Galactic Journey

The Journey is looking for time traveling writers to join our staff of book and magazine reviewers! Anyone interested in experiencing (the best parts of) 1971? Drop us a line!

Cover for Quark 2 showing a picture of a boy with a fishtail for legs against crumpled material background. Text at the top says: A paperback library original review Quark/2 A quarterly review of speculative fiction by John Brunner, Thomas Disch, Carol Emshwiller, Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Lieber, James Sallis and Others. Edited by Samuel R. Delaney and Marilyn Hacker.

@krisvm.bsky.social tackles the latest issue of Quark — whatever it is, it ain't #ScienceFiction!

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Rod Serling stands presenting his work

Amber determines that the next batch of Rod Serling's Night Gallery is way better than the first!

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Cover of IF. Orbs of various colors and textures circle the head of a woman wearing a circlet.

David tracks the mediocritization of IF #ScienceFiction... and memorializes the most important cartoonist you've barely heard of:

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Apollo 14 schedule

Tune in tonight at 1am Pacific for all night LIVE Apollo 14 Moon landing and Moonwalk coverage!

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Colour photograph of the cover of the February 1971 issue of Analog, depicting a space craft closely resembling a fighter jet taking off from a rather carrier-esque vessel and curving in flight towards Earth, featuring the story 'The World Menders' by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

Venera 7 approaches Venus (painting)

Spherical capsule emblazoned CCCP on the hellish surface of Venus (painting)

A tremendous #space success for the Soviets! And... a less than stellar outing for John Campbell's Analog #ScienceFiction

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Starting in less than two hours!!!! Don't miss it!

Sustained, joy-tinged contentment.

Apollo 14 schedule

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The three Apollo 14 astronauts in front of their mission insignia

This is it! Apollo 14 coverage starts THIS WEEKEND (January 31st) at 11am.

This is to-the-second "live" coverage of the entire Apollo 14 mission with all extant footage: YOU ARE THERE.

PLEASE tell all your friends and mark your calendars.

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#NASA #Moon #space

LA 2017 in MICR font overlays a desolate, orange-filtered landscape with an ambulance parked in the distance

Lorelei takes on LA 2017, and Jason reviews Brewster McCloud: two #ScienceFiction pieces for the price of one!

Cover of the first issue of the New Gods featuring a masked man in an orange and purple skinsuit flying a rocketpack away from a green planet

Jason Sacks is positively verklempt over the newest National (DC) Comics creation:

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A person holding a bearded dragon standing next to a brown and white pug dog, both pets looking quizzically at the camera

"Two pets, both alike in dignity..."

Full-scale model of Lunokhod-1 Soviet Moon rover looking like a truck mated with a spider

So much space news, it wouldn't fit in one article! Learn about the Russian "Man" on the Moon... and what the French are doing:

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The Master's first appearance. He has dark hair slicked back, a goatee and sports a black Nehru jacket.

@holmesja.bsky.social serves up another funny review for the latest #DoctorWho

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A man and woman stand on either side of the Uhuru satellite. The man is Riccardo Giacconi, the woman Marjorie Townsend.

Who is Marjorie Townsend, and how will her #Uhuru satellite discover new secrets of the universe? Kaye Dee has a thrilling story for you:

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#NASA #space

cover of the issue, predominately in reds, featuring a stylized, golden figure of a man hanging in the ropes beneath a hot-air balloon

Jack Vance starts a new #ScienceFiction classic in the latest #Fantasy and Science Fiction!

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Apollo 14 schedule

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Cover for Worlds of Fantasy #3, depicting Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin, showing two robed figures walking over a desert landscape with seven dark standing stones behind them. Behind them is the transluscent image of a skull in orange wearing a bat winged helmet. Text on the cover: Worlds of Fantasy Issue 3, 1970-71 75¢ MAC What do you mean - Fantasy? Theodore Sturgeon In a blue blox: Complete new novel by this year's Hugo winner! The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin Bottom text reads: In the Cards - Robert Bloch Among the Grimoires - Lester Del Rey"

More than half of the latest Worlds of Fantasy magazine was written by women! Unprecedented! And a pretty good issue. Check it out:

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Five SF book covers

Seven SF book covers

We covered 12 #ScienceFiction books this month! See the verdicts:

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@corabuhlert.bsky.social , assuredly, but it does seem a Frazetta thing.

Traynor, an older man with messy white hair and close-trimmed beard and mustache, holds Liz in a headlock, aiming a large knife at her face.

The British #ScienceFiction show, "TimeSlip", is finally starting to warm up to itself... pun intended:

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February 1971 cover of 'Fantastic Stories' featuring a woman in dark robes covered in planets and stars standing before a large pillar. pink clouds billow behind her.

A pair of terrific vignettes make the latest Fantastic Science Fiction and Fantasy worth your time!

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Title card for the TV series Night Gallery. It shows the words Night Gallery in block letters in a frame over a dark, obscure image.

Rod Serling's Night Gallery has become a regular part of this year's television season... but does it live up to the pilot's promise? Amber has the details:

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"Cover of Feruary 1971's cover of Galaxy Science Fiction featuring a round robot with a large green eye, holding an American flag and wearing a peace sign necklace.

Someone's hijacked Galaxy #ScienceFiction — can someone bring it back from Cuba?

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Colour photo of a fabric sample with repeating tessellated geometric hexagonal patterns suggesting spirals. The patterns are composed of black, mustard, and lime trapezoidal bars against a white field

Mod or hippie? The new mode of fashion combines both!

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Willy Brandt kneeling on the cover of issue 51/1970 of Der Spiegel.

The Cold War is thawing... why did West German prime minister Willy Brandt drop to his knees in Poland? @corabuhlert.bsky.social has the news:

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Cover for the Orbit 8 anthology. A list of authors appears below the title. Beneath, a huge spherical alien creature with eyes and tentacles emerging from the sphere at various angles appears to be floating through a yellow expanse of space. A rocket, appearing minuscule next to the alien, points upward in front of it.

The latest edition of Orbit #ScienceFiction starts rough, but there are enough good stories to make it worth your time:

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Cover of Analog magazine for January 1971. It announces the story The Telzey Toy by James H. Schmitz. The cover illustration shows a man in a lab examining a shining cube where two naked women in a red forest are visible.

James H. Schmitz delivers the #ScienceFIction goods in the latest issue of #Analog!

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Poster for 'The Ballad of Tam-Lin'

@drfionamoore.bsky.social and George offer up reviews of a pair of new British productions: Tam-Lin and Robin Redbreast!

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