The golden age of Science Fiction - When our astronauts where rocketeers that conquered space in V2 🚀 lookalikes wearing fishbowl helmets. The good old times when nuclear was atomic, robots were clunky metallurgic automatons regularly to be seen carrying off beautiful maidens, and computers, despite having already utilized a tantalizingly exotic particle called the positron - which clearly did nothing to streamline their design - remained massive objects on the scale of the then contemporary ENIACs and EDVACs. Many a grandmaster of Science Fiction left his/her mark in this magazine. Amongst the quaint and quirky, the cliched and trite banalities there are pearls to find.
The stories might be of varying quality, yet the importance these magazine held for, then, upcoming new writers can not be overestimated - the golden age of science fiction has passed but left a fantastic legacy. ( )