Space Science Fiction Magazine

Cover shows four women in short gowns holding spiked poles and facing three men in helmets, one of whom has turned away with his hand on his chest. There are more women standing near a rocket in the background. — The Spring 1957 issue of *Space Science Fiction Magazine*; the first of the two issues that appeared. The cover illustrates Milton Lesser's "The New World to Conquer", in which spacemen come upon a planet of women who think of men as drones.

Space Science Fiction Magazine was a US science fiction magazine published by Republic Features Syndicate, Inc. as part of a package of radio shows and related genre magazines. It was edited by Michael Avallone, though the masthead listed Lyle Kenyon Engel as editor instead. Two issues appeared, both in 1957. It published short stories by well-known writers, including Arthur C. Clarke and Jack Vance, but it was not successful, and the magazine ceased publication late in 1957.