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Title: 1977 SCIENCE FICTION CALENDAR - ed. SAM MOSKOWITZ
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Item Specifics - Magazine Back Issues
Issue Type: Annual
Subject: Pulps
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Publication Year: 1977
THE SCIENCE FICTION Calendar for 1977, edited by Sam MOSKOWITZ, published by Charles Scribner's Sons (New York).
ISBN: 0-684-14635-5
"For this calendar, a selection has been made from among the paintings of some of the greatest names in the history of the field" (Moskowitz)
Months and corresponding paintings/artists (and where they originally appeared – covers, unless otherwise noted) are as follows:
Cover: "Misfit"by Frank R. PAUL (Science Fiction+, December 1953)
January: "The Red Tunnel"by Virgil FINLAY (Fantastic Universe, November 1959)
February: "Serinis, Water City of Callisto"by Frank R. PAUL (Amazing Stories, December 1941 – back cover)
March: "The Silent Destroyer"by Frank R. PAUL (Air Wonder Stories, August 1929)
April: "Pygm-Alien and Galaxea"by Ed EMSHWILLER (Galaxy Science Fiction, March 1954)
May: "The Jungle Claims Its Own"by Fred KIRBERGER (Galaxy Science Fiction, March 1957)
June: "The Moon Conquerors"by Frank R. PAUL (Science Wonder Quarterly, Winter 1930)
July: "The Radio Beasts"by Virgil FINLAY (Fantastic Novels, January 1941)
August: "Flag Raising on the Moon"by Virgil FINLAY (Fantastic Universe, July 1958)
September: "The Flight of the Eastern Star"by Frank R. PAUL (Air Wonder Stories, December 1929)
October: "The Ideal"by Frank R. PAUL (Wonder Stories, September 1935)
November: "The Fortress of Utopia"by Howard V. BROWN (Startling Stories, November 1939)
December: "Christmas on the Moon"by Ed EMSHWILLER (Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1954)
A NEAR FINE unused copy in the publisher's original cardboard envelope (slightly sunned edges). Beautiful color illustrations (listing photos are of the cover and the November painting, slightly cropped from originals). 10"x13".
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