Worlds of If, February 2024

Overview:

• Title: Worlds of If, February 2024
• Author: Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
• Year: 2024
• ISBN-10: 9798988634218
• Publisher: Starship Sloane Publishing
• Price: $9.99
• Pages: 84
• Binding: digest
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Title Reference: The Pain Peddlers
• Notes:
  • Stated as vol. 1, no. 1, but also as (whole) issue #177.
  • The page count begins on the first interior page (the inner front cover is blank).
  • The editors are credited on the copyright page (p. 2) as follows: Justin T. O'Conor Sloane, Editor-in-Chief; Jean-Paul L. Garnier, Deputy Editor-in-Chief; Dr. Daniel Pomarède, Science Editor; Robert Silverberg, Contributing Editor.
  • The editorials beginning respectively on pp. 2 & 6 emphasize that Sloane and Garnier did edit this issue in partnership (though with somewhat different preferences); the format is given as 'digest' within Sloane's editorial.
  • The table of contents and the copyright section are printed on page 1.
  • The cover art is credited within the table of contents and is titled 'Tau Zero'.
  • The gallery of drawings by Pennington on pp. 53-59 features works that were previously unpublished in print — with the exception of the first.
  • Pp. 8, 35, 60, 70 and 76-78 are pure ad pages (there are some more smaller sized ads); p. 79 is blank and p. 80 has the printing statement (PV1's copy was printed in France by Amazon).
  • P. 81 (the inner back cover) again is blank; Andrew Stewart's artwork "Outland" graces the back cover (page 82 by numbering, but p. 84 within the overall page count).
  • The ISSN 2996-0916 (for the print publication) is printed on the cover and appears in the copyright section on p. 1.
  • The design and layout are credited to {{A|F. J. Bergmann}}.
  • There's no price statement to be found within this issue (it was taken for this entry from Amazon.com).