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Galileo [#16, v2 #4, January 1980] ($1.95, 96pp+, quarto)

fc. · [wraparound cover] · Fred Knecht · cv
4 · Looking Backward · Joe W. Haldeman · ed
8 · The Great Galileo Guide to Fantastic Gifts · Letty Hummel, Floyd Kemske & Andrew A. Whyte · ar
18 · Do Apes, Computers and Extraterrestrial Intelligences Have Rights? · Justin Leiber · ar
25 · Crosswhen · John Kessel & Terry Lee · cs
28 · Nine-Tenths of the Law · Alice Laurance · ss
32 · Eat Your Heart Out, Gloria Marshall · Ray Ellis · ss
36 · Passage to Earth · Leanne Frahm · ss
40 · Too Close to Home · John Alfred Taylor · ss
44 · Fool’s Gold [Chaim Dartagnan] · Joan D. Vinge · nv
62 · The Ringworld Engineers [Part 4 of 4; Louis Wu; Ringworld] · Larry Niven · n.
90 · Reviews · Floyd Kemske · rc
_90-91 · Jem, Frederik Pohl; New York: St. Martins, 1979. 359 p. · Alan Ryan · br
_91-93 · The Ugly Swans, Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky; New York: Macmillan, 1979. 234 p. · Patrick L. McGuire · br
96 · Star Chamber: Robert A. Heinlein · Anon. · pi [Robert A. Heinlein]

Galileo [#17, v 2 #5, (March) 1980 (unpublished)] ($1.95, 96pp+, quarto, cover by Cortney Skinner)
This issue was fully prepared but never published. The following information is based on a photocopy of the press proofs.

8 · Computers and Common Sense · Marvin Minsky · ar
12 · In Search of the Car of Tomorrow · Floyd Kemske · ar
16 · The Return of Robert Silverberg · Melissa Mia Hall · iv
20 · Interview: Joe Haldeman [Joe W. Haldeman] · Bruce J. Balfour · iv
25 · Crosswhen · John Kessel & Terry Lee · cs
28 · Containment · Dean Whitlock · ss Aboriginal Science Fiction Feb/Mar 1987
32 · Just Protoplasm · John Kessel · ss
38 · Achilles’ Heel · Robert M. Cantales · ss
44 · Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? · Bill Pronzini & Barry N. Malzberg · ss; first published in Speculations, ed. Isaac Asimov & Alice Laurance, Harcourt Brace, 1982.
48 · Lydia · Tony Sarowitz · ss
56 · Worlds [Marianne O’Hara] · Joe W. Haldeman · iw; part 1 of a serial.
96 · Star Chamber: Robert Sheckley · Anon. · pi [Robert Sheckley]

Gamma (about)

Publishers:

Star Press; North Hollywood, CA: Gamma

Editors:

Charles E. Fritch - Editor: Gamma.
Jack Matcha - Executive Editor: Gamma, #1 – 3.
William F. Nolan - Managing Editor: Gamma, #1 – 3.
Jack Matcha - Co-Editor: Gamma, #4 – 5.

Gamma [v1 #1, #1, 1963] (50¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Morris Scott Dollens)

5 · Mourning Song · Charles Beaumont · nv
16 · Crimes Against Passion · Fritz Leiber · ss
22 · Time in Thy Flight · Ray Bradbury · ss Fantastic Universe Jun/Jul 1953
27 · The Vengeance of Nitocris · Tennessee Williams · ss Weird Tales Aug 1928, as by Thomas Lanier Williams
39 · Itself! · A. E. van Vogt · ss Scientific American Jan 1963
42 · Venus Plus Three · Charles E. Fritch · nv
60 · A Message from Morj · Ray Russell · vi
63 · To Serve the Ship · William F. Nolan · ss
69 · The Gamma Interview · Rod Serling · iv
76 · The Freeway · George Clayton Johnson · ss
88 · One Night Stand · Herbert A. Simmons · ss
94 · As Holy and Enchanted · Kris Neville · ss Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader Apr 1953, as by Henderson Starke
105 · Shade of Day · John Tomerlin · ss
113 · The Girl Who Wasn’t There · Forrest J. Ackerman · ss; revised from “The Lady Takes a Powder”, Inside 1953, with Edith Eide. Eide was not given byline credit on either version.
118 · Death in Mexico · Ray Bradbury · pm California Quarterly 1954
121 · Crescendo · Richard Matheson · ss

Gamma [v1 #2, #2, 1963] (50¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Morris Scott Dollens)

