Pulp Science Fiction of the 1950s - An Anthology - Vol. I - Martians!
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The reprint also includes an introduction by Shanks. Danse Macabre Everest House, Horror author King analyses horror, from the written word to radio, film and television. Along the way, he discusses the impact of a variety of influences, including Weird Tales, John W.
Campbell, Clark Ashton Smith and other pulp sources. Pulp veteran Moskowitz covers the development of science fiction from the weeklies at the turn of the century through the pulp era and into the post-World War II period. Nicely reprinted, color covers from Astounding , Amazing Stories and other pulps illustrate the chapter.
Moskowitz, Sam , ed. Science Fiction by Gaslight: Under the Moons of Mars: Prozini, Bill , ed. A Checklist Gale Research Co. Those Macabre Pulps Adventure House, Science Fiction of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History Collectors Press The coffee-table book explores science fiction through art, from dime novels to paperback covers to movie posters.
The first third of the book displays quite a few pulp covers. The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. Inspirations for The Shadow and Doc Savage are covered, as well as how they inspired other pulps. Horror of the 20th Century: An Ilustrated History Collectors Press, Weinberg, Robert; with E. Net Repaired a number of broken links. Oh, and made the logo reappear. Ask the Pulp Gumshoe Looking for something pulp-related on the web?
The Pulp Gumshoe is here to help. There was also no shortage of digests that continued the pulp tradition of hastily written adventure stories set on other planets. Other Worlds and Imaginative Tales had no literary pretensions. The major pulp writers, such as Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke, continued to write for the digests, and a new generation of writers, such as Algis Budrys and Walter M. Most digest magazines began in the s, in the years between the film Destination Moon , the first major science fiction film in a decade, and the launching of Sputnik , which sparked a new interest in space travel as a real possibility.
Most survived only a few issues. By , in the United States, there were only six sf digests on newsstands, in there were seven, in there were five, in only four and in only three. The first British science fiction magazine was Tales of Wonder , pulp size, —, 16 issues, unless you count Scoops , a tabloid boys' paper that published 20 weekly issues in It was followed by two magazines, both named Fantasy , one pulp size publishing three issues in —, the other digest size, publishing three issues in — The most important British sf magazine, New Worlds , published three pulp size issues in —, before changing to digest size.
With these exceptions, the pulp phenomenon, like the comic book, was largely a US format. By , the only surviving major British science fiction magazine is Interzone , published in "magazine" format, although small press titles such as PostScripts and Polluto are available. During recent decades, the circulation of all digest science fiction magazines has steadily decreased.
New formats were attempted, most notably the slick-paper stapled magazine format, the paperback format and the webzine. There are also various semi-professional magazines which persist on sales of a few thousand copies but often publish important fiction. As the circulation of the traditional US science fiction magazines has declined, new magazines have sprung up online from international small-press publishers.
An editor on the staff of Science Fiction World , China's longest-running science fiction magazine, claimed in that, with "a circulation of , copies per issue," it was "the World's most-read SF periodical," [3] although subsequent news suggests that circulation dropped precipitously after the firing of its chief editor in and the departure of other editors. Several sources give updates on the state of science fiction magazines. Gardner Dozois presents a summary of the state of magazines in the introduction to the annual The Year's Best Science Fiction volume. Locus lists the circulation and discusses the status of pro and semi-pro SF magazines in their February year-in-review issue, and runs periodic summaries of non-US science fiction.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. March Learn how and when to remove this template message. List of alternate history fiction Retrofuturism Sidewise Award Writers. Science fiction and fantasy pulp magazines. In John Clute and Peter Nicholls. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Updated ed. Retrieved January 16, Ramsey Campbell and Harry Harrison ; articles on film were also included.
AW grew from the fanzine Alien 16 issues, , which had also published stories and film articles.
Its publishers lacked the distribution strength to make it work as a professional magazine. Comics Magazines Novels Publishers Short stories. Film history Films India. Part of the expedition is massacred — and it appears as though some of the frozen creatures have come back to life! The Elder Things battled both the Star-spawn of Cthulhu and the Mi-go; and as the Shogvoths gained independence, their civilization began to decline. Hello, Planet of the Apes. The light-hearted first section of the book, which skewers European attitudes towards non-white races, recounts the discovery of an intelligent but child-like breed of large newts, on a small island near Sumatra… and their enslavement and exploitation in the service of pearl farming and other underwater enterprises.
