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The nine outstanding short novels in this collection of bestselling authors are as relevant today as when they first appeared during the l940's. These representative works by Theodore Sturgeon, Jack Williamson, Isaac Asimov, A.E. van Vogt, Ross Rocklynne, Lester del Rey, A. Bertam Chandler, T.L. Sherred and C.L. Moore are some of the best short science fiction novels of any time. $22.95 value.
The Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing, including authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. Their writing helped science fiction gain wide public attention, and left a lasting impression upon society. The same writers formed the mold for the next three decades of science fiction, and much of their writing remains as fresh today as it was then.
Ten of the finest short science fiction novels of the 1940s are collected in this outsized volume.
The Golden Age is Grand Space Opera, a large-scale SF adventure novel in the tradition of A. E. Van vogt and Roger Zelazny, with perhaps a bit of Cordwainer Smith enriching the style. It is an astounding story of super science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the excitements of SF's golden age writers. The Golden Age takes place 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Within the frame of a traditional tale-the one rebel who is unhappy in utopia-Wright spins an elaborate plot web filled with suspense and passion. Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion to celebrate the thousand-year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he meets first an old man who accuses him of being an impostor and then a being from Neptune who claims to be an old friend. The Neptunian tells him that essential parts of his memory were removed and stored by the very government that Phaethon believes to be wholly honorable. It shakes his faith. He is an exile from himself. And so Phaethon embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system--Jupiter is now a second sun, Mars and Venus terraformed, humanity immortal--among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre life forms that are partly both, to recover his memory, and to learn what crime he planned that warranted such preemptive punishment. His quest is to regain his true identity. The Golden Age is one of the major, ambitious SF novels of the year and the international launch of an important new writer in the genre. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
These fantastic tales are as fresh and relevant today as they were when they first appeared in the 1940s, the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Theodore Sturgeon’s “Killdozer!” details the liberation of a mutant energy force with intelligence and a will to destroy. “With Folded Hands,” by Jack Williamson, unfolds a terrifying vision of the future where humanoid mechanisms secure “happiness” for all human beings. In a corrupt empire to come, “The Weapons Shop” of A.E. van Vogt’s world may be the only source for legal and moral justice. Plus, there’s an early “Foundation” tale by Issac Asimov, and many other brilliant examples by C.L. Moore, Lester del Rey, and more.
John Wade grew up in the 1950s, a decade that has since been dubbed the 'golden age of science fiction'. It was a wonderful decade for science fiction, but not so great for young fans. With early television broadcasts being advertised for the first time as 'unsuitable for children' and the inescapable barrier of the 'X' certificate in the cinema barring anyone under the age of sixteen, the author had only the radio to fall back on - and that turned out to be more fertile for the budding SF fan than might otherwise have been thought. Which is probably why, as he grew older, rediscovering those old TV broadcasts and films that had been out of bounds when he was a kid took on a lure that soon became an obsession.For him, the super-accuracy and amazing technical quality of today's science fiction films pale into insignificance beside the radio, early TV and B-picture films about people who built rockets in their back gardens and flew them to lost planets, or tales of aliens who wanted to take over, if not our entire world, then at least our bodies. This book is a personal account of John Wade's fascination with the genre across all the entertainment media in which it appeared - the sort of stuff he revelled in as a young boy - and still enjoys today.
Compares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time.
* 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), First published in "Worlds of If" January 1962 * Dead End by Wallace Macfarlane (1918-1999), First published in "Galaxy Science Fiction" January 1952 * Spacemen Die at Home by Edward W. Ludwig (1920-1990), First published in Galaxy Science Fiction October 1951* A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), First published in Galaxy Science Fiction August 1951* Nice Girl With 5 Husbands by Fritz Leiber (1910-1992), First published in Galaxy Science Fiction April 1951* Transfer Point by Anthony Boucher (1911-1968), First published in Galaxy Science Fiction November 1950* Youth by Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), First published in Space Science Fiction May 1952* The Man Who Was Six by F. L. Wallace (1915-2004), First published in Galaxy Science Fiction September 1954* Inside Earth by Poul Anderson (1926-2001), First published in Galaxy Science Fiction April 1951* Second Variety by Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), First published in Space Science Fiction May 1953
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