OtherEric Posted July 9, 2020 Posted July 9, 2020 (edited) A thread for the longest continually running SF pulp/digest! I'll leave it to somebody else to create an Amazing Stories thread... Edited July 10, 2020 by OtherEric Surfing Alien and sagii 2
OtherEric Posted July 9, 2020 Author Posted July 9, 2020 Randall Dowling, Surfing Alien, sagii and 1 other 4
OtherEric Posted July 9, 2020 Author Posted July 9, 2020 Some bedsheet issues: Surfing Alien and jimjum12 2
Hap Hazard Posted July 10, 2020 Posted July 10, 2020 A few early Astoundings OtherEric, RedFury and waaaghboss 3
Hap Hazard Posted July 10, 2020 Posted July 10, 2020 A favorite BEM cover Sarg, RedFury, OtherEric and 1 other 4
Hap Hazard Posted July 10, 2020 Posted July 10, 2020 A Forry copy I picked up a few years ago on Ebay, seller never mentioned the address stamp. RedFury, OtherEric, Sarg and 1 other 4
RedFury Posted July 10, 2020 Posted July 10, 2020 I've had an accidental Forry book as well OtherEric 1
asimovpulps Posted July 10, 2020 Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) @OtherEric we have similar tastes! The Recruiting Station issue with the 3 Laws of Robotics is a tough find, that one took me a while...and my copy is pretty poor. Do you happen to have the Deadline issue (March 1944)? Cool backstory on that one. The H.P. Lovecraft issues are very cool as well. I have to admit I've never actually read Lovecraft, any suggestions for first stories to dive into? Few other pulps (digests + bedsheets technically) from the Foundation series: Edited July 10, 2020 by asimovpulps OtherEric 1
OtherEric Posted July 10, 2020 Author Posted July 10, 2020 1 minute ago, asimovpulps said: @OtherEric we have similar tastes! The Recruiting Station issue with the 3 Laws of Robotics is a tough find, that one took me a while...and my copy is pretty poor. Do you happen to have the Deadline issue (March 1944)? Cool backstory on that one. The H.P. Lovecraft issues are very cool as well. I have to admit I've never actually read Lovecraft, any suggestions for first stories to dive into? Few other pulps (digests technically) from the Foundation series: Well, the last one is actually a bedsheet... and one I badly need. I do not have the Deadline issue. It's high on my want list, but just in general I want to put together a complete run of the Campbell edited Astounding/ Analog run. With that said, it does stand out on my want list because of its historical significance. You could do far worse with Lovecraft than to start with The Shadow Out of Time, I think. I do need to insert my standard disclaimer that, while he's one of my favorite writers, I do fully recognize he's a problematic favorite. The Shadow Out of Time is my favorite of his stories, I remain very happy that that was the first Lovecraft story I got the original publication of. I'm sure others would have good suggestions on where to start with Lovecraft. The one I would warn you away from is Herbert West: Reanimator, which some people unfamiliar with his work track down because they like the movies. It's actually one of his worst written stories by general consensus.
asimovpulps Posted July 10, 2020 Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) On 7/10/2020 at 3:36 PM, OtherEric said: Well, the last one is actually a bedsheet... and one I badly need. I do not have the Deadline issue. It's high on my want list, but just in general I want to put together a complete run of the Campbell edited Astounding/ Analog run. With that said, it does stand out on my want list because of its historical significance. You could do far worse with Lovecraft than to start with The Shadow Out of Time, I think. I do need to insert my standard disclaimer that, while he's one of my favorite writers, I do fully recognize he's a problematic favorite. The Shadow Out of Time is my favorite of his stories, I remain very happy that that was the first Lovecraft story I got the original publication of. I'm sure others would have good suggestions on where to start with Lovecraft. The one I would warn you away from is Herbert West: Reanimator, which some people unfamiliar with his work track down because they like the movies. It's actually one of his worst written stories by general consensus. Ha yes you're right, I actually didn't realize I'd included that last image but glad I did (and corrected original post). I know of one or two of the June 1942 issues floating around depending on your price range (that issue seems to be generally over priced unfortunately...), and surprisingly a complete run of the Campbell edited Astounding issues for sale as well - feel free to shoot me a message and I can share links to both. Edited July 12, 2020 by asimovpulps OtherEric 1
Hap Hazard Posted July 12, 2020 Posted July 12, 2020 A few more early issues Pat Calhoun, OtherEric and Joshua33 3
RedFury Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 Astounding Stories, Feb 1934 Howard V. Brown cover Pat Calhoun, Joshua33, OtherEric and 1 other 4
Popular Post Scrooge Posted July 20, 2020 Popular Post Posted July 20, 2020 On 7/10/2020 at 6:21 PM, asimovpulps said: The Recruiting Station issue with the 3 Laws of Robotics is a tough find, that one took me a while.. Have no idea of significance I am ashamed to admit, I did not post mine since that issue had already been posted but what the heck - frozentundraguy, jimjum12, Joshua33 and 3 others 6
asimovpulps Posted July 20, 2020 Posted July 20, 2020 9 hours ago, Scrooge said: Have no idea of significance I am ashamed to admit, I did not post mine since that issue had already been posted but what the heck - Glad you did - that's a nice copy! Here's some info on the Three Laws of Robotics - it's the backbone of Isaac Asimov's I, Robot series and shows up in some other sci fi stories/media as well (apparently in Alien, which I didn't realize): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics. There's even a Zeroth law, though that was added later... First Law A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second Law A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Third Law A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law Scrooge 1
Popular Post Surfing Alien Posted August 17, 2020 Popular Post Posted August 17, 2020 Want to thank @OtherEric for bequeathing his undercopy of the October 1953 Astounding to me. It's posted above but it's so nice it's worth posting twice! Pat Calhoun, OtherEric, frozentundraguy and 4 others 7
Popular Post N e r V Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Posted August 18, 2020 jimjum12, Zolnerowich, Joshua33 and 4 others 6 1
Surfing Alien Posted August 21, 2020 Posted August 21, 2020 On 8/18/2020 at 7:57 PM, N e r V said: What's the story of the sketch, if you know? It's pretty cool!
N e r V Posted August 21, 2020 Posted August 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Surfing Alien said: What's the story of the sketch, if you know? It's pretty cool! This is a prelim for the Queen 'News of the world' album. RedFury 1