The Newts develop speech, and absorb aspects of human culture. The final section of War with the Newts is darker in tone: It recounts the outbreak of war between the Newts and humans. The final chapter is a metafictional exercise in which the Author and the Writer discuss what will happen next: It seems that an Innsmouth merchant, Obed Marsh, had discovered the creatures while on a voyage in the West Indies.
Which is why this is a science fiction horror story, not merely fantasy: Is he just going mad?
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Lovecraft based the town of Innsmouth on his impressions of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Arkham, of course, is based on Salem. He explores alien civilizations on other worlds — and his consciousness merges with that of beings from these worlds, who then join him on his journey around the universe. Like humankind, we discover, alien species evolve in a Darwinian manner, and possess a capacity to value, to be aware, and to be creative.
In addition to many imaginative descriptions of species, we encounter far-out technological marvels and sci-fi concepts: At last, invested with cosmic consciousness, our narrator returns to Earth at the place and time he left. Ransom, a Cambridge professor of philology, prevents physicist Dr. When he regains consciousness, Ransom finds himself in a spacecraft en route to Malacandra Mars. Ransom escapes, explores the planet, and is befriended by a tribe of hrossa. Pursued by Weston, who aims to help humankind colonize the universe exploiting its resources, and Devine, who is just trying to get rich, Ransom seeks out Oyarsa, a spirit-like creature who rules Malacandra.
Lewis claimed that the Radium Age sci-fi novel Arcturus , by David Lindsay , gave him the idea of using planets less as places than as spiritual contexts.
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A Magneto-like mutant, that is to say, whose ultimate goal is to eradicate all of humankind…. Includes an early conjuring-up of computers: Because he knows that this conflict would usher in the Dark Ages, Padway attempts to alter the course of history. There is some Robinsonade action, at first, as Padway begins distilling brandy, expanding his business, and getting involved in politics.
He teaches his clerks Arabic numerals and double entry bookkeeping; he develops a printing press, issues newspapers, and builds a long-distance semaphore telegraph system. Oh, and he emancipates the Italian serfs! A shorter version was first published in Unknown December Lest Darkness Fall is considered one of the most influential early alternate-history yarns.
In the opening pages of The Shooting Star , things are literally heating up: It turns out that the heat is caused by the approach of a meteorite on a collision course with Earth. Luckily, the experts have miscalculated.
And once they find it, what weird properties will its alien metal reveal? Serialized during the German occupation of Belgium; this, and the anti-Semitic portrayal of the villainous financier Bohlwinkel, have made The Shooting Star a controversial installment in the Tintin series. When I published a list of Science Fiction Adventures at io9. I did not include a single Isaac Asimov title; and readers were outraged.
That said, I like it! Originally a series of stories published in Astounding Magazine between May and January When a human spaceship meets an alien one — both are on exploratory missions, far from their respective homes — neither group knows how to react. The aliens are humanoid bipeds who communicate via microwaves emitted from an organ in their heads; so the first problem to be overcome is one of awkwardly sending and receiving messages, then translating them. The two crews do begin to communicate, and discover that they have much in common; but both sides realize that they may have to try to destroy one another.
Neither can leave, that is, without ensuring that the other crew cannot track them to their home planet. Published by the pulp magazine Astounding , First Contact is now considered one of the most important Golden Age science-fiction stories, the template for innumerable subsequent first-contact stories. But, because he despises Daneri, he gaslights him: The first astronauts to land on Mars are killed by the jealous husband of Ylla, a Martian woman whose telepathic abilities allow her to predict their arrival.
The second expedition discovers that Martians regard them as insane hallucinations. A member of the fourth expedition realizes how wonderful Martian civilization is, and turns against his fellow Earthlings. Back on Earth, a hardware store owner attempts to prevent an African American man who owes him money from emigrating to Mars. A settler opens a hot dog stand, even as a devastating atomic war breaks out back on Earth.
