Here's a couple more info about the magazine, and the 1st issue.
It was published monthly in the form of anthology, containing short stories, novels, poems, articles, pictures (photos, drawings, paintings, as illustrations or standalone), caricatures, comics... The contents were gathered into a mix of selection or thematic, on 100+ pages.
In it's prime it was among the largest titles, sold in over 90 000 copies, in comparison similar American magazines (such as picrel) could surpass it only by a couple tens of thousands more. And if we take into consideration that Hungary had a 10 mil. population, while the US had 200 mil, we can conclude the Hungarian readers were very much science-fiction and technology oriented.
In the first issue contains translations of W. Hilton Young, Gérard Diffloth, Isaac Asimov, Andrei Dmitruk, D.A. Bilenkin, Robert Sheckley, J. Kagarlickij, Edward Lucie-Smith, Charles Dobzynski.
In 1974 it got the title of the Best European Science Siction Magazine in Grenoble at the Eurocon.

Okay, found something curious.
The subtitle for the image says:
a. Depiction of a rocket leaving for Mars in the 19th century
b. Golden cone from the 13th century BC (Nurnberg National Museum); according to scientists it's a religious object. But according to every kid of our time, it looks similar to the Apollo rocket at the launch pad.

So tried to identify these, I had easier time with the second one, it really is/was in Nuremberg, they say it's a golden hat of a sun priest (scroll down bout the half):
https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_a/advanced/ta_1_1l.html
Others exist:
https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/mystery-four-golden-hats-bronze-age-002630

But illustration a is a harder nut to crack, "19th century mars rocket" doesn't give really good results. Ofc I associated to Verne's Lunar visitors, but their craft was a giant artillery shell, shot from a gun. However I came accross this article:
https://pioneersofflight.si.edu/content/tsiolkovsky-spacecraft-model
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was one of the fathers of space travel, or travel to space, a Russian rocket scientist, who was born in the 19th century, and died as a Soviet comrade, so would be kinda appropriate for a Hungarian publication in the 70's to take a look at his work.
As far as I can tell right now, he hadn't left any depictions of his vision, but written description he did. Pic #3 is a model for an 1936 Soviet movie, inspired by him. Very notable detail is the division of the body of this rocket into three compartments - observable in both image.
So maybe I'm on the right track here. The article in Galaktika issue #1, where this illustration comes from, doesn't give any help, it's just "Introduction to science fiction literature", no palpable there.

I was looking for Boros-Szikszai (Bo-Szi in future reference) works, I'm stuck for now, but I came across something else. I might dump the whole thing.

I forgot this. Tsiolkovsky's design.

Let's move on to the 2nd issue, won't mention everything, just a couple of flashes from here and there.
Starts with a lots of Bradbury and about Bradbury, but then it balances out with others. Eventually it's mostly about aliens, first contact and such.
Two articles about life outside Earth, and one about Eurocon 1. But let's spend some time over the two.
The tone is rational. No ancient aliens or Däniken, although they seem to recognize their existence and their place. But the articles is of the view of science and sci-fi literature, and their relation, their contradiction, and yet similarity. They wish to be educational, philosophical and entertaining, no blatant political manipulation. Little materialism, and maybe the wind of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
And what's the answer, is there life somewhere else in the universe? Of course. It's not just probable, but inevitable.
This issue a bit more meaty in the illustration department, but most I can't make a worthwhile screenshot. But even a comic strip got a place in there (wake at down inthe forest, by Frank Frazetta, from Nueve Dimension Spanish SF-magazine, 1971).

Bernd can post stuff here, other mags, sci-fi, fantasy, pics, vids, maps, artwork from games (genre appropriate), space exploration, etc.

>>36942
>Bernd can post stuff here, other mags, sci-fi, fantasy, pics, vids, maps, artwork from games (genre appropriate), space exploration, etc.

Some artwork from old children book about Moon that I've read when I was kid (actually, it was my father's book that he also read when he was kid). Interesting that there were two prints, in 1965 and 1974, and version of 65 (that I had) included some scheme of perspective Apollo mission. Version of 1974 had much more realistic drawings without 60's sci-fi feel (it would be strange to draw some abstract things after 1969), so it is less interesting.

Sadly, I've had no paper book available now, and internet has only 1974 version in large resolution, but there few small images from 1965.

>>36989

Forgot to mention that this was mostly an educational book, first part about history of Moon and it's exploration, second one about future landing, colonization and even perspective of terraforming.

Let's take a look at some tidbits from issue #3.
The illustrations are Verne heavy, despite there's no Verne among the texts. They included a note at the end, these pictures are the original woodcuts (well, the prints) from the books of the French author.

