The magazine Unknown (or Unknown Worlds ) is a pulp of Fantasy published of 1939 to 1943. It is strongly related to the magazine Astounding Stories , that John Campbell also published. More than one author and more than one illustrator contributed to the two magazines.
The style and the approach of the stories of the magazine are an hybrid between fantasy and the Science fiction. The stories start with unexpected situations, often cocasses, in which a creature fantastic is introduced into a traditionally ordinary world. For example, in the news Nothing in the Rules of L. Sprague de Camp, the manager of a team of swimming tries to gain a competition by having recourse to a siren.
Other stories use cold logic in a fantastic world. The series Harold Shea share of the assumption that the traditional fantastic worlds, such as the Scandinavian Mythology, are based on mathematical rules.
The magazine also includes stories of science fictions which use topics of the fantasy. For example, Darker than You Think presupposes that them wolves-garous exists, but that they are not supernatural and try to explain the usual beliefs without resorting to the fantasy.
History of publication
The Roaring Trumpet (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt) Of its first publication until the end of 1940, the magazine is monthly. Of February 1941 until its end, it is semi-monthly. From February 1940 in August 1941, it be entitled Unknown Fantasy Fiction , then it becomes Unknown Worlds . cost of publication of the last publications is reduced by eliminating the image from cover. The restrictions of war on paper seem responsible for its end.Shortly after its disappearance, a anthology with rigid cover the same ones dimensions appears under the title of From Unknown Worlds .
Contributions
- The Book off Ptath, (A.E. van Vogt)
- The Castle off Iron, (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, series Harold Shea )
- Darker Than Your Think, (Jack Williamson)
- Etaoin Shrdlu, (Fredric Brown)
- Fear, (L. Ron. Hubbard)
- The Gnarly Man, (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Ballast Darkness Fall, (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Divide And Rule, (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Magic, Inc., (Robert A. Heinlein)
- The Mathematics off Magic, (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, series Harold Shea )
- The Roaring Trumpet, (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, series Harold Shea )
- Sinister Barrier, (Eric Frank Russell)
- Slavic off Sleep, (L. Ron. Hubbard)
- Snulbug, (Anthony Boucher)
- Two Sought Adventure, (Fritz Leiber)
- The Ultimate Egoist, (Theodore Sturgeon)
- It (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Typewriter in the Sky, (L. Ron. Hubbard)
- The Wheels off Yew, (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Disorder with Toilets (Horace Gold)
- The Ultimate Wish (E. Mr. Hull)
Unknown also published the first history of science fiction or fantasy of the authors Fritz Leiber ( Two Sought Adventure ), Theodore Sturgeon ( has God in has Garden ) and James H. Schmitz ( Greenface ).
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