Eusebius asked:
I thought Bradbury’s “Farenheit 451″ had been published for the first time in Playboy (starting in the second issue in 1954), but I cannot find any precise reference, so I may be wrong. Any help on that?
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The 1950’s established the mag as more than just another “girly” publication, with fictional contributions like Walter Tevis’s “The Hustler” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” Artist Leroy Neiman’s (search) “Femlin,” a cartoon vixen, “enlivened the Party Jokes page.”
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A serialized version of Fahrenheit 451 appeared in the March, April, and May 1954 issues of Playboy.
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It appeared in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th issues:
According to Ray Bradbury Online, this book was first published in 1953 and gives no mention of a Playboy printing. For some reason, I was thinking of something by Asimov or Clarke, but since I didn’t subscribe to Playboy back then and neither did my father, I have no way to check it out. Have you checked the Playboy website to see if they have this kind of information on line?
“Which famous SF novel was published in the very first Playboy issues?”