If, September-October 1971
From Author Wars - https://authorwars.com/publications/if-september-october-1971-58836.html
Overview:
- Title: If, September-October 1971
- Author: Ejler Jakobsson
- Year: 1971
- Publisher: UPD Publishing Corporation
- Price: $0.75
- Pages: 180
- Binding: digest
- Type: MAGAZINE
- Title Reference: The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
- Notes:
- Vol. 21, No. 1, Issue 156
- Titled Worlds of If Science Fiction on the cover and the contents page. Titled If Science Fiction on the spine.
- Cover and spine dated October 1971. Contents page dated September-October 1971.
- Cover illustrates "The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World" as noted on the Contents/copyright page (scanned version from archive.org).
- Inside pages run 1-176, not including the covers.
- UK Price 25p, this issue was distributed in both US and UK.
- The story "To Kill a Venusian" is plagiarized. It was written originally by Anthony Boucher, and published as "Nine-Finger Jack," in F&SF, August 1952.
- Except for the piece by Charles R. Knight (courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History), no interior illustrations are explicitly credited. Jack Gaughan's art identified by signature.
- Some copies of this issue may have missing or repeated pages. "Star Light" is listed as "StarLight".