3 · The Granny Woman · Dorothy B. Hughes · nv
22 · The Old College Try · Robert Bloch · ss
34 · Michael · Francesca Marques · vi
37 · Deus Ex Machina · Richard Matheson · ss
45 · The Kid Learns · William Faulkner · ss New Orleans Times-Picayune May 31 1925
50 · King’s Jester · Jack Matcha · ss
58 · Here’s Sport Indeed! · William Shakespeare & Ib Melchior · pm; individual lines from Shakespeare’s plays rearranged by Melchior into a poem seemingly about a trip to Mars.
62 · Portfolio · Burt Shonberg · pi
70 · The Undiscovered Country · William F. Temple · ss Nebula Science Fiction #35 1958
82 · The Gamma Interview · Robert Sheckley · iv
89 · Castaway · Charles E. Fritch · ss
98 · Something in the Earth · Charles Beaumont · ss
108 · I’m Only Lonesome When I’m Lonely · William F. Nolan · ss
118 · A Note on Ernest Hemingway · Anon. · ms
119 · Sombra y Sol · Ray Bradbury · ss Touchstone Fll 1947, as “El Dia de Muerte”

Gamma [v2 #1, #3, 1964] ed. Jack Matcha (Star Press; North Hollywood, CA, 50¢, 128pp+, digest s/s, cover by Morris Scott Dollens)
Cover: Expedition to Jupiter (Third in a Series). Details supplied by Todd Mason.

[interior drawings] · Luann Meatheringham · il
2 · The Girl of Paradise Planet · Robert Turner · nv
32 · The Feather Bed · Shelly Lowenkopf · ss
43 · About Our Interior Artist: Luann Meatheringham · Anon. · bg
44 · Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary Dec 1955
56 · The (In)visible Man · Edward W. Ludwig · ss
70 · Inside Story · Miriam Allen deFord · ss
79 · The Birth · George Clayton Johnson · ss
85 · The Gamma Interview: Soviet Science Fiction [Ivan Kirov] · Anon. · iv
93 · Buttons · Raymond E. Banks · ss
109 · Society for the Prevention · Ron Goulart · ss
121 · The Snail Watcher · Patricia Highsmith · ss

Gamma [v2 #2, #4, February 1965] (50¢, 128pp+, digest s/s, cover by John Healey)

3 · The Clutches of Ruin · H. B. Fyfe · nv
38 · The Towers of Kagasi · William P. Miller · ss
55 · Food · Ray Nelson · ss
63 · Hans Off in Free Pfall to the Moon · E. A. Poe · ss; an anonymous abridgment of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall”.
77 · The Gamma Interview: Forrest J Ackerman · Anon. · iv
84 · Open Season · John Tanner · ss
96 · The Woman Astronaut · Robert Katz · pl
101 · Happily Ever After · William F. Nolan · ss
106 · Don’t Touch Me, I’m Sensitive · James Stamers · ss
121 · The Hand of Dr. Insidious · Ron Goulart · ss

Gamma [v2 #5, #5, September 1965] (50¢, 128pp+, digest s/s, cover by John Healey)

3 · Nesbit · Ron Goulart · na
67 · Policy Conference · Sylvia Dees & Ted White · vi
70 · Auto Suggestion · Charles Beaumont · ss
82 · Welcome to Procyon IV · Chester H. Carlfi · vi
86 · Interest · Richard Matheson · ss
97 · Lullaby and Goodnight · George Clayton Johnson · ss
102 · A Careful Man Dies · Ray Bradbury · ss New Detective Magazine Nov 1946
115 · The Late Mr. Adams · Steve Allen · vi (r)
118 · Wet Season · Dennis Etchison · ss

Gamut Magazine (about)

Gamut Magazine [#1, January 2017] ed. Richard Thomas (Gamut Magazine, ebook, cover by Luke Spooner)
Details taken from online listing.

Love Story, an Exorcism · Michelle E. Goldsmith · ss
No Vacancies: The Great Hot Sauce Catastrophe of 2013 · Max Booth, III · cl
Any Corpse · Brian Evenson · ss
Some Boys Aren’t Born They Bubble · Kaveh Abkar · pm
Three Poems · Gretchen Oberle · gp
_ · Graveside Conversation · Gretchen Oberle · pm
_ · Critical Mass · Gretchen Oberle · pm
_ · Idiopathic · Gretchen Oberle · pm
Etch the Unthinkable · Kurt Fawver · ss
Raw Bites: Bukowski in San Pedro · Keith Rawson · cl
Sex Armageddon · Lindsay Hunter · ss
Pete’s Lake · Judy Jordan · pm
The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires · Cassandra Khaw · ss
Mother of Dragons of Chihuahuas: Potty Training · Diddle Knabb · cl
The Cold Boy · Benjamin Percy · ss
Four Poems · Pamela Johnson Parker · pm
Bubblegum Man · Eric Reitan · ss
A Skeptic’s Guide to Ghost Hunting · Lisa Morton · ar
Ugly Things Make Good Company · Jessica Hollander · ss
Two Poems · Simone Muench · pm
Nava · S. B. Divya · ss
Three Poems · Jeffrey Skinner · pm
Stripped: A Memoir [Part 1 of 4] · Jacklyn Dre Marceau · bg

