1. UK pocketbook-size magazine, fourteen numbered, undated issues 1950-1954, published by John Spencer, London; edited anonymously by Samuel Assael and Maurice Nahum. Worlds of Fantasy is almost identical to the other three Spencer juvenile-sf magazines, Futuristic Science Stories, Tales of Tomorrow and Wonders of the Spaceways, all containing fiction of very low quality, though it did contain some relatively decent fiction by John S Glasby and E C Tubb. An associated house name was Hamilton Donne. (For more information on Spencer's publications see Badger Books.) [FHP/DRL/MA]
2. US Digest-size magazine. Four issues 1968-1971, the first [Fall 1968] published by Galaxy Publishing Corp, the remaining three by Universal Publishing; the first two edited by Lester del Rey, and the remaining two by Ejler Jakobsson. This attempt to produce a fantasy companion to Galaxy Science Fiction – it published a lot of Sword-and-Sorcery material – might well have succeeded had it had better distribution. The standard was good: Worlds of Fantasy published The Tombs of Atuan (Winter 1970-1971 #3; exp 1971) by Ursula K Le Guin, "Reality Doll" (Spring 1971; exp 1971 as Destiny Doll) by Clifford D Simak, and early stories by Michael Bishop and James Tiptree Jr. [PN]
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