Foundation, #41 Winter 1987

Overview:

  • Title: Foundation, #41 Winter 1987
  • Author: Edward James, Ian Watson, John Clute
  • Year: 1987
  • Publisher: North East London Polytechnic
  • Price: £2.95
  • Pages: 108
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Title Reference: Foundation - 1987
  • Notes:
    • Publisher stated as 'North East London Polytechnic on behalf of the Science Fiction Foundation' on the copyright page.
    • Special tribute issue for Arthur C. Clarke, corresponding to the author's 70th birthday.
    • Page numbering starts on the first interior (third) page. The last numbered page is 100, followed by the ad pages 101-104, the inside back cover (also an ad page) and the back cover.
    • The subscription price for an individual is stated as £8.50 in the UK & Ireland and $17.00 in the USA and Canada & £9.00 in other countries via surface mail (prices for institutions were higher).
    • Valerie Buckle is stated as Assistant Editor and David Pringle as Advisory Editor on contents page (p. 1f.)
    • The Editorial by Edward James is dated December 1987.
    • The titles for the letters are drawn from the table of contents (on p. 2).
    • P. 4 also is an ad page (for "2061: Odysses Three" by Clarke).
    • "The cover photograph, of the teenage Arthur C. Clarke in front of his shelves of Amazing and Astounding, was kindly loaned by Fred Clarke (...)." stated on back. There are two additional photographs within Fred Clarke's essay [pp12/13], one by Clarke, the other by Val Cleaver.