Introduction

There have been two distinct reprint editions of "Science Fiction Quarterly"

• SFQ1 - two issues published by GG Swan in 1943; and
• SFQ2 - ten issues published by Hermitage Publications and distributed by Thorpe & Porter of Leicester, England

Arguably there was another, a single issue published as #15 of the Swan American Magazines series, qv, but I have chosen to describe it under that title, rather than as a separate edition of SFQ.

SFQ1

GG Swan published two magazines in 1943 entitled "The Moon Conquerors" and "Into the Fourth Dimension". These were the titles of the lead stories but each was, in fact, a nearly complete reprint of an issue of the US "Science Fiction Quarterly". "Moon Conquerors" had five of the six stories from the original magazine, "Fourth Dimension" six out of eight. Though "Moon Conquerors" had more pages than the magazine it was reproduced from, it was only digest-sized. The covers were extremely crude imitations by unknown artists of the corresponding covers of the original magazines, printed in monochrome blue, presumably a war-time austerity measure.

SFQ2

The US SF Quarterly resumed publication in 1951 after an eight-year gap and Thorpe & Porter published ten issues in the British reprint edition between 1952 and 1955. The final issue in August 1955 must have been one of the last full-sized pulps published in Britain. The US magazine, incidentally, continued in the pulp format until the end of its run in 1958.

#1, 2 and 10 look to be complete reproductions of the original, with only the advertisements changed, while #7 and 8 have extra stories, presumably replacing adverts in the originals. The remaining issues are 32 pages short of their US counterparts and lack one or two stories each. It appears that the original artwork has been used on the covers.

Source of images

I believe that the images of the first series come from the collection of Sean and Morgan Wallace. The images of the saecond series are all scanned from copies in my own collection.