Orbit Science Fiction. (Five Issues, All Published) Orbit Science Fiction. [Fall] 1953 - November/December 1954. (Volume 1, Numbers 1-5) Jules Saltman, (Editor) Magazine,Science Fiction

Small octavo, five issues. Digest magazine. Another short lived magazine of the 1950s boomlet. A magazine that published some quality fiction. Though Saltman was the editor he knew little about science fiction and he used Donald A. Wollheim to acquire stories, acting as a "literary editor." Author's include August Derleth, Mack Reynolds, Charles Beaumont, John Christopher, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Michael Shaara, Jack Vance and others. Derleth had a Tex Harrigan story in all five issues. The Philip K. Dick story in issue three, "The Adjustment Team" is the basis for the film "The Adjustment Bureau" (2011), Dick also had stories in two other issues. Donald A. Wollheim's (as Martin Pearson) story in the issue one "Asteroid 745: Mauritia" is ".a rare combination of SF and the supernatural and is a genuine SF ghost story." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, p 452. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 451-454.