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Fantasy (1938 magazine)
''Fantasy'' was a British pulp science fiction magazine which published three issues in 1938 and 1939. The editor was T. Stanhope Sprigg; when the war started, he enlisted in the RAF and the magazine was closed down. The publisher, George Newnes Ltd, paid respectable rates, and as a result Sprigg was able to obtain some good quality material, including stories by John Wyndham, Eric Frank Russell, and John Russell Fearn.
==Publication history==
The first U.S. science fiction (sf) magazine, ''Amazing Stories'', was imported into the U.K. from its launch in 1926, and other magazines from the U.S. market were also available in the U.K. from an early date. However, no British sf magazine was launched until 1934, when Pearson's launched ''Scoops'', a weekly in tabloid format aimed at the juvenile market. Soon Haydn Dimmock, ''Scoops''' editor, began to receive more sophisticated stories, targeted at an adult audience; he tried to change the magazine's focus to include more mature fiction but within twenty issues falling sales led Pearson's to kill the magazine. The failure of ''Scoops'' gave British publishers the impression that Britain could not support a science fiction publication.〔Ashley, ''Time Machines'', pp. 127–131.〕
Despite this failure, only a year later, Newnes., the publisher of The Strand magazine, decided to launch a group of four genre pulp magazines, and to include a science fiction title in the group. The plan was the idea of T. Stanhope Sprigg, a young editor who had jouned Newnes in 1934.〔 Sprigg had help from Walter Gillings, a British science fiction reader who had been active in fan circles since the early 1930s, in searching for good submissions, and was able to obtain stories from Eric Frank Russell and John Russell Fearn, but although the other three titles—''Air Stories'', ''War Stories'', and ''Western Stories''—were launched in 1935 and 1936, the science fiction title was much delayed.〔〔 Sprigg recalled later that Newnes issued a memo specifying the requirements for the stories; it was "so restricting that it threw would-be contributors into a complete tizzy". The project was placed on hold after fifteen months.〔
Gillings subsequently persuaded The World's Work, a subsidiary of William Heinemann, to launch a science fiction pulp magazine titled ''Tales of Wonder'' in 1937. This was successful enough to convince Newnes to go ahead with the original plan, and ''Fantasy'' was launched in July 1938,〔Harbottle & Holland (1992), p. 15–17.〕 with an issue dated only with the year. Another issue appeared six months later and a third and final issue in June 1939, again dated only with the year; Sprigg enlisted as a pilot when World War II started, and although a fourth issue had been prepared, it was clear that paper rationing was coming, and Newnes decided to close down the magazine.〔Ashley (1985a), pp. 254–256.〕
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