Prepare For The Future With The Covers Of Science Fiction Quarterly


by Edmund Emshwiller

Science Fiction Quarterly began it’s initial run in 1940 and, with the world distracted by war in the present, it ceased publication in 1943.  However, once the war was over and people were once again looking to the future, Science Fiction Quarterly was revived in 1951 and ran until 1958.  Over the course of its run, it published many of the current and future “big names” in science fiction.  Isaac Asimon, Arthur C. Clarke, James Blish, and Donald Wolheim were among the writers whose work appeared in the pages of Science Fiction Quarterly.  When Science Fiction Quarterly ceased publication in 1958, it was the last of the science fiction pulp magazines.  When there were no more issues of Science Fiction Quarterly, it was the end of the era but, considering the future success of the magazine’s writers, it would also be the beginning of a new age.

With 2020 soon coming to a close, now seems like a good time to look to the future with the covers of Science Fiction Quarterly.

by A. Leslie Ross

by Alex Schomburg

by Allen Gustav Anderson

by Edmund Emshwiller

by Edmund Emswhiller

by Frank Kelly Freas

by Frank Kelly Freas

by Frank R. Paul

by Jack Binder

by Leo Morey

by Milton Luros

by Milton Luros

by Milton Luros

Welcome to the Future!


by Raymond L. Jones

Happy New Year and welcome to the future!  Whenever we start a new year, I always like to go back and see what people thought the future would be like.  While a visitor from the 1950s would be astounded by much of what we take for granted in 2020, they might still wonder why we don’t have a single lunar colony.

Here are just a few examples of what the pulp era expected from the future:

by Stanley Meltzoff

Artist Unknown

by Earle Bergey

by Earle Bergey

by Earle Bergey

by Earle Bergey

by Rudolph Belarski

by Ed Valigursky

Artist Unknown

by Elliott Dold

by Milton Luros

by John Forte Jr.

by Milton Luros

Artist Profile: Milton Luros (1911–1999)


LurosMilton Luros was born in Brooklyn, New York.  After graduating high school, he attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where he studied commercial illustration.  By 1937, he was freelance artist whose work appeared on the covers of magazines like Crack Detective, True Gangsters, and Western Aces.  In the 1950s, Luros wrote and drew a nationally syndicated comic strip called  Roger Lincoln, S-Man.  Later in his career, Luros worked as both an agent and a publisher.

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