Featured serious topic (I mean not fiction) is about computers and their future. I think all of us has some level of interest in this. So here's some noteworthy points and info they share.
The human brain needs about 25 watt of power to work, the ENIAC needed 150, however "the brain doesn't speak the language of mathematics" (as John Neumann said).
At that time they used 3rd gen computers (over 100 000 pieces all over the world!) and the 4th were on their way.
The author talks about miniaturization, how the following generations of computers got smaller and smaller in about 1:10 ratio. He speculates, that the computers of the future will be even smaller, and the size of building blocks will arrive to the size of neurons.
The size will lower and the necessary power will too. But the tasks we want to use computers for need faster and faster machines - they were capable of doing hundreds of thousands of operations per second, some in labs 1-2 millions and engineers planned machines capable of doing billions - which demands higher power consumption. This will also need more effective cooling, maybe even water cooling, what they thought to be buried with 1st gen computers.

There was also an experiment with a machine which was actually a system of many machines (64) joined together. So despite the miniaturization, size may grow, and with that energy consumption too.
The growing number of parts means that more parts can fail. In a human brain redundancy is so large, that a death of a cell is not noticeable. But in a human constructed machine the failure has to be noticeable so they can change the part, fix the machine. A great challenge is that how can be constructed a reliably working machine out of unreliable parts?
A second problem they faced back then, is the overcomplication. They had to avoid creating one that too complex to use. So ease of use is one of the points they try to plan along.
For the next 20-25 years the road is paved - says the article written in 1972 - and back then in laboratories those computers or at least their plans which we were going to use in the '90s had already existed, although it's acknowledged that unexpected discoveries might change things.
AI! Right after the birth of computers the guesswork started if we could make a machine think. Enthusiasm was big. Bunch of stuff were taught to computers, from playing chess to translating languages, but these weren't thinking, just executing algorithms. This set back the expectations, they realized, while the brain doesn't speak mathematics, computers only speak that. There were happy accidents, when they tried to translate they realized linguists don't know their languages deep enough. Then computational linguistics was born (the irony: I think that's the proper translation, the text says mathematical linguistics). They realized the key question isn't if the machine thinks, but how the human brain thinks, and the steps can be programmed for machines to follow.
The author says, the use of computers was decided by the realistic needs of the societies, and the future will remain the same. Exceptions will exist, solving theoretical problems, or smaller scale projects of those who dare to dream big, but the use on large scale will be the chief deciding factor. Computers will take off the load from humans, physical or intellectual routine work will be relegated to them, and the man will use his brain what computers cannot do: thinking. We can only wish.

Pages from The Essential Atlas which presents Star Wars lore in a more KC tier direction.
>>36927
That's trippy, what's the third about?

>>37076
>Computers will take off the load from humans, physical or intellectual routine work will be relegated to them, and the man will use his brain what computers cannot do: thinking.
That's correct, a computer can chew any data through a statistical model, but it is only productive if its user knows which model to use, and setting that aside, how to interpret the result.

>>37092
What's bby and aby?
Also:
>Bogden
Kek.
>what's the third about?
Not sure. It's Tolkien's work, so probably some elvish stuff.

One day I really should look into this AI stuff. Last time I heard someone serious' opinion (who actually studied this on uni, and this wasn't posted on an imageboard) the thing was: "we mostly know what it won't be, but not really how it will be".
Right now this self teaching algorithms are nice, machine learning and neural networks and such, sure could be used to something well, there's always more porn to make, we'll we step over this? Again, we still living from the heritage of the 70s, everything we do, at least conceptually is the product of those times, nothing new, just more polished. I doubt we even have the time to fart around, civilizations always fall, it is coming for sure, and every sign says we are on crash course.

>>37094
BY = Battle of Yavin i.e. Star Wars (1977). The timeline goes many thousand years before but only over a century after.

>>37096
Ah. Thanks.

Illustrations are breddy gud, a selection from Western, chiefly American works. They list Virgil Finlay, Dold, Paul, Wesso, Morey, Alejandro, Georges Spiro, Lemy, Hannes Bok among their creators.
A very concise history of American sci-fi illustration is given. In the beginning scantly dressed women are protected by astronauts against monsters big as a house. Then in the '40s the front pages of magazines were decorated with scientifically plausible images, and got pinned onto the walls of labs and observatories. Pop-art left it's impression on them in the '60s, then the '70s discovered Ernst, Dali, Magritte, Labisse, Bosch, Goya, Arcimboldo... By that time the classic sci-fi magazines were real treasures, subjects of collectors, finishing the cycle.

Couple of caricatures were also published in #4.

