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Ideas

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1591

Issues & Index Sources

9-Jan-1905 – 31-May-1930

7-Jun-1930 – 4-Sep-1935, as Ideas and Town Talk

Publishers

Hulton, London (moved to Manchester in Aug-1923)

Editors

Harold Bowler (in 1934)

Frequency

weekly

Ideomancer

Country: US
Total Issues: 73

Semiprofessional SF magazine available as a PDF download, prior to which, in 2000/1 it published short stories periodically on the website.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-2002 – Mar-2015:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Leah Bobet
Editors:   @John Oz (Dec-2000 - May-2001); Chris Clarke (Jun-2001 - Jun-2004); Marsha Sisolak (Sep-2004 - Dec-2008); Leah Bobet (Mar-2009 - ?)
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia

Idle Hour Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 20

Issues & Index Sources:  1902: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   R.F. Fenno & Co., 9-11 East 16th St., New York
Formats:   7¼ x 5"
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   300pp
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Idle Hour Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 20

"The works in this series are exclusively American Copyright Novels, by the most popular authors of the day, which can be obtained in no other edition. They comprise a series of novels of strong dramatic interest, and being printed from large type on good paper, uniformly bound in attractive paper covers, and sold at a popular price, they should command the attention of every lover of good fiction."

Issues & Index Sources: 24-Feb-1892 – 30-Apr-1892:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   F.M. Lupton, No. 65 Duane St., New York
Formats:   7 x 4¾"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   125-150
Frequency:   Semi-Weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Idle Moments Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 22

"The most entertaining novels of the day"

Issues & Index Sources: 15-May-1891 – 1893:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Price-McGill, St. Paul, Minnesota
Formats:   7 3/8 x 5¼"
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   300-400
Frequency:   Semi-Monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The Idler [1856]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 6

A magazine of "fiction, belles lettres, news and comedy." Authors include William Allingham, Shirley Brooks, Mortimer Collins.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1856 – Jun-1856

Editors: Edward Wilberforce
Frequency: monthly

The Idler [1892]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 230

Under Jerome this magazine delighted in parodying other popular fiction, e.g with Barr's "Sherlaw Kombs" stories. Authors include Conan Doyle, W. Clark Russell, W.W. Jacobs, Coulson Kernahan, O. Henry, Mark Twain, G.K. Chesterton, Israel Zangwill, Eden Phillpotts, Edwin Lester Arnold ("Rutherford the Twiceborn," May-1892), Robert W. Chambers ("Tracer of Lost Persons" series, 1907), William Hope Hodgson ("Carnacki" stories, 1910); after it folded Robert Barr issued 6 four-page issues in chapbook format, April - Oct-1911; one of the first imitation-Strand magazines

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1892 – Mar-1911:

FictionMags Index

Publishers

  Feb-1892 – Jan-1898: Chatto & Windus
  Feb-1898 – Jul-1898: J.M. Dent
  Aug-1898 – Jul-1900: W.R. Russell
  Aug-1900 – Feb-1901: Horace Marshall
  Mar-1901 – Sep-1902: Dawbarn & Ward
  Oct-1902 – Sep-1906: Chatto & Windus
  Oct-1906 – Mar-1911: The Idler

Editors

  Feb-1892 – Jul-1895: Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr
  Aug-1895 – Nov-1897: Jerome K. Jerome
  Dec-1897 – Sep-1898: Robert Barr
  Oct-1898 – Apr-1899: Edwin Oliver
  May-1899 – Feb-1901: Arthur Lawrence & Sidney H. Sime
  Oct-1902 – Mar-1911: Robert Barr

Formats

slightly smaller than standard

Prices

initially 6d

Frequency

monthly

Related Sites

  Wikipedia
  Science Fiction Encyclopedia

Mentioned in:   British Literary Magazines Vol. 3, The Age of the Storytellers

Online Sources

Online Books



Issue Checklist

The Idler [1993]

Country: UK

Subtitled "The Magazine for Those Who Live to Loaf", containing a handful of stories in each issue. Moved online in September 2014.

