History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. I, 1926-1935, edited by Mike Ashley
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Overview: From the preface of this wonderful 1976 book that is part history lesson, part anthology: “Who is your favourite science fiction writer? Robert Heinlein? Arthur Clarke? John Wyndham? Isaac Asimov? Frank Herbert, Clifford Simak, Michael Moorcock … ??? Name any leading science fiction writer of today, and the likelihood is that he made his debut in a science fiction magazine.
In April 1976, science fiction magazines will be fifty years old, and what better way to commemorate this event than with a representative history of those fifty years? And the book you are holding will be part of an appraisal of those fifty amazing years.
Fortunately for science fiction historians, science fiction magazine history falls into certain distinct periods. In April 1926 Hugo Gernsback issued the first all-science fiction magazine AMAZING STORIES.
In March 1936 the last issue of Gernsback’s WONDER STORIES appeared and with that Gernsback departed from science fiction magazine publishing (for a while). Consequently these first ten years are referred to as ‘the Gernsback era’, and it is that era this book covers.
I have endeavoured to give a clear appraisal of the birth and infancy of the magazines in the introduction that follows, and then I have chosen one story from each of the ten years from 1926 to 1935 that is representative of that year. Consequently you might not necessarily find the big names of science action here, but you will find forgotten science fiction authors whose memory time has obliterated, and yet who were instrumental in the growth of the genre.”
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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