Published from 1950? to 1980?.
Galaxy Science Fiction was a digest-size science fiction magazine, the creation of noted editor H. L. Gold, who found a responsive readership when he put the emphasis on imaginative sociological explorations of science fiction rather than hardware and pulp prose.
Begun as a monthly, the magazine varied between monthly, bimonthly and eventually irregularly-issued status at different times during its 30+ year run. In 1953 a French edition, Galaxie, was launched, and in 1957, a German edition, Galaxis.
With the January 1975 issue, Galaxy incorporated its sister magazine, Worlds of If, founded in March 1952, with which it had shared several editors after purchase from founding publisher James Quinn in the latter 1950s. In 1980, Galaxy was acquired from UPD Publishing by Boston's Avenue Victor Hugo as a companion magazine to their Galileo Science Fiction. Editor Floyd Kemske produced a single issue (July 1980) in a standard magazine format rather than a digest, but with no newsstand distribution, Galaxy ceased publication that same year.
