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  • BEYOND THE BARRIERS OF SPACE AND TIME edited by Judith Merril

    This time around, we have an SF anthology. This one is an oldie, from 1955, and is compiled and edited by Judith Merril, another of my favourite anthologists. This is the first Judith Merril anthology that I’ve featured on this blog, and most certainly won’t be the last. TITLE: BEYOND THE BARRIERS OF SPACE AND…

  • STORIES FOR TOMORROW (1954) edited by William Sloane

    [I]\’ve got an interesting anthology in front of me at the moment. Actually, I\’ve got two different editions of it. Firstly an original US 1st Edition hardback, which I bought from a dealer on Amazon. This is an ex-library copy, and came without a dustjacket, otherwise the book itself is in excellent condition. The other…

  • 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…

  • POSSIBLE WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION edited by Groff Conklin

    [T]his is an interesting anthology, edited by one of the great classic SF anthologists, and another of my favourites, Groff Conklin. TITLE: POSSIBLE WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION EDITED BY: Groff Conklin CATEGORY: Anthology SUB-CATEGORY: Short Fiction FORMAT: Hardback, 256 pages PUBLISHER: Grayson & Grayson, Ltd, London, 1952. CONTENTS: Introduction by Groff Conklin PART ONE: THE…

  • Remembering Frederik Pohl (1919-2013)

    Back in June, this blog marked the first anniversary of the sad and untimely death of one of my favourite SF authors, Iain M. Banks, who we lost to cancer last year at the age of only 59. This month marks the first anniversary of the death of yet another of my favourite SF authors,…

  • Remembering Frederik Pohl (1919-2013)

    Back in June, this blog marked the first anniversary of the sad and untimely death of one of my favourite SF authors, Iain M. Banks, who we lost to cancer last year at the age of only 59. This month marks the first anniversary of the death of yet another of my favourite SF authors,…

  • SCIENCE FICTION edited by S. H. Burton

    TITLE: SCIENCE FICTION EDITED BY: S. H. Burton CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology FORMAT: Hardback, 245 pages PUBLISHER: Longman, The Heritage of Literature Series, London, 1967. CONTENTS: Introduction by S. H. Burton \”Requiem\” by Robert A. Heinlein (Astounding Science Fiction, January 1940) \”A Present from Joe\” by Eric Frank Russell (Astounding Science Fiction, February 1949)…

  • Frederik Pohl (1919-2013)

    Back in June of this year, I made a blog posting about the tragically sad and untimely passing of one of my favourite SF authors, Iain M. Banks, who we lost to cancer at the far, far too young age of 59. He was merely the latest in a long line of all-too frequent announcements…