 There was also an Australian edition, which was identical to the British version but dated two months later.The original version was only moderately successful, although it is remembered for the first publication of Sturgeon's Law.The publisher, Joseph Ferman (father of Edward Ferman), declared that he wanted well-told stories of action and adventure; the resulting fiction contained more sex and violence than was usual for the science fiction (SF) genre in the late 1950s, and SF historian Mike Ashley has suggested that the magazine was ahead of its time.