It's July, 1939, and you buy the newest issue of Astounding Stories straight from the newsstands. In it you find stories from two never-before-published authors, A.E. van Vogt and Issac Asimov. You don't realize it, but the golden age of science fiction just began.
Lasting only until 1955, the short years of the golden age era exerted a lasting influence upon science fiction. It established the careers of three of the most popular science fiction writers the big three Issac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein. And it all began with the man who discovered them.
This book is a brief introduction to the genre. It provides the history of science fiction's earliest roots, and shows the culture that influenced the work.
More than an introduction, however, it is also an anthology of the work; not only do you get to read the history behind the work--you actually get to read the work.
Dozens of works are included in this large collection; authors and works include:
Tom Godwin:
And Devious the Line of Duty
Cry from a Far Planet
The Nothing Equation
Space Prison
Murray Leinster
The Aliens
The Ambulance Made Two Trips
Fifth-Dimension Tube:
A Sequel to "The Fifth-Dimension Catapult"
The Leader
Long Ago, Far Away
The Machine That Saved the World
Morale
Operation: Outer Space
Operation Terror
The Pirates of Ersatz
Saint Patrick
Space Platform
Space Tug
This World Is Taboo
The Wailing Asteroid
H. Beam Piper:
The Answer
The Cosmic Computer
Crossroads of Destiny
Day of the Moron
Dearest
The Edge of the Knife
Flight from Tomorrow
Four-Day Planet
Genesis
Graveyard of Dreams
He Walked Around the Horses
The Keeper
Last Enemy
Little Fuzzy
The Mercenaries
Ministry of Disturbance
Murder in the Gunroom
Naudsonce
Null-ABC
Oomphel in the Sky
Omnilingual
Operation R.S.V.P.
Patrol
Police Operation
Rebel Raider
The Return
A Slave is a Slave
Space Viking
Temple Trouble
Time and Time Again
Time Crime
Ullr Uprising
This work is part of a large collection titled "The History of Science Fiction."
Lasting only until 1955, the short years of the golden age era exerted a lasting influence upon science fiction. It established the careers of three of the most popular science fiction writers the big three Issac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein. And it all began with the man who discovered them.
This book is a brief introduction to the genre. It provides the history of science fiction's earliest roots, and shows the culture that influenced the work.
More than an introduction, however, it is also an anthology of the work; not only do you get to read the history behind the work--you actually get to read the work.
Dozens of works are included in this large collection; authors and works include:
Tom Godwin:
And Devious the Line of Duty
Cry from a Far Planet
The Nothing Equation
Space Prison
Murray Leinster
The Aliens
The Ambulance Made Two Trips
Fifth-Dimension Tube:
A Sequel to "The Fifth-Dimension Catapult"
The Leader
Long Ago, Far Away
The Machine That Saved the World
Morale
Operation: Outer Space
Operation Terror
The Pirates of Ersatz
Saint Patrick
Space Platform
Space Tug
This World Is Taboo
The Wailing Asteroid
H. Beam Piper:
The Answer
The Cosmic Computer
Crossroads of Destiny
Day of the Moron
Dearest
The Edge of the Knife
Flight from Tomorrow
Four-Day Planet
Genesis
Graveyard of Dreams
He Walked Around the Horses
The Keeper
Last Enemy
Little Fuzzy
The Mercenaries
Ministry of Disturbance
Murder in the Gunroom
Naudsonce
Null-ABC
Oomphel in the Sky
Omnilingual
Operation R.S.V.P.
Patrol
Police Operation
Rebel Raider
The Return
A Slave is a Slave
Space Viking
Temple Trouble
Time and Time Again
Time Crime
Ullr Uprising
This work is part of a large collection titled "The History of Science Fiction."
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