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Tag: Henry Kuttner

  • A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories (2003)

    [T]his time out, I\’m taking a brief look at one of the high-quality NESFA Press collections of SF author short fiction. This one contains all of John W. Campbell, Jr\’s short fiction written under his \”Don A. Stuart\” pseudonym, plus a couple of previously unpublished (in book form) articles also written by Campbell under the…

  • A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories (2003)

    This time out, I\’m taking a brief look at one of the high-quality NESFA Press collections of SF author short fiction. This one contains all of John W. Campbell, Jr\’s short fiction written under his \”Don A. Stuart\” pseudonym, plus a couple of previously unpublished (in book form) articles also written by Campbell under the…

  • CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION – THE FIRST GOLDEN AGE edited by Terry Carr

    [H]ere is yet another SF anthology edited by one of my favourite SF anthologists, Terry Carr. It\’s a nice, beefy one this time, at 445 pages, with twelve stories, plus an introduction by Carr. I know most people usually dive on into the stories first, but take may advice, and do NOT skip the Introduction.…

  • THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF LUCKY STARR by Paul French (Isaac Asimov)

    [S]everal posts ago, I listed some of the SF novels that I\’d picked up recently, among them two of Isaac Asimov\’s Lucky Starr juvies that he wrote back in the 1950\’s under his Paul French pseudonym. Well, that set me to searching for the only single-volume omnibus of all six Lucky Starr novels, which I…

  • THE GREAT SF STORIES VOL. 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

    TITLE: ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE GREAT SF STORIES VOL. 1 (1939) EDITED BY: Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg CATEGORY: Anthology SUB-CATEGORY: Short Fiction FORMAT: Paperback, 432 pages PUBLISHER: DAW Books, New York, 1st Printing, March 1979. Those are the various general details, and here\’s a listing of the contents: Introduction by Isaac Asimov \”I,…

  • PLANETS OF WONDER edited by Terry Carr

    TITLE: PLANETS OF WONDER – A TREASURY OF SPACE OPERA EDITED BY: Terry Carr CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, 1976 FORMAT: Hardback, 1st Edition, 189 pages, ISBN: 0-8407-6526-6 CONTENTS: Introduction by Terry Carr \”Dust of Gods\” by C. L. Moore (Weird Tales, August 1934) \”We Guard the Black Planet!\”…

  • Reading Science Fiction

    Reading Science Fiction literature has always been one of my main interests in life, and I\’ve been reading \”proper\” science fiction since I first signed out H.G. Wells\’ The Time Machine from the local library at the tender age of about eight or nine years old (circa 1969-1970). I usually prefer older (classic) SF, pre-\”New…

  • It’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Two)

    The Golden Years – Geek Nirvana During the Seventies [T]he start of our teenage years is the sweet spot for the vast majority of us, particularly geeks, the beginning of what is probably the most fondly remembered period of our lives. It\’s long enough ago that most of our memories are fond, rosy ones, but…

  • It’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Two)

    The Golden Years – Geek Nirvana During the Seventies The start of our teenage years is the sweet spot for the vast majority of us, particularly geeks, the beginning of what is probably the most fondly remembered period of our lives. It\’s long enough ago that most of our memories are fond, rosy ones, but…