Tomorrow
Tomorrow was the quarterly journal of the Science Fiction Association, the UK's first national fan organization. It ran for seven issues in two series, edited in Leeds by Douglas W. F. Mayer in 1937–8. The first four were duplicated, half-quarto fanzines with stiff card covers.
Starting with the fifth issue, Walter Gillings's Scientifiction: The British Fantasy Review (7 issues January 1937 – March 1938) was folded into Tomorrow, at which point it shifted to full US quarto size and continued Scientifiction's full litho reproduction. Unfortunately, this proved too expensive for the SFA's finances to bear (the price rose by a penny to sixpence, or a year's subscription 1/9 or 50 cents), and after three litho issues Tomorrow ceased publication.
Tomorrow was nominated for the 1939 Best Fanzine Retro Hugo at Loncon 3 2014 Worldcon. It placed third, after Imagination! and Novae Terrae.
| Issue | Date | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| V1.1 | Spring 1937 | 24 | Duplicating by: G.A. Airey & D.W.F. Mayer. Cover Printing by: H.Gottliffe and J.M. Rosenblum. Printed by The Nova Press, 13 Bentcliffe Avenue [=Gottliffe's address]. 24 inner pages, not counting covers. |
| V1.2 | Summer 1937 | 24 | Cover printed red and blue, but "threedimensional" stenciled letters not well readable. "Some new Light on "Pulp" Question" pp 10–11, interview with Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co. Ltd. which imported US magazines to UK |
| V1.3 | Autumn 1937 | 24 | |
| V1.4 | Winter 1938 | 24 | Cover extremely cheap, only typewritten without any typography/art |
| (5) V2.1 | Spring 1938 | 16 | Now subtitled "The Magazine of the Future and with a masthead interlineation "WHAT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR TODAY IS MUCH TOO BAD FOR TOMORROW". " Associate Editor: Walter H. Gillings. Circulation Manager: F. V. Gillard. Assistant: W.G. Stone. Pp 14–5 letters by Jack Speer, John Russell Fearn, Eric Frank Russell and Wilfred P. Cockcroft. 16 pages including front and back cover, newspaper-like; back cover promotion of The Science-Fiction Association |
| (6) V2.2 | Summer 1938 | 16 | Somewhat different SFA promotion at the back |
| (7) V2.3 | Autumn 1938 | 16 | "Published on the first day of February, May, August and November"; no mention of closing down. Editorial comments disapprovingly on the Munich Agreement. SFA promotion only bottom half of back cover, above overflowing letters and small advertisements |
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- Tomorrow online at fiawol.org.uk – page scans and/or OCRed text version in HTML
- Tomorrow online at fanac.org (page images, only #2 and 4)
| Publication | 1937—1938 |
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