Saturn (magazine)
Encyclopedia
Digest size
Digest size is a magazine size, smaller than a conventional or "journal size" magazine but larger than a standard paperback book, approximately 5½ x 8¼ inches, but can also be 5⅜ x 8⅜ inches and 5½ x 7½ inches. These sizes have evolved from the printing press operation end...
sized 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....
published by Candar Publishing out of New York
New York
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. It produced only five issues from 1957 to 1958 as a science fiction magazine before changing to a detective magazine and then to a horror magazine
Horror fiction magazine
A horror fiction magazine is a magazine that publishes primarily horror fiction with the main purpose of scaring or frightening the reader. Horror magazines can be in print, on the internet, or both.-Defunct magazines:*The Arkham Collector...
specializing in weird tales.
Issues
- March 1957 – March 1958, as Saturn, The Magazine of Science Fiction
- August 1958 – July 1959, as Saturn Web Detective Stories
- September 1959 – September 1961, as Web Detective Stories
- August 1962 – June 1965, as Web Terror Stories
Notable stories
- The Elephant CircuitThe Man Who Traveled in Elephants"The Man Who Traveled in Elephants" is a short story written in 1948 by Robert A. Heinlein. It was first published as "The Elephant Circuit" in the October 1957 issue of Saturn Magazine. It later appeared in two Heinlein anthologies, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag and The Fantasies...
(also called "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants") by Robert A. HeinleinRobert A. HeinleinRobert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of...
(October 1957)