Stardate (2 results)

Slick Magazine. First edition. No 9 (December 1985). US Games magazine which for the first seven issues ran no fiction: from no 8 fiction was included for four more issues, before folding with no 11, and reverting to just a Gaming magazine with no fiction again. Fine (unread) copy.

Slick Magazine. First nine issues of SF/Gaming Slick Magazine, published first by gaming company FASA for five issues (no 1, 2, 3/4, 5/6, 7), November 1984-August 1985. These five issues (''The Magazine Of Science Fiction And Gaming''0 contained no fiction, but did have sf reviews and articles. With no 8 (October 1985) Stardate changed hands (to Associates International, Inc, Delaware), and subtitle (becomng Stardate: The Multi-Media Science Fiction Magazine), with new editor David Bischoff (with assistant editor, Ted White),and contents - one third gaming, one third film/tv and one third fiction (the latter including two comic strips). The fiction, which included stories by William Gibson, Jack Haldeman, Damon Knight, Rudy Rucker, Robert Sheckley, John Shirley and William F Wu, was good, often very good, but sat uneasily in what still presented itself overall as a gaming magazine. Nevertheless it was an improving package, with circulation and interest increasing, when it all suddenly collapsed after the discovery that the financial status of the publishing company's backer was not as rock-solid as had first seemed. Overnight the magazine had to be wound up and sold. As a fiction print magazine it lasted four issues to no 11 (March/April 1986). The magazine was sold to Reluctant Publishing, Utica, Michigan and returned in February 1987 as volume 3, in much the same format as the original gaming magazine, though not on slick paper. This incarnation ran no fiction, though it did carry a continuing Star Trek role-playing adventure. It lasted for six issues, to August 1987, before it ceased again through funding problems, but had one last gasp, retitled Stardrive, for just one issue in February 1988 before ceasing altogether. In the circumstances Bischoff and White did an excellent job at producing a hybrid magazine with good quality fiction, unfortunately sandwiched in the middle of a very traditional gaming title'' {Mike Ashley & Peter Nicholls/Encyclopedia of SF, 4th Edition).]. Fine (as new) copies.