Pat Calhoun Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 ok- more specific- in the early 1970s I collected PB SF short story anthologies- vintage and current. It was a great way to read a lot of of 1930s through 1950s material (it was fun and cheap) and I stress again 'history' records the novels more clearly but perhaps the greatest triumph of that era's sf (and fantasy) were shorts and novelettes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Scrooge Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 These '70's ppbs might be a great place to find reprint of "forgotten" authors like Dunsany for example ... even though by now, I figure Project Gutenberg might be even a better place. All the Verne books are there I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Amazing Adventures #1 (1950) is double-cool with one of the few (or only) RG Jones covers plus one of the few (another next ish!) sf yarns illo'ed by Schomburg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Terror at Night is 1947 and the Dunsany story is actually a crime yarn- but a great one 'The Two Bottles of Relish'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pat Calhoun Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Alex gets the cover story and 6 pgs (had 5 in #1) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Yup. Not too tough to guess, eh. Here are a couple more pics of the Man. One more Army days and one circa 1954 in color - What a fantastic month for Atlas!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Alex gets the cover story and 6 pgs (had 5 in #1) I put this in another thread but since you mentioned Alex, here is another photo that I hadn't seen before, thanks to Lloyd. And another cybermonkey which reminds me of that story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Alex gets the cover story and 6 pgs (had 5 in #1) I put this in another thread but since you mentioned Alex, here is another photo that I hadn't seen before, thanks to Lloyd. And another cybermonkey which reminds me of that story. I think Lloyd would take great umbrage at being referred to as a "cybermonkey", I know I would Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Hey Kids- it's (always) time for women in tubes Schomburg-Style! vol 2 #2 9/39 (my kinda graveyard!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 I think that's a great cover. I love Schomburg's choice of colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 Here is a weird menace take on the woman in tube theme. This one is painted by J.W. Scott. Uncanny Tales (August 1938) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted November 24, 2010 Author Share Posted November 24, 2010 ok- more specific- in the early 1970s I collected PB SF short story anthologies- vintage and current. It was a great way to read a lot of of 1930s through 1950s material (it was fun and cheap) and I stress again 'history' records the novels more clearly but perhaps the greatest triumph of that era's sf (and fantasy) were shorts and novelettes... I used to read the anthologies, too. I have no specific memories of ever reading Lord Dunsany but I'm certain I must have at some point. The only work of his that I have out on the shelves right now is The Fourth Book of Jorkens which I know I never did get around to reading. Maybe I'll give it a try this winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 you could read many 1930s Weird Tales cover stories (tuff chore- pretty thick cream already) and not come across a novelette like 'The Sea Witch' by Nictzin Dyalhis - gorgeously romantic S&S one should read every few years... Then throw in 'Pigeons From Hell' under the same cover- possibly the ultimate Howard tale (I know that's redundant- ultimo & REH are synonyms) and you prove the case for anthologies. add on 'The Man Who Returned' (cov) one of Edmond Hamilton's finest- he wasn't long on style or character but his sense of wonder blazed like a supernova... Moody little Lovecraft (The Strange High House in the Mist) for dessert? plus as the one on right- early Conan cov- shows (sorry bout blot) some de old anthologies almost collectable themselves!!??#*+++)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 here's a nice little Dunsany from here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodan57 Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 Thanks for the quoted text. I love stories where the fantastic and safe build to become the real and dangerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 Here is a weird menace take on the woman in tube theme. This one is painted by J.W. Scott. Uncanny Tales (August 1938) INCREDIBLE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 Great to see Dunsany getting the love he deserves. pcalhoun, I've been enjoying your posts both here and in the pulp thread. You have a great collection - keep 'em coming! The Avon Fantasy Readers are really underappreciated. I have a couple of the REH issues, but someday I'd like to put the whole run together. A lot of great reading and still pretty inexpensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted November 26, 2010 Share Posted November 26, 2010 (thanks for above) After all that turkey is a good time to praise things avian, and the greatest bird of the GA was Birdie, Airboy’s fantastic wing-flapping machine-gun-blasting plane and ‘companion’. Seems I saw something like her in an old book… So rev up the time machine- make sure there’s plenty of gas- and let’s trip back to 1897. There was a fair amount of Victorian SF. George Griffith wrote quite a few novels that were popular in 1890s England (less so in USA- might have gotten cold-shouldered for his socialist views…) including: The Angel of the Revolution (future war- Olga is sequel), Valdar the Oft-Born (reincarnation), The Gold Finder (a magnet that attracts gold!), The Romance of Golden Star (future history), and Captain Ishmael (immortality). Illustrator on this second edition of Olga Romanoff was Fred T Jane who wrote a few ‘scientific romances’ himself including The Incubated Girl, The Violet Flame, and an interplanetary yarn where they travel by ‘Transporter’ (as in ‘beam me up Scotty’) titled to make Verne look like a piker- To Venus in Five Seconds. Jane moved from the art of future warfare to depiction of present-day ships- sea and air- I think ‘Jane’s Defense Weekly’ is still published across the pond… Since I’m big Airboy fan (can you say ‘The Heap’!) page 281 definitely caught my eye…has the prototype look to me. Paging Charles Biro! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
