{"id":934,"date":"2013-12-24T23:16:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T05:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=934"},"modified":"2013-12-24T23:16:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T05:16:56","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Astounding<\/a>\"Emsh<\/a>\"Galaxy<\/a>\"galaxy<\/a><\/p>\n

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Merry Christmas to all, whatever race you belong to or planet you hail from. \u00a0I thought I would provide a few examples of Christmas as seen through the covers of some vintage science fiction magazines.<\/p>\n

The Astounding<\/em> is the January 1955 issue, with a cover by Frank Kelly Freas. \u00a0John W. Campbell Jr. published a number of Christmas covers during his tenure as editor.<\/p>\n

Ed Emshwiller, who often signed his work Emsh, was the artist for the image in the upper right as well as the\u00a0Galaxy<\/em> cover from 1953. \u00a0The artist for the December 1960 Galaxy<\/em> was Ross Rosenberger. \u00a0I’m not familiar with his work. \u00a0Galaxy<\/em> ran a whole series of Christmas covers featuring the four-armed Santa in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

I really like these covers because, like many sf magazine covers from the 1950s, they have a sense of whimsy about them. \u00a0In many ways they show contemporary scenes in a science fiction settings, such as the aliens spying on Santa and Santa receiving the alien carolers.<\/p>\n

One of the memories I have about Christmas while in middle school and high school was the science fiction paperbacks I received as Christmas presents, many of them anthologies containing stories from these magazines. \u00a0The Christmas breaks were when I had plenty of time on my hands with no homework and could get a lot of reading done.<\/p>\n

Have a Merry Christmas, everyone.<\/p>\n

Different Christmas posts are up at Adventures Fantastic<\/a>, Dispatches From the Lone Star Front<\/a>, and Gumshoes, Gats, and Gams<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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