The episodes are thrilling and chilling, funny and sad, and always poetic and powerful. Alise resorts to drastic measures to prevent Partre from publishing anything else. Tragedy strikes when Chloe develops a water lily in her lung; in the face of her impending death, how will Colin choose to live? Our narrator, the psychologist Dr. Castle, a philosopher colleague, and others to visit Walden Two, an experimental community — founded in the s by T. Over four days, the visitors marvel at a community where nobody works more than four hours per day; children are raised by the collective and incentivized, through a system of rewards and punishments, to behave well ; advanced technology has been developed to facilitate domestic chores; and everybody gets along.
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The author was an esteemed behavioral psychologist at Harvard. Oceania is perpetually at war with one of the other two superstates.
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Winston and Julia are apprehended by the Thought Police: Will their love, idealism, and critical thinking survive, or will they crack? It has given us such terms as Big Brother , doublethink , and thoughtcrime ; and a real-life or fictional political order characterized by official deception is often described as Orwellian. Ish Williams, a student of ecology and geology, survives a plague that wipes out most of America.
Making his way home first to Berkeley, Calif. Their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren are more interested in hunting than learning how to read, much less study science or medicine; the men and women who built the infrastructure which the younger members of the tribe view as marvels are regarded as semi-mythological beings. The title is from Ecclesiastes 1: Winton, you see, is a science fiction editor in the John Campbell mold — that is, he despises Space Opera, which he considers corny.
A YA adventure set on Mars. Aided by the Martians, the colonists rebel against the Corporation and proclaim their independence.
New formats were attempted, most notably the slick-paper stapled magazine format, the paperback format and the webzine. John Varley , for example, reported that he was still owed money for his stories five years after they appeared. So they head out, on a long journey, to find it. Who are the incorporeal Wanderers haunting the town? They battle Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants including Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver ; giant robots programmed to destroy mutants; and Juggernaut.
But what will become of Willis? They inhabit two planes of existence simultaneously; revere freedom; and possess terrible powers. Carse becomes a galley slave, then leads a mutiny. Arriving at the realm of the Sea-Kings, Carse discovers that his mind has been possessed by Rhiannon himself, who seeks atonement for his ancient crimes. For those who enjoy science fantasy, this is entertaining stuff complete with a reluctant villainess: Ywain, the fierce warrior princess-heir of Sark, who sorry longs to be dominated by the manly Carse.
Navigating a London gone haywire, Masen rescues Josella Playton, a wealthy novelist, from a blind man who has forced her to serve as his guide… and the two of them plan to join a colony of the sighted outside London. Instead, they are kidnapped by a group that chains sighted men and women to groups of the blind, and forces them to scavenge for food and supplies. Masen eventually escapes and helps establish a self-sufficient colony in Sussex… which, unfortunately, is menaced not only by hordes of triffids but by a militarized rival colony!
Even as the Old Man directs government efforts to combat the invasion of these body-snatchers, Sam is puppetized by a slug! Originally serialized in Galaxy September, October, November The disarmament movement has split into two factions: During WWIII, while the American male workforce was fighting overseas, out of necessity American engineers made tremendous strides in automating most manual labor.
Today in the near future , most Americans are either busy and fulfilled engineers and managers, on the one hand, or discontented idlers, on the other. An anthropologist and Episcopalian minister, Reverend Lasher, persuades Paul that life without meaningful work is boring and inhuman; Paul begins to fantasize about quitting his job and living off the grid. What will transpire when the revolution begins?
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So are the detectives Thomson and Thompson, and a spy working for a foreign power! The rocket-landing artwork is superb. Someone will have to die, if the others are to survive. A thrilling, semi-serious, semi-humorous sci-fi adventure. Jacobs, who had recently enjoyed success with a sci-fi comic, The Secret of the Swordfish. In the final section of the book, Lt. Barrows, a gifted engineer who worked for the US Air Force until he apparently went insane, discovers that he was a victim of the gestalt — who wanted to prevent him from discovering the secret of their antigrav device, not to mention their very existence.
Will Hip fight back against the mutants… or join them?
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A cartoonish but gripping police procedural. Winner of the first Hugo Award. His application was denied.