Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. David Stone's cover for the first issue of Galaxy (October 1950) Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980. It was the creation of editor H. L. Gold, who found a responsive readership when he put the emphasis on imaginative sociological explorations of science fiction rather than hardware and pulp prose.