Issue No. 5 A little bit of robots in my life, little bit of automatons by my side. Basically this number is about those. The illustrations, the stories, articles, and even the caricatures.

Let's see what we have in here.
for #1 cover as always
#2 drawing puppet by Jaquet Droz, from 1774, and a couple of drawings of it, Cupid driving his cart, and Louis XV.
#3 M.F. Wiesendanger's writing gadget from 1946..., and prof. Arcadius, made by Durand and Decamps, exhibited in 1937, Paris
#4 A wisdom of Arcadius: "Among virtues tenacity deserves special attention"

#5 Another automaton of Decamps (I believe they made a type), the Acrobat
#6 The Hypnotist, automaton toy from 1850s
#7 An automaton of Kempelen Farkas, the chess playing Turk.
#8 Which turned out to be a hoax, and it is believed it was operated by a man hiding inside.

#9 Music box, a pianist from the age of Louis XVI.
#10 Duck of Vaucanson, ate, jumped, and moved it's wings. Then shat on your persian carpet.
#11 Automata from the cathedral in Strassbourg
#12 The guilded rooster made for the first astronomical clock in there.

#13 The whole day is busy..., jump her, run there..., now we are almost just like humans!
#14 The intellect we serve. I'm not sure about my translation. Could be "the spirit we serve".
#15 Remote controlled robot of Augustus Huber, the Sabor IV. It's main job was traffic direction. At that time certain engineers already planned robot soldiers.
#16 TELEVOX, the design and build of a certain engineer from Pittsburgh, called Wensley. It spoke and did stuff. From the early 1930s.

I wanted to go into an article about the future of the robots, how they imagined. Today I did not have the time. Tomorrow will be busy too, but maybe in the late evening, like today.

I found some (a lot of) info on Televox.
http://cyberneticzoo.com/robots/1927-televox-wensley-american/
Basically it was a voice activated remote control system. Could Open Sesame! or switch lights and stuff. And was called Herbert. He even had a gf. What's Bernd's excuse?
The blog also features an article from 1927, as screenshots and in written from. Tried to resize the screenshots to larger and give a little contrast to make it more readable.

The blog itself might be noteworthy.
>a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Probably with many curiosities.

Some more Tolkien.

Stepping over issue #6 and #7 for the aformentioned reason. Here is #8.
It's in .mobi with fixed size images. I'm trying to enlarge them a bit.
This number also features an "About the images" article. It says this volume is about how science and imagination finds each other. What we can't see, we use devices to observe. But we cannot observe even with devices, like the inside of atoms, far away planets in other star systems, the future or the past... we use our imagination. We can travel time and space far and wide.
Artist and artists diverge from reality in different amount. But in the field of sci-fi, those they depict - space travel or space stations - wasn't made up by writers, but scientists. And as time goes on, as we know more about the subject, reality and dream gets closer and closer - a spaceship from the 20s falls very far from the reality of today than what they imagined in the 50s and 60s (don't forget, this magazine is from the early 70s).

Pic #5 - Meeting in the space. By Andrey Sokolov
Pic #6 - New York - Berlin rocket propelled flight. Plan by Max Valler
Pic #7 - Two images in one. Above: the explorer vehicle of the Jupiter, by 1972 they planned the launch om the US. Below: another American plan, Moonbase.
Pic #8 - Solar smelters in the year 2000.

Pic #9 - Seismic test on the Moon how they imagined it in 1958.
Pic #10 - Plan of Earth's first space station, planned by Wernher von Braun in 1962
Pic #11 - Cargoship, drawin in the early '60s
Pic #12 - Colonization of the Moon, 1962

Pic #13 - Power plant gathering atmospheric electricity by balloons.
Pic #14 - Sub-nautical residency planned to the year 2000. Reminds me of something from a Bosch paintings.
Pic #15 - Moonbus crossing a sea of sand.
Pic #16 - A futurologist book's prophecy form 1927: television broadcast in the cities of the future.

Am gonna post the rest.
Maybe I'll browse the magazines first in the future, and just pick a couple of things, from all over the place.

Pic #17 - Soviet space station
Pic #18 - Artificial brain.
Pic #19 - Shipping cargo and passenger to the Moon. There's a moonbase somewhere in the background.
Pic #20 - Another Soviet space station model, from 1959.

Pic #21 - Moonscape. By Luděk Pešek
Pic #22 - Saturn from Titan. By Luděk Pešek. Titan always reminds me of Hardwar, and get a little hankering to install it somehow. I'm not sure if it's possible with Wine. But maybe on virtual machine...
Pic #23 - Airport on the ocean. Isn't that a seaport?
Pic #24 - Mars from Deimos.