Galileo Magazine of Science & Fiction was a science fiction magazine

Science fiction magazine

A science fiction magazine is a publication that offers primarily science fiction, either in a hard copy periodical format or on the Internet....

 which appeared as a quarterly in the 8½ × 11 format for five issues, issue #5 being published in October 1977. It then changed to a bimonthly publishing schedule beginning with issue #6 published in January 1978. The last issue published was issue #16 in January 1980. Issue #17 was planned, but the magazine folded and only the covers for #17 were printed.

Contributors

Larry Niven

Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...

's The Ringworld Engineers first publication was serialized in #13–#16. Other contributors include:

• Brian Aldiss
  Brian Aldiss
  Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society...
  
  
• Ray Bradbury
  Ray Bradbury
  Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
  
  
• Arthur C. Clarke
  Arthur C. Clarke
  Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...
  
  
• Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
  
  
• Joe Haldeman
  Joe Haldeman
  Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.-Life :Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known...
  
  
• Frank Herbert
  Frank Herbert
  Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Although a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and its five sequels...
  
  
• Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...
  
  
• Joan D. Vinge
  Joan D. Vinge
  Joan D. Vinge is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series about the telepath named Cat, and her Heaven's Chronicles books.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jack Williamson
  Jack Williamson
  John Stewart Williamson , who wrote as Jack Williamson was a U.S. writer often referred to as the "Dean of Science Fiction" following the death in 1988 of Robert A...
  
  
• Larry Blamire
  Larry Blamire
  Larry Blamire is an American filmmaker, writer and artist best known for the independent film The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.-Biography:Blamire was raised in Massachusetts and studied illustration at the Art Institute of Boston under Norman Baer, a second generation student of Howard Pyle.-Comic...
  
   - Illustrator

Publishers

• Avenue Victor Hugo
  Avenue Victor-Hugo (Paris)
  Avenue Victor-Hugo is an avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It begins at place Charles de Gaulle and ends at place Tattegrain . It is one of the twelve avenues beginning at the Étoile, and the second longest of the twelve, after the avenue des Champs-Élysées...
  
  Publishers, Boston, MA, issues #1-6
• Galileo Magazine, Inc., Boston, MA, issues #7-17

Issues

• Issue #1 1976 (quarterly)
• Issue #2 1976 (quarterly)
• Issue #3 1977 (quarterly)
• Issue #4 July 1977 (quarterly)
• Issue #5 October 1977 (quarterly)
• Issue #6 January 1978 (bimonthly)
• Issue #7 March 1978 (bimonthly)
• Issue #8 May 1978 (bimonthly)
• Issue #9 July 1978 (bimonthly)
• Issue #10 September 1978 (bimonthly)
• Issue #11 & 12 double issue June 1979 (bimonthly)
• Issue #13 July 1979 (bimonthly)
• Issue #14 September 1979 (bimonthly)
• Issue #15 November 1979 (bimonthly)
• Issue #16 January 1980 (bimonthly)