As I was reshuffling our (i.e. ISFDB.org's) magazine pages, I recalled
this exchange that took place some 10 weeks ago:
On Jan 22, 2008, 20:25:05 PST, Ahasuerus <ahasue...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>On Jan 22, 10:04 pm, Butch Malahide <fred.gal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>[snip]
>> Also, there's the problem that the ISFDB doesn't
>> have quite everything. In fact, they're missing whole magazines; e.g.,
>> I couldn't even find Gamma (5 issues in the early 1960s) in their list
>> of magazines.
>
> Too true :( We are missing at least 129 magazine issues from the 1960s
> alone, mostly the semi-prozines and various oddballs like _The Hidden
> World_, _True Twilight Tales_ and _Prize Ghost Stories_. Worse, we still
> need to enter most of the _Marvels_, _Fantasy Books_, _Astoni****ngs_
> and _Science Fiction_ from the Golden Age. [snip]
At this point, we have all _Gamma_, _Marvel_, _Fantasy Book_
(1947-1951), _Astoni****ng_, and _Science Fiction_ issues in the
database, although some still need to be verified. Our records are far
from complete, but when you take a step back and review the progress
since May 1, 2006, the day when we began beta testing ISFDB-2, it's
actually fairly impressive. On the downside, now that most of the Good
Old Stuff has been entered, those of us who handle older SF have
little choice but to concentrate on the Bad Old Stuff, which can be
quite bad indeed. I am working on _Fantasy Fiction_ (the 1950 version)
at the moment and the stench can be overwhelming at times...
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