| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Comet (magazine) ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Comet (magazine)
''Comet'' was a pulp magazine which published five issues from December 1940 to July 1941. It was edited by F. Orlin Tremaine, who had edited ''Astounding Stories'', one of the leaders of the science fiction magazine field, for several years in the mid-1930s. Tremaine paid one cent per word, which was higher than some of the competing magazines, but the publisher, H-K Publications, was unable to sustain the magazine while it gained circulation, and it was cancelled after less than a year when Tremaine resigned. ''Comet'' published fiction by several well-known and popular writers, including E.E. Smith and Robert Moore Williams. The young Isaac Asimov, visiting Tremaine in ''Comet''s offices, was alarmed when Tremaine asserted that anyone who gave stories to competing magazines for no pay should be blacklisted; Asimov promptly insisted that Donald Wollheim, to whom he had given a free story, should make him a token payment so he could say he had been paid.
== Publication history ==
Although science fiction (sf) had been published before the 1920s, it did not begin to coalesce into a separately marketed genre until the appearance in 1926 of ''Amazing Stories'', a pulp magazine published by Hugo Gernsback. By the end of the 1930s the field was booming.〔Edwards & Nicholls (1993), pp. 1066–1068.〕 At the end of 1940 H-K Publications, a small New York publishing operation owned by Harold Hersey, decided to launch a new sf magazine, titled ''Comet''.〔〔Bleiler (1991), p. 109.〕 The first issue was dated December 1940. The editor was F. Orlin Tremaine, who was well-known to and respected by the growing readership of science fiction because of his successful stint as editor of ''Astounding Stories'' in the early 1930s.〔Thompson (1985a), pp. 163–166.〕
Tremaine paid a cent a word for stories, which was more than many of the other sf magazines that were crowding the field at the time; the respectable pay rate no doubt helped him, but it put the magazine under additional financial pressure.〔 Two other magazines launched at about the same time, ''Cosmic Stories'' and ''Stirring Science Stories'', edited by Donald A. Wollheim, both paid nothing at all to writers, on the basis that if the magazines were successful, money might be available in the future. This annoyed Tremaine, and Isaac Asimov, who gave Wollheim a story for ''Cosmic Stories'', later recalled Tremaine telling him that "any author who donated stories to Wollheim, and thus contributed to the destruction of competing magazines who paid, should be blacklisted in the field".〔Thompson (1985b), p. 618.〕 Asimov was sufficiently upset that he later obtained token payment from Wollheim so that he could assert he had been paid for his story.
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Comet (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|