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Over the years—nearly fourteen of them have passed since the first issue of If hit the stands, part of the science-fiction explosion of the early 1950s —this little magazine has used up more editors than one would think. Paul Fairman, James L. Quinn, Eva Wulff, Larry T. Shaw, Damon Knight, and H. L. Gold all served their terms on the bridge, and it was with a certain surprise that we realized the other day that, with five years of running it behind us, we have become Ifs senior editor. When we took over, late in 1960, we had an idea that we knew what If ought to be. At that time there were five other science-fiction magazines
going in the United States. There was Galaxy, which we took on at the same time; there was John Campbell’s Analog; there was The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; and there were hoary old Amazing Stories, class of 1926, and its companion, Fantastic. That was all. Each of these magazines had something to recommend it, of course. They had to have: they were the survivors of the boom days when thirty or forty science-fiction magazines were dividing up the audience, and they would never have made it through the shake-out if they hadn’t built a sturdy core of readers. But estimable as they were, there were only six of them all told. And there were large areas of theme, all of them a part of science-fiction s proper concern, that either just wouldn’t fit in any of the existing magazines, or were obviously out of
place and uncomfortable there when they did.