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Tag: John W. Campbell Jr

  • THE MEN AND THE MIRROR (1973) by Ross Rocklynne

    This time out, we have a single author collection of short fiction by SF Pulps stalwart, Ross Rocklynne (real name Ross Louis Rocklin, February 21, 1913 – October 29, 1988). Rocklynne was very active in the SF magazines from the early-1930s up until the mid-1950s, when he disappeared off the scene for more than a…

  • 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all of John W. Campbell, Jr\’s short fiction written under his \”Don A. Stuart\” pseudonym, plus a couple of previously unpublished (in book form) articles also written by Campbell under the…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all of John W. Campbell, Jr\’s short fiction written under his \”Don A. Stuart\” pseudonym, plus a couple of previously unpublished (in book form) articles also written by Campbell under the…

  • 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,…

  • SCIENCE FICTION OF THE THIRTIES edited by Damon Knight

    TITLE: SCIENCE FICTION OF THE THIRTIES EDITED BY: Damon Knight CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHER: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis/New York, 1975 FORMAT: Hardback, 1st Edition, 464 pages CONTENTS: Foreword by Damon Knight \”Out Around Rigel\” by Robert H. Wilson (1931) \”The Fifth-Dimension Catapult\” by Murray Leinster (1931) \”Into the Meteorite Orbit\” by Frank…

  • 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…