What is Fantastic Science Fiction?
{{Infobox magazine | logo = | logo_size = <!-- default is 180px --> | image_file = | image_size = <!-- default is 180px --> | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = [[Howard Browne]] | editor_title = <!-- up to |editor_title5= --> | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = [[Fantasy fiction]], [[science fiction]] | frequency = | format = [[Digest size]] | circulation = | publisher = [[Ziff Davis]] | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = | founded = 1952 | firstdate = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | finaldate = 1980<!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | finalnumber = | company = | country = United States | based = | language = English | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | issn = | oclc = }} '''''Fantastic''''' was an American [[digest size|digest-size]] [[fantasy fiction magazine|fantasy]] and [[science fiction magazine]]. It was published from 1952 to 1980. [[Ziff Davis]] started it as a fantasy companion to ''[[Amazing Stories]]''. Within a few years sales went down. [[Howard Browne]], the editor, was forced to switch to science fiction not fantasy. Browne lost interest in the magazine. The magazine often published poor-quality fiction in the mid-1950s, under Browne and his successor, [[Paul W. Fairman]]. At the end of the 1950s, [[Cele Goldsmith]] took over as editor of both ''Fantastic'' and ''Amazing Stories''. Goldsmith helped to support the early careers of writers such as [[Roger Zelazny]] and [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. In 1965 the magazines were sold to [[Sol Cohen]], who hired Joseph Wrzos as editor and switched to a [[reprint]]-only policy. This was financially successful, but brought Cohen into conflict with the newly formed [[Science Fiction Writers of America]]. At the end of the 1960s, [[Ted White (author)|Ted White]]