The Troons of Space and Other Stories

The Troons of Space and Other Stories PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540519825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Classical Science Fiction awaits the reader with three stories that are sure to excite your imagination and include: 1.....The Troons of Space 2....The Savage Machine 3.....Planet of Dread

The Troons of Space and Other Stories

The Troons of Space and Other Stories PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540519825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Classical Science Fiction awaits the reader with three stories that are sure to excite your imagination and include: 1.....The Troons of Space 2....The Savage Machine 3.....Planet of Dread

The Outward Urge

The Outward Urge PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 147323073X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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The 'outward urge' was a factor in the Troon inheritance. Successive generations of Troons, looking up at the stars, heard the siren voices that called them out into Space. And, as the frontiers of Space receded, there was usually one Troon, if not more, out there, helping to push them back. In an age in which what goes up need not necessarily come down, the likely adventures of the Conquistadors of Space are every bit as exciting as any world menaced by triffids. This coming-of-age classic from the author of The Midwich Cuckoos shows Wyndham's mastery across genres.

The Outward Urge

The Outward Urge PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 9781473230729
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Science Fiction Magazine Story Index, 1926-1995

Science Fiction Magazine Story Index, 1926-1995 PDF Author: Terry A. Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Since the appearance of the first science fiction magazine in 1926, thousands of short stories have been published in periodicals devoted to the genre. These stories cover a wide range of subjects, from spacecraft to the human condition, and feature little-known authors as well as masters like Ellison and Asimov. In the past, finding which issue of what magazine ran a certain story was nearly impossible. This much-needed reference tool provides valuable assistance in the daunting task of locating short stories published in science fiction magazines, providing exhaustive indexes to magazines, authors, and titles, allowing a variety of options for research on 34,000 stories appearing in nearly 5,000 issues of 133 genre magazines. Stories from all major American publications, as well as from several minor periodicals, are indexed. Also included is an appendix of the best known and most prolific contributors, giving the titles of all their stories in this work (necessary because the huge author index does not show titles). A guide to how to use this book clarifies its features for the researcher.

The Best of John Wyndham

The Best of John Wyndham PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780722193730
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Amazing Science Fiction Stories

Amazing Science Fiction Stories PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 898

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The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 996

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Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 964

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Building New Worlds, 1946-1959

Building New Worlds, 1946-1959 PDF Author: John Boston
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434447200
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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Building New Worlds is a history of a pivotal decades-long episode in the birth and growth of today's science fiction. Enthralling and amusing, it's written with affection and wit. This is no dry, modishly theorized academic analysis. Nor is it a rah-rah celebration of the "Good Old Days." Here is a candid and astute reader's response to a magazine that, by today's standards, was often comically bad--but was also immensely important in its time, and improved, like the Little Engine (or maybe Starship) That Could. New Worlds is best remembered today as the fountainhead of the New Wave of audacious experimental SF in the second half of the 1960s, under editor Michael Moorcock. But these first pioneering issues, from 1946-59, were edited by the magazine’s founder, John "Ted" Carnell (1912-72). Carnell was a pillar of the old-style UK SF establishment, but gamely supportive of innovators--most famously, of the brilliant J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, and John Brunner, whose early work he nurtured. The story of how New Worlds got started, survived, and got better is essential to the history of the genres of the fantastic in the UK--and indeed, the world. And huge fun to read. Watch for the companion volumes, New Worlds: Before the New Wave, and Strange Highways, dealing with New World's companion magazine, Science Fantasy.

The Golden Age of Science Fiction

The Golden Age of Science Fiction PDF Author: John Wade
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526729261
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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A detailed look at the British world of science fiction in the 1950s. John Wade grew up in the 1950s, a decade that has since been dubbed the “golden age of science fiction.” It was a wonderful decade for the genre, but not so great for young fans. With early television broadcasts being advertised for the first time as “unsuitable for children” and the inescapable barrier of the “X” certificate in the cinema barring anyone under the age of sixteen, the author had only the radio to fall back on—and that turned out to be more fertile for the budding SF fan than might otherwise have been thought. Which is probably why, as he grew older, rediscovering those old TV broadcasts and films that had been out of bounds when he was a kid took on a lure that soon became an obsession. For him, the super-accuracy and amazing technical quality of today’s science fiction films pale into insignificance beside the radio, early TV and B-picture films about people who built rockets in their back gardens and flew them to lost planets, or tales of aliens who wanted to take over, if not our entire world, then at least our bodies. This book is a personal account of John Wade’s fascination with the genre across all the entertainment media in which it appeared—the sort of stuff he reveled in as a young boy—and still enjoys today. “Not only a well–researched book grounded in hundreds of sources, but also an unmistakable labor of love.” —New York Journal of Books