GRADING:
title:
VG to VG+
IF 1962,September
Tight and almost square. Very little wear to outside; age-tanning is average or a little worse. No stamps, marks or writing. My usual grading for this would be VG+ to near-Fine, but I'm downgrading for a printing fault. On pages 71 to 78 (the Joseph Green novelet) - the printing on each page has slipped down so that the top margin is 1-1/4" instead of 5/8" - and about one line of text is lost from the bottom of each affected page. Since this affects only one story I consider the problem irritating but limited in scope.
Worlds of IF - Science Fiction: May 1962 Volume 12, No. 2
Illustrations by Mack, Burns, Dyas, Jack Gaughan, R. D. Francis. Cover by Wenzel (for "The Snowbank Orbit")
Novelettes: "The Snowbank Orbit" by Fritz Leiber
"The Winning of the Moon" by Kris Neville
"The Big Headache" by Jim Harmon
"Once Around Arcturus" by Joseph Green
"Cultural Exchange" by Keith Laumer (a "Retief" story)
Stories: "1,492,633 Marlon Brandos" by Vance Aandahl
"And Then There Was Peace" by Gordon R. Dickson
"Transient" by William Harris
"World in a Mirror" by Albert Teichner
Feature: "Just Westing" by Theodore Sturgeon
Frederik Pohl is editor. Theodore Sturgeon is Feature Editor. Another plug for the "Retief" stories of Keith Laumer - all are fun, have some bite, and most had title-changes when collected.