Gamut Magazine [#2, February 2017] ed. Richard Thomas (Gamut Magazine, ebook, cover by Luke Spooner)
Details taken from online listing.

Angel Combs · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Tiger Books 1994
A24 Films · Kealan Patrick Burke · ar
Two Poems · Carrie Jerrell · pm
Figure 8 · E. Catherine Tobler · ss
No Vacancies: Love at the Bottom of a Swimming Pool · Max Booth, III · cl
Cat Calls · Rebecca Jones-Howe · ss Exigencies, ed. Richard Thomas, Dark House Press 2015
Three Poems · Kiki Petrosino · pm
Love Is a Cavity I Can’t Stop Touching · Stephen Graham Jones · ss
Mother of Dragons of Chihuahuas: Beginning of a Marriage · Diddle Knabb · cl
The Spider Box · Stephen Graham Jones · ss
On the Night Gays Across America Celebrate the Marriage Equality Ruling, You and I Divide Our Possessions · Charles Jensen · pm
Lily at Twilight · Kate O’Connor · ss
Raw Bites: A Brief History of Bad Pizza · Keith Rawson · cl
A Love Not Meant to Outlast the Butterflies · Mercedes M. Yardley · ss LampLight Dec 2014
Two Poems · Blas Falconer · pm
Forestborn · Sylvia Heike · ss
I’m Ruining My Own Life · Gwen Werner · ar
Stripped: A Memoir [Part 2 of 4] · Jacklyn Dre Marceau · bg

Gamut Magazine [#3, March 2017] ed. Richard Thomas (Gamut Magazine, ebook, cover by Luke Spooner)
Details taken from online listing.

We Destroy the Moon · Amber Sparks · ss
No Vacancies: Facebook Stalker · Max Booth, III · cl
When the Spirit Finds Its Voice · Erica Dawson · pm
Western Passage · Amelia Gray · ss
The Arrow of Time · Kate Dollarhyde · ss
Mother of Dragons of Chihuahuas: Abort Mission · Diddle Knabb · cl
Written on the Back of a Topo Map of the Alaska Range · Sheila Sanderson · pm
The Things They Left Behind · Stephen King · na Transgressions, ed. Ed McBain, Forge 2005
Porcupine · J. B. Park · ss
Raw Bites: The Knockout Punch · Keith Rawson · cl
Two Poems · Chloe N. Clark · pm
The Mark · Kathryn E. McGee · ss
Five 1970s Cult Classic Horror Films Revisited in 2017 · Jennifer Word · ar
Introduction to Ecotoxicology, or, a Short History of the Chemical Age · Jeannine Hall Gailey · pm
Stripped: A Memoir [Part 3 of 4] · Jacklyn Dre Marceau · bg

Gamut Magazine [#4, April 2017] ed. Richard Thomas (Gamut Magazine, ebook, cover by Luke Spooner)
Details taken from online listing.

Slipping Petals from Their Skins · Kristi DeMeester · ss
No Vacancies: At Last, a Heist · Max Booth, III · cl
The Lake · Allison Funk · pm
Garnier · Brian Evenson · ss
Mother of Dragons of Chihuahuas: Ghost Pups · Diddle Knabb · cl
Two Poems · Melissa Tyndall · pm
The Night Stair · Angela Slatter · ss
Thorn Tongue · Sarah Read · ss
Raw Bites: The Best Job—#1 · Keith Rawson · cl
PTSD · Danielle Sellers · pm
Vector · S. Qiouyi Lu · ss
Lakota Boneyard · Olin Wish · pm
Stripped: A Memoir [Part 4 of 4] · Jacklyn Dre Marceau · bg
Two Poems · Ellen Bass · pm
The Weird in Music: 10 Great Songs · Michael Sebastian · ar

Gamut Magazine [#5, May 2017] ed. Richard Thomas (Gamut Magazine, ebook, cover by Luke Spooner)
Details taken from online listing.