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1993 – 2014:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

2016 – present

Website: www.idler.co.uk
Email Address: theidlers@idler.co.uk

Editors

Hodgkinson, Tom

Formats

trade paperback

Prices

£10.00

Pagecounts

256pp

Frequency

quarterly

Related Sites

Wikipedia

Idylwild Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 44

Issues & Index Sources:  1892 – 1893: Dime Novel Bibliography (incomplete)

Publishers:   Morrill, Higgins & Co., Chicago, IL
Formats:   8 x 5¾"
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   350-450
Frequency:   weekly (though dates are somewhat irregular)
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

If!

Country: US
Total Issues: 5

Science fiction fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1948 – Jan-1949

Editors:   Conrad A. Pederson
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   24pp
Related Sites:   ZineWiki

If

Country: US
Total Issues: 175+1+1=177 (as at Oct-2024)

Subtitled "Worlds of Science Fiction" when it started, the "Worlds of" part came and went during the Fifties, often being placed on the cover in a manner that allowed one to misread the full title as "Worlds of If". Robert Guinn seems to have been a bit uncertain of the exact title after he bought it in 1959. The title is given in a variety of ways in the indicia, annual statements of ownership, etc.; it is worth noting, however, that Guinn never thought it was "Worlds of If".

Universal seems to have also been confused about the magazine's title for a while; they finally settled on "Worlds of If" in 1972. When the magazine was relaunched in 2024 it was unambiguously titled Worlds of If.

The 1986 issue was a revival as a semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1952 – Nov/Dec-1974:

Science Fiction Index

Fall 1986:

Science Fiction Index

Feb-2024 – present, as Worlds of If:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after Feb-2024)

Website: www.worldsofifmagazine.com

Publishers

  Mar-1952 – Feb-1959: Quinn Publishing, NY
  Jul-1959 – May-1963: Digest Productions (a subsidiary of Galaxy Publishing)
  Jul-1963 – May-1969: Galaxy Publishing
  Jul-1969 – Nov/Dec-1974: Universal Publishing
  Fall 1986: STF Corporation, Hicksville, NY
  Feb-2024 – present: Starship Sloane Publishing Company, Inc.

Editors

  Mar-1952 – Sep-1952: Paul W. Fairman
  May-1953 – Mar-1954: Larry Shaw
  May-1954 – Apr-1958: James Quinn
  Oct-1958 – Feb-1959: Damon Knight
  Jul-1959 – Sep-1961: Horace L. Gold
  Nov-1961 – May-1969: Frederik Pohl
  Jul-1969 – Jan/Feb-1974: Ejler Jakobsson
  Mar/Apr-1974 – Nov/Dec-1974: James Baen
  Fall 1986: Clifford Hong
  Feb-2024 – present: Justin T. O'Conor Sloane

Formats

digest

Pagecounts

average 160pp

Frequency

mostly bimonthly, but monthly Oct-1964 - May-1969

Related Sites

  Wikipedia
  Science Fiction Encyclopedia

Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Online Sources

Online Books (9 issues)



Issue Checklist

If (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 15+18+10+9+15=67

British reprint edition of If.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1953 – Jan-1955:	Science Fiction Index
	Index to British Science Fiction Magazines

#1, 1959 – #18, 1962:

Science Fiction Index

#100, 1967 – #109, 1967:

Science Fiction Index

Nov-1969 – Aug/Sep-1970:

Science Fiction Index

May/Jun-1972 – Sep/Oct-1974:

Science Fiction Index



Issue Checklist

IFA Review

Country: US
Total Issues: 5

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1940

Editors: Ted Dikty

Iguana Informer

Country: US

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1990s

Illinois Monthly Magazine

see under The Western Monthly Magazine (1830)

Illumen

Country: US
Total Issues: 43 (to Winter 2022)

Illumen is a print magazine of speculative poetry co-edited by Tyree Campbell and Erin Donahoe, published semi-annually in Spring April and Autumn October. It contains speculative poetry, illustrations, articles, and reviews.