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6x Best Fanzine Hugo-finalist. Blast back to 1970: #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, and the #Space Race! Broadcasting the Moon Landings "as they happen" and discussing classic #ScienceFiction here: https://galacticjourney.org

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · Nov 20

1) Going OOC for a mo.

What is Galactic Journey? It is so staggeringly big, so comprehensive, that I suspect even our fans don't know all of its facets. We review every SFF story that comes out, but did you know we’re also a TV station? A radio broadcaster? A LARP?

Strap in—we're taking a ride:

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 10m

This month's first Galactoscope round-up of science fiction (yes, there will be two!) has both soaring heights and middling trots. Read on to see what #ScienceFiction you should be picking up off the shelves this month!

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Four book covers (all described in detail in the article)

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 22h

@holmesja.bsky.social brings news of a brand new BBC #TimeTravel show: TIMESLIP! Is it good? Read on!

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Title card for TIMESLIP with the word rendered in MICR typeface

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 2d

"Good-looking package, attentive editorial presence, slickly written short pieces (and no doubt a capable Shaw novel based on his track record). But it’s all a bit light on substance..."

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#ScienceFiction

Cover of Amazing magazine for November 1970. It announces the stories One Million Tomorrows by Bob Shaw, Enemy by Proxy by Jack Wodhams, A Time to Teach, a Time to Learn by Noel Loomis, Through the Dark Glass by Gerard R. Conway, and the article Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science by Barry N. Malzberg. The cover illustration shows a robotic hand against a multicolored background.

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 5d

George Pritchard takes on a pair of #horror flicks that may not raise your hackles, but were worth the review!

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Book cover for "How Awful about Allan" and poster for "Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, and Girly"

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 7d

@corabuhlert.bsky.social has got a Farmer #ScienceFiction trilogy that combines, Tarzan, Doc Savage, and... genitalia. It needs top be read to be believed!

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Covers for The Mad Goblin and Lord of the Trees (fuller alt-text in article)

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Fiona Glass has suffered so we don't have to... Check out her reviews of Trog and The Vampire Lovers! #ScienceFiction #Fantasy

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Movie posters for Trog and The Vampire Lovers (see the article for fuller alt text)

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 10d

Just tried, but it says the name doesn't exist. Find me? :) @galacticjourney

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 10d

Oh lovely! If you're on Discord, I'm @galacticjourney

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 10d

Hello! I quite enjoyed your tale!

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 10d

How did we not bump into each other in there?!

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 12d

"Wolfe continues to be strange in almost interesting ways."

Fainting with damned praise! Thank you for sticking with us.

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 12d

They misspelled your name!

(did you see that we covered this one?)

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[May 2, 1970] Gaudy Shadows in the Crystal Cave (May 1970 Galactoscope) - Galactic Journey

by David Levinson The Matter of Britain When I was a boy, someone gave me Howard Pyle’s The Story of King Arthur and His Knights. For many years, I would occasionally look at the pictures, but never b...

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 12d

The first #sciencefiction issue of the month is... well, it's IF, which means it is what it is. But check out what's happening in the Middle East!

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Cover of the IF issue. Drawn in a loose, bright style, a man in a white breechcloth stands in front of a strange, organic-looking machine, holding a long dagger.

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 16d

What's this? Analog #ScienceFiction has the best issue of the month? It's true!

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Cover of Analog magazine for October 1970. It announces the story The Tactics of Mistake by Gordon R. Dickson. The cover illustration shows a bulldozer attached to a submarine, pushing against the bottom of the sea.

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 17d

At long last, @bdcollins95.bsky.social has completed his review of Robert Silverberg's " #ScienceFiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1 "

It's a terrific piece, and very useful—practically a primer on classic SF. Check it out!

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Cover for The Science Fiction hall of Fame, Volume 1: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Edited by Robert Silverberg Chosen b ythe by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 21d

@krisvm.bsky.social covered the latest paperback #ScienceFiction anthology! Check it out:

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Cover of The Disappearing Future, a yellowish orange cover with a circular Kaleidoscopic image in the centre, likely achieved via microscopic photography through polarized light creating colored birefringence patterns.
Black Text is at the top reading:
Panther Science Fiction
The Disappearing Future
A symposium of speculation edited by
George Hay

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 23d

Diana Ross is leading the way in Black Fashion—Gwyn Conaway has the details:

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Diana Ross's debut solo album cover from spring of 1970, photographed by Harry Langdon. Photo is of Ross in a t-shirt and shorts, in sepia.

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 24d

Come join us for the very first Monday Night Football—broadcasting right now!

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 27d

Rosel George Brown

Rosel in a white sleeveless shirt against a wooden barn door

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 28d

Winona's latest piece on the all-woman undersea scientist team at Tektite II is amazing. Check it out!

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Two of the women scientists in shirt-sleeves in the living space inside Tektite

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · Sep 12

Greg Benford steals the show with the latest issue of Fantastic #ScienceFIction and #Fantasy!

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Cover art illustration of a man in a cape captioned 'THE CRIMSON WITCH'

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · Sep 11

Jason's got the scoop on the #comix that are even better than the #comics!

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The cover of Zap Comix, showing a whirl of sexual, surreal, and drug-related imagery. In the corner, the label reading 'Special Business Executive Issue!' shows a businessman reading the magazine and saying 'Say! This is mighty snazzy!'

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · Sep 8

@bdcollins95.bsky.social has got an excellent review of the latest #Lovecraft anthology—it's not what you think!

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Cover illustration for 'The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath'- In the foreground a stairway of dark stone descends from the upper boughs of a tree, ending surreally in a split trunk, and a quartet of cats are lounging about at the foot of the stairs. Just beyond the tree we see a field full of five-petalled yellow-orange flowers, bordered in the middle distance by low, mist-shrouded woods, with a pair of golden palaces in the distance, backed by mountains and a red setting sun.

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · Sep 4

Andrea Castaneda is back, and even though she's over 30, we think you can trust her review of... GAS-S-S-S!

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A color photo of the movie poster for Gas-s-s-s. The title is printed in bubbly magenta capitals at the bottom of the poster, with air lines drawn above and below to make it look like the title is being blown out of the olive-drab rectangular balloon above it. Inside the balloon is a photograph of 11 men and women dressed in various hippie outfits, sitting or leaning on, around, or in front of a pale orange vehicle on a beach. One of the women standing to the left of the group appears to be pregnant. Next to her stands the only person of color in the group, a Black man wearing a sombrero and carrying a rifle with an ammunition belt across each shoulder. At the rear of the group, a man and woman in old-fashioned black formalwear stand over the others. The woman holds a crow perched on her left hand. All are looking blankly at the camera. A small cartoon movie ticket with a smiling mouth is superimposed over the bottom of the photo, with a speech bubble saying 'Lay a little fun on yourself'. At the top of the photo, a cloud-shaped white bubble contains magenta text reading 'Invite a few friends over to watch the end of the world!'

Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · Sep 2

The latest Analog #ScienceFiction wouldn't be worth picking up, save for one terrific piece...

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Colour cover illustration for the September 1970 issue of Analog magazine. A pair of bejeweled and vaguely fantasy-garbed white people stand in a forest looking shifty. The blonde bearded man at the fore is holding a large fork with each of its three tines emitting fields tinted primary colours which overlap and combine into bands of secondaries and a blossom of white light at the very tip. Meanwhile, the blonde woman is poised in the midground at the threshold of a glowing rectangular gateway. The portal opens into a twilit laboratory occupied by a third pale humanoid in a dark suit coat who is looking into the foreground.