Talk:Super Science Stories

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Edit re Pohl's use of a pseudonym

 * re this edit, Pohl's use of a pseudonym could well have been seen (perhaps by his boss) as deceitful, since he was paying himself for these stories, but since he was using a pseudonym for all his work at this point in his career you could also say it was business as usual for him and not deceitful. That was the implication that I was trying to make with that form of words; I don't want to be explicit since I don't think the source goes into this at all (I'll check later). Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 21:55, 6 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Mike: got you. OK. But "in fact" is, IMO, a bit of a phrase to watch; are we implying that other statements aren't? How would you feel about "All the stories Pohl bought from himself were published under pseudonyms; he continued to use pseudonyms for everything he wrote until the 1950s" or similar? Hee - you have just had me checking my 1981 vintage Encyclopedia of SF. (No joy.)


 * Or "Pohl ensured that all the stories he bought from himself were published under pseudonyms ... "? Gog the Mild (talk) 22:07, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Just had a look and I can't find the source right now; it'll turn up. I think we can leave this as you have it, and I'll tweak it when I find the source, if there's anything there to justify more details. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 14:51, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

"was"
The first line in the article reads:

(emphasis mine) This suggests that the magazine no longer exists. Surely, it is out of circulation, but it remains a magazine that can be read, doesn't it? At WP Video games, we handle games as still being a game as long as one can still play (not obtain) this game. This only renders online-only games where the game servers have been shut down (thus there no longer being anything to play) as "dead". Lordtobi ( &#9993; ) 11:21, 18 December 2019 (UTC)