Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction was an American magazine founded in 1950 by Horace L. Gold. It was a prominent publication in the 1950s, known for publishing many significant science fiction stories. The magazine often featured satires of contemporary American society and stories that drew on social sciences and psychology.1

Galaxy Science Fiction was part of a shift in science fiction publishing after World War II, moving from pulp magazines to digest-sized formats. It became a successful specialty press alongside The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The magazine's success contributed to science fiction's growing popularity, influenced by events like the development of the atomic bomb and the launch of Sputnik. Under Gold's editorship, the magazine published works by notable authors such as Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, Alfred Bester, and Isaac Asimov.21