The God of Low Things · Stephen Graham Jones · ss
No Vacancies · Max Booth, III · cl
Menno · Brian Evenson · ss
God Is the Myth · Cynthia Atkins · pm
Rest Stop · Letitia Trent · ss
Mother of Dragons of Chihuahuas · Diddle Knabb · cl
Repent · Richard Thomas · ss
My Mama · Cassandra Khaw · pm
Metal, Sex, Monsters · Maria Haskins · ss
Raw Bites · Keith Rawson · cl
The Chopping Block · Doug Murano · ss
The Glass Mountain · Lindsay Adkins · pm
Like the Desert Dark · Chloe N. Clark · ss
The Five Human Senses Into Modern Horror Short Fiction · Eric J. Guignard · ar
Parts · Holly Goddard Jones · ss
Heading Into Pittsburgh on the First Day of Summer · Ace Boggess · pm
Notes Toward a Definition of Luck · Jac Jemc · ar

Gamut Magazine [#6, June 2017] ed. Richard Thomas (Gamut Magazine, ebook, cover by Luke Spooner)
Details taken from online listing.

Queen Excluder · David James Keaton · ss
The Lazarus Complex · Stephen Graham Jones · ss
You Try and Hope You’re Wrong · Blas Falconer · pm
They Are Passing by Without Turning · Helen Marshall · ss
No Vacancies: Hotel, a Sitcom · Max Booth, III · cl
The Street Is a Museum · Cynthia Atkins · pm
The Stitcher’s Garden · Adrean Messmer · ss
Mother of Dragons of Chihuahuas: Online Dating · Diddle Knabb · cl
A Sister Is a Thought Curving Back on Herself · Kiki Petrosino · pm
The Last Family Pillar · Timothy Johnson · ss
Raw Bites: Futures · Keith Rawson · cl
Golden Avery · Sarah Read · ss Black Static #40 2014
Nocturne · Kiki Petrosino · pm
The Stammering Man · Mel Kassel · ss
How to Say the Right Thing When There’s No Right Thing to Say · Megan Stielstra · ar
Instituto · Roy Kesey · ss

Gamut Magazine [#7, July 2017] ed. Richard Thomas (Gamut Magazine, ebook, cover by Luke Spooner)
Details taken from online listing.

Heap of Thornbush Burning Hillside · Robert Campbell · pm
The Moments Between · Kate Jonez · ss
No Vacancies: On the Other Side · Max Booth, III · cl
19 Snapshots of Dennisport · Paul Tremblay · ss
Mulattress [1] · Kiki Petrosino · pm
Rogues Bay 3013 · J. S. Breukelaar · ss
Mother of Dragons of Chihuahuas: Harry Potter · Diddle Knabb · cl
Faberge · Stephen Graham Jones · ss
Abigail Williams at the Keg Party · Sarah Satterlee · pm
The Starling of Her Name · Natalia Theodoridou · ss
Raw Bites: How to Disappear Completely · Keith Rawson · cl
A Porcelain Soul · Angela Slatter · nv Sourdough and Other Stories, Tartarus Press 2010
Shiksa · Danielle Sellers · pm
What We Talk About When We Talk About He Who Stalks Beneath the Streets · Lincoln Michel · ss
Missed Connection · Samantha Irby · ar
Taking Off the Front of the House · Ellen Bass · pm
On Light and Shadow · L. L. Madrid · ss

Gamut Magazine [#8, August 2017] ed. Richard Thomas (Gamut Magazine, ebook, cover by Luke Spooner)
Details taken from online listing.

Ghost Story · Rebecca Jones-Howe · ss
No Vacancies · Max Booth, III · cl
Benefactor · Lindsay Walker · pm
The Truth That Lies Under Skin and Meat · Cassandra Khaw · ss
Mother of Dragons of Chihuahuas · Diddle Knabb · cl
So Perfect · Stephen Graham Jones · ss
Reading the Devil’s Bestiary · Robert Campbell · pm
Rh · Paula Carter · ar
Sanibel Island Resort · Tyler Young · ss
Raw Bites · Keith Rawson · cl
Antlered Branches, Steeples and Treetops · Robert Campbell · pm
What They Lost in the Storm · Damien Angelica Walters · ss
Tiny Mens in Your Boobs · Rachel Yoder · ar
Love Song · Lindsay Hunter · ss
Harvest Moon · Lindsay Adkins · pm
Teach the Young Men Well · Chris Kuriata · ss
List Item #10: The Motel Room · Tara Ison · ss Tin House Win 2007

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