[Daily article] October 24: Super-Science Fiction

Super-Science Fiction was an American digest science fiction magazine
published from 1956 to 1959, edited by W. W. Scott and published by
Feature Publications. Robert Silverberg and Harlan Ellison were already
selling crime stories to Scott for his other magazines, Trapped and
Guilty, and started bringing him scores of science fiction stories as
well. Many of the magazine's stories were sent in by literary agents,
and generally comprised material rejected by other magazines first,
though Scott did obtain two stories from Isaac Asimov. After a couple of
years Feature switched the focus to monster stories, hoping to cash in
on the trend that was making Famous Monsters of Filmland a success at
that time, and four more issues appeared before Super-Science Fiction
was discontinued in 1959. The magazine is not highly regarded by
critics, though Silverberg considers the material he wrote for Scott to
have helped him learn his trade as a writer.

Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Science_Fiction>

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1851:

William Lassell discovered the Uranian moons Umbriel and Ariel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_%28moon%29>

1918:

The Battle of Vittorio Veneto, the last major engagement on the
Italian front of World War I, began.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vittorio_Veneto>

1945:

The UN Charter, the constitution of the United Nations, entered
into force after being ratified by the five permanent members of the
Security Council and a majority of the other signatories.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_United_Nations>

1960:

A prototype of the Soviet R-16 intercontinental ballistic
missile exploded on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the
Kazakh SSR.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe>

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

coin of the realm:
1. (law, dated) The legal money of a country.
2. (figurative) Something that is valued like money within a particular
context.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coin_of_the_realm>

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;
leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right
wall.  
--Stephen Covey
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Covey>

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