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ardeegee · 11-17-2009, 11:36 AM

I agree, I think it is very sad that, while so many older books are being digitized, old pulp Science Fiction magazine aren't. There is no excuse that there are not complete backlogs of Analog, Asimov's, Astounding, and others available. You can buy bulk lots of lots of different SF magazines on Ebay, but that isn't a good solution for you (assuming you are in the Melbourne in Australia and not the one in Florida.) Here's a pretty good lot, if you didn't faint at what the shipping cost turned out to be: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=350278101831

I have a couple of hundred old SF magazines dating back from the 50s, 60s and 70s that I was lucky enough to find as a box lot cheap at a flea market years back, plus more that I would buy at newsstands when they were new, and other old copies found elsewhere, including Ebay. But neither my bookshelves or my wallet would support buying all the thousands and thousands of issues printed across dozens of titles over the past several decades.

(I do have the entire print run of one pulp SF magazine that was dedicated to short stories only with no other content-- it lasted two issues.)

11-17-2009, 11:36 AM	#2
ardeegee Maratus speciosus butt Posts: 3,292 Karma: 1162698 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-350	I agree, I think it is very sad that, while so many older books are being digitized, old pulp Science Fiction magazine aren't. There is no excuse that there are not complete backlogs of Analog, Asimov's, Astounding, and others available. You can buy bulk lots of lots of different SF magazines on Ebay, but that isn't a good solution for you (assuming you are in the Melbourne in Australia and not the one in Florida.) Here's a pretty good lot, if you didn't faint at what the shipping cost turned out to be: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=350278101831 I have a couple of hundred old SF magazines dating back from the 50s, 60s and 70s that I was lucky enough to find as a box lot cheap at a flea market years back, plus more that I would buy at newsstands when they were new, and other old copies found elsewhere, including Ebay. But neither my bookshelves or my wallet would support buying all the thousands and thousands of issues printed across dozens of titles over the past several decades. (I do have the entire print run of one pulp SF magazine that was dedicated to short stories only with no other content-- it lasted two issues.)