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IF 1964,January
Tight and almost square; magazine has slight upcurl towards spine; spine has some age-darkening. Price written in pen/marker at upper right corner of front cover; back cover has a haze of gray, pink, and yellow overall - I'm guessing ink-transfer from another magazine cover. Age-tanning is average for its vintage. No stamps, marks or writing. The final scan is a "file-copy" I had on hand from a previously sold copy - it is included to show the quality of the artwork by Finlay, and will not match the aging of this copy for sale.)
Worlds of IF - Science Fiction: January 1964 (Volume 13, Number 6)
Illustrations by McKenna, Gray Morrow, Nodel, Virgil Finlay. Cover by McKenna (for "Three Worlds to Conquer.")
Serial: "Three Worlds to Conquer" (Part 1 of 2) by Poul Anderson
Novelettes: "The Competitors" by Jack B. Lawson
"Waterspider" by Philip K. Dick (see note below)
Stories: "Mack" by R. J. Butler
"Car Pool" by Frank Banta
Feature: "Personal Monuments" by Theodore Sturgeon
Edited by Frederik Pohl. Theodore Sturgeon is Feature Editor.
"Waterspider" by Philip K. Dick has got to one of his weirdest or most outrageous stories. The main character is author Poul Anderson (yeah, the guy writing the serial in this issue.) He is kidnapped from a Science Fiction convention into the future by the Emigration Bureau, who think he can make their starships work, since they think that SF writers were Pre-Cogs who were writing about the future. One of his stories seems to apply to their situation - but since he left out the technical details, they want to question the man himself. Philip K. Dick paints an accurate portrait of Poul Anderson, and demonstrates that he knows his way about a SF Con. Who but P. K. Dick would think to write such a story? With 2 excellent Virgil Finlay illustrations.
