikipedia

Arena Library

Total Issues: 20

Issues & Index Sources: 1893

Sources: Dime Novel Bibliography

Arena Library Series

Total Issues: 20

Issues & Index Sources: 1892 – 1895

Publishers: Arena Pub. Co.
Sources: Dime Novel Bibliography

Ares [1980]

Total Issues: 17

A gaming magazine which occasionally printed fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1980 – 1984:

Science Fiction Index

(Only fiction indexed)

Publishers

Mar-1980 – Winter 1983: Simulations Publications, NY
1983 – 1984: Dragon Publishing, Lake Geneva

Editors

Michael Moore

Formats

quasi-slick

Prices

  Mar-1980 – May-1981: $3.00
  Jul-1981 – Nov-1981: $4.00
  Jan-1982 – 1984: $6.00

Pagecounts

  Mar-1980 – May-1981: 40pp
  Jul-1981 – Jan-1982: 36pp
  Winter 1983 – 1984: 64pp

Frequency

bimonthly to Jan-1982, quarterly from Winter 1983



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Ares Special Edition

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1983 – #2, 1986:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Simulations Publications, Inc., New York.
Editors:   Redmond A. Simonsen & Michael Moore
Formats:   quarto


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Ares Magazine [2014]

Total Issues: 4 (as at Jan-2019)

A gaming magazine which also printed fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-2014 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #4)

Publishers:   One Step Press, 26444 Via Roble, Mission Viejo, CA 92691
Prices:   $30.00
Frequency:   quarterly
Website:   www.aresmagazine.com



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Arete [1983]

Called 'The Journal of sport literature'.

Issues & Index Sources

Fall 1983 – Fall 1987

Spring 1988 – present, as Aethlon:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Sport Literature Association at San Diego University Press, California
Sports Literature Association at Box 70270, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614

Editors

Don Johnson (in 2002)

Formats

quasi-slick

Frequency

  twice yearly

Sources:   O. Henry Awards Website (in 2002)
Website:   www.uta.edu/english/sla/aethlon.html

Areté [1999]

Total Issues: 41 (as at Jan-2014)

Literary/arts magazine with fiction by Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Rose Tremain..

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1999 – present:

website

Publishers:   Areté Ltd, 8 New College Lane, Oxford, OX1 3BN
Editors:   Craig Raine
Frequency:   thrice yearly
Website:   www.aretemagazine.com

The Argonaut [1877]

Total Issues: 4211

The fiction was often the lead item; published Ambrose Bierce, Emma Frances Dawson.

Issues & Index Sources

25-Mar-1877 – 1956

Publishers

Frank Pixley & Frederick Somers at outset

Editors

  25-Mar-1877 – 1880: Frank Pixley
  1900 – 1907: Ambrose Bierce & Jerome A. Hart
  Feb-1907 – Jun-1924: Alfred Holman
  Jun-1924 – Jul-1924: Morton Todd
  Jul-1924 – Mar-1925: Samuel T. Clover
  Apr-1925 – May-1925: Morton Todd
  May-1925 – ?: Edward Morphy

Formats

16-page tabloid (15"x11.5") on cheap stock

Prices

10c

Frequency

25-Mar-1877 – 1956: weekly

Argonaut [1993]

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1993 – ?

Publishers:   Argonaut Press (Warren Hinckle)
Editors:   Warren Hinckle
Frequency:   quarterly
Website:   www.argonaut360.com

The Argonaut [1977]

Total Issues: 20

Initially a fanzine, it changed format dramatically with the fifth issue.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1972 – Summer 1976, as Macabre:

Science Fiction Index

Spring/Summer 1977 – Fall/Winter 1981, as The Argonaut:

Science Fiction Index

Fall 1983 – Summer 1995, as Argonaut:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers

Spring/Summer 1977 – Fall 1983: Michael E. Ambrose
Summer 1984 – 1989: Argo Press, Austin, TX

Editors

Michael E. Ambrose

Prices

  Spring/Summer 1977: 75c
  Winter/Spring 1979 – Fall/Winter 1980: $1.50
  Fall/Winter 1981: $2.00
  Fall 1983 – 1989: $3.00
  Summer 1991: $5.00
  Summer 1992 – Summer 1995: $4.95



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