Galaxy, Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction

Book Overview

Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science FictionThis anthology contains twenty five classic stories first published in Galaxy in the years 1950 to1976, together with introductions by Frederik Pohl... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872236471
• ISBN13: 9780872236479
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Wideview Books
• Length: 465 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

A very nice collection (3.75 average). Perhaps even better are the introductions by writers and editors of the era, talking about the magazine and Gold, the editor. Definitely worth some bonus points for all that. Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : Coming Attraction - Fritz Leiber Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : To Serve Man - Damon Knight Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : Betelgeuse Bridge - William Tenn Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : Cost of Living - Robert Sheckley Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : The Model of a Judge - William Morrison Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : The Holes Around Mars - Jerome Bixby Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : Horrer Howce - Margaret St. Clair Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : People Soup - Alan Arkin Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : Something Bright - Zenna Henderson Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : The Lady Who Sailed the Soul - Cordwainer Smith Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : The Deep Down Dragon - Judith Merril Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : Wall of Crystal Eye of Night - Algis Budrys Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : The Place Where Chicago Was - Jim Harmon Galaxy Volume 1 Pohl : The Great Nebraska Sea - Allan Danzig Strange social fashions. 4 out of 5 Tasty looking people. 3.5 out of 5 Snowed when selling the Snail Men. 4 out of 5 Appliance hard sell. 3.5 out of 5 Have your alien cake. 4 out of 5 Awful areological pongy puns. 3.5 out of 5 Lunatic Park. 4 out of 5 Chicken juice, no onions. 3.5 out of 5 Depression cackleberry cocoon crossover. 3.5 out of 5 Solo starnaut sheila's suitor. 4 out of 5 Three-toed thing therapy. 4 out of 5 Corporate corruption clash. 3.5 out of 5 Vegetarian overkill. 4.5 out of 5 Some geologic rearrangement of the USA. 3.5 out of 5

A curious retrospective

Galaxy Magazine was, back in the 1950's and early 60's, one the Big Three SF mags (the others were Astounding/Analog and The Magazine of F & SF), possibly even THE best. Its post-60's decline and fall only accentuated its former greatness.This collection, ostensibly a 30th anniversary salute, instead becomes a sort of gripe-fest, with the writers complaining about legendary editor Horace Gold's overbearing editing, or the magazine's later problems with funding. In spite of this, we're still left with a collection of rare greats. Pohl managed to put together a collection of excellent but seldom reprinted works (pretty tough when one of authors is Harlan Ellison). If you find this book, snap it up!