Editing Galaxy Science Fiction (section)

===1960s===
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|colspan="13" style="font-size: 8pt; text-align:left"|Issues of ''Galaxy'' from 1960 to 1969, showing volume/issue number. Issues are<br/>color-coded to show when each editor was in charge; the editorship passed from<br/>H.L. Gold to Frederik Pohl and then to Ejler Jakobsson during the 1960s.<ref name=TA_290-309/>  Note<br/>that the apparent error in volume numbering in late 1969 is in fact correct.
|}Guinn acquired ''[[If (magazine)|If]]'', another science fiction magazine, in 1959, and gave it to Gold to edit as well.  The July 1959 issue of ''If'' was the first under Gold's editorship.  ''Galaxy''{{'s}} shift to a bimonthly schedule had been intended to help reduce the workload on Gold, who was not in good health; he was able to take on ''If'' as well because the two magazines alternated months of publication.<ref name=TM_197>Ashley, ''Transformations'', p.&nbsp;197.</ref>  Towards the end of the 1950s Frederik Pohl began to help Gold, occasionally to the extent of performing all the editorial duties, including writing the editorials and blurbs and working with the printer.  Gold, who was agoraphobic, was making efforts at this time to leave his apartment, but in 1960 he was seriously injured in a taxi accident, and proved unable to continue as editor. Pohl took over at some point in early 1961, though he was not listed on the masthead as editor until the December 1961 issue.<ref name=TM_205>Ashley, ''Transformations'', p.&nbsp;205.</ref><ref>Pohl, ''The Way the Future Was'', pp.&nbsp;190–191.</ref>

Pohl attempted to persuade Guinn to double the pay rate of one and a half cents a word back to the former level of three. Guinn refused, but Pohl was able to find enough material that he could purchase at a low rate to allow him to offer some authors three cents per word. The strategy was successful in improving circulation, and Guinn eventually acceded to the rate increase.<ref>Pohl, ''The Way the Future Was'', pp.&nbsp;196–199.</ref>

Pohl also tried hard to persuade Guinn and [[Sol Cohen]], whom Guinn had hired to help with the publishing duties, to switch both ''Galaxy'' and ''If'' to monthly schedules. In late 1962, they agreed, but soon changed their minds and decided to start a third science fiction magazine instead. This was ''[[Worlds of Tomorrow (magazine)|Worlds of Tomorrow]]'', which was launched in April 1963 and lasted until mid-1967 (it was briefly revived in 1970–71).<ref>Pohl, ''The Way the Future Was'', pp.&nbsp;202–204.</ref><ref>Ashley, ''Gateways to Forever'', p.&nbsp;444.</ref> Another companion magazine, ''[[International Science Fiction]]'', was tried in late 1967, but lasted only two issues; it showcased stories translated from other languages, and sales were very weak.<ref name=TA_355-6>Tymn & Ashley, ''Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines'', pp.&nbsp;355–356</ref>  Finally, in 1968 Guinn launched ''[[Worlds of Fantasy]]'', edited initially by [[Lester del Rey]], ''Galaxy''{{'s}} managing editor; only four issues appeared.<ref name=TA_771-3>Tymn & Ashley, ''Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines'', pp.&nbsp;771–773</ref> In the middle of 1968, ''Galaxy'' was restored to a monthly schedule.<ref name=TA_290-309/>