You can now read the entirety of sci-fi magazine If for free
Easy to read on line–just click the cover, then turn the pages by clicking on the right upper corner. You can also download the magazines in various formats. I’ve seen questions raised about copyrights, so keep that in mind. The site is here.
The middle of the 20th century was an exciting time for science fiction, filled with experimentation and new ideas, an endeavour helmed by genre icons like Harlan Ellison and Frank Herbert. If magazine, which ran between 1952 and 1974, played home to many of these names along with a myriad of now-historic work. And now, it’s all available for free in a variety of file formats.
According to BoingBoing, all 176 issues of If have been made available via the Internet Archive, including the ones edited by Hugo Award-winning Frederik Pohl. His greatest contribution to the magazine was, perhaps, the introduction of the “If-first” series, which showcased new authors. A number of these writers went on to become extremely well-known, most notably Larry Niven, who published his first story in the magazine. READ MORE about the magazine