Avon published three related magazines in the late 1940s and early 1950s, titled Avon Fantasy Reader, Avon Science Fiction Reader, and Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader. These were digest size m
Cover of the first issue
Cover of the eighteenth issue
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Ace Books is a publisher of science fiction and fantasy books founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn. It began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns, and soon branched out into othe
Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Readers
…as a magazine by historians. This lasted for three issues, but in 1952 Wollheim, who disliked his job, left Avon to return to Ace, in order to start Ace Books. Meyers responding by merging the two series into one, titled Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader, edited by Sol Cohen, but only two issues appeared…
Ace Double D-36, Robert E. Howard's Conan the Conqueror. The novel on the reverse side was Leigh Brackett's The Sword of Rhiannon. Cover by Norman Saunders.
Joanna Russ's And Chaos Died (1970), from the first Ace Science Fiction Special series. Cover by Leo and Diane Dillon.