More Tales from the Golden Age of Science Fiction: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories

The Golden Age of Science Fiction

by Poul Anderson

This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. The stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s, often called "The Golden Age of Science Fiction."

Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Mack Reynolds, Paul Ernst, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Raymond Gallun, Philip José Farmer, Randall Garrett, Henry Kuttner and many others.

Contents:

THE SENSITIVE MAN by Poul Anderson
WHEN SUPER-APES PLOT by Wilder Anthony
YOUTH by Isaac Asimov
NOBLE REDMAN by J. F. Bone
THE PLANET SAVERS by Marion Zimmer Bradley
STEP IV by Rosel George Brown
THE BARBARIANS by Algis Budrys
THERE IS A REAPER ... by Charles V. De Vet
PURSUIT by Lester Del Rey
THE EYES HAVE IT by Philip K. Dick
DARK MOON by Charles W. Diffin
THE RAID ON THE TERMITES by Paul Ernst
RASTIGNAC THE DEVIL by Philip José Farmer
THE CIRCUIT RIDERS by R. C. FitzPatrick
FEE OF THE FRONTIER by H. B. Fyfe
BIG PILL by Raymond Z. Gallun
BUT, I DON'T THINK by Randall Garrett
BY PROXY by Randall Garrett
STOPOVER PLANET by Robert E. Gilbert
THE GALLERY by Rog Phillips
AM I STILL THERE? by James R. Hall
ONE PURPLE HOPE! by Henry Hasse
THE JAMESON SATELLITE by Neil R. Jones
WHERE THE WORLD IS QUIET by Henry Kuttner
THE HATE DISEASE by Murray Leinster
TO INVADE NEW YORK... by Irwin Lewis
THE WEALTH OF ECHINDUL by Noel Loomis
THE SEA TERROR by S. P. Meek
A FINE FIX by R. C. Noll
VOODOO PLANET by Andre Norton
MY FRIEND BOBBY by Alan E. Nourse
SECOND SIGHT by Alan E. Nourse
THE AIRLORDS OF HAN by Philip Francis Nowlan
RESCUE SQUAD by Thomas J. O'Hara
LAST ENEMY by H. Beam Piper
MINISTRY OF DISTURBANCE by H. Beam Piper
SUBVERSIVE by Mack Reynolds
THE OTHER LIKENESS by James H. Schmitz
CONQUEST OVER TIME by Michael Shaara
STAR PERFORMER by Robert J. Shea
COST OF LIVING by Robert Sheckley
RELUCTANT GENIUS by Henry Slesar
THE CIRCLE OF ZERO by Stanley G. Weinbaum
MOMENT OF TRUTH by Basil Wells
SECOND SIGHT by BASIL WELLS
ZEHRU OF XOLLAR by Hal K. Wells
BE IT EVER THUS by Robert Moore Williams
THE WHISPERING SPHERES by R. R. Winterbotham
A KNYGHT THER WAS by Robert F. Young
WHEN THE SLEEPERS WOKE by Arthur Leo Zagat

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First published April 11, 2010

About the author

Pseudonym A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, Winston P. Sanders, P. A. Kingsley.

Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.

Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.[2][3]

Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.


Series:
* Time Patrol
* Psychotechnic League
* Trygve Yamamura
* Harvest of Stars
* King of Ys
* Last Viking
* Hoka
* Future history of the Polesotechnic League
* Flandry

Reviews

[William Grasso · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the oldest collections of Sci-fi, this book contains a treasure trove of short stories. I read this with the intent of informing my own writing aspirations, and I was gratified by the fact that so many ideas had been explored so early on, by such famous writers. This book can serve as a foundation for a writer's research, or a tutorial on getting back to writing roots- there's every style of writing, point of view, etc in here. Not every story is astounding here in 2012, but if you're interested in the roots of modern sci-fi, this is a great place to start. One piece of advice: This is a big book. If a story starts to bore you or lose you, skip to the next one. Many of these stories are significantly behind the times now, as we know much more about science, space, and so on than we did in 1936. Enjoy this for what it is- a trip back in time to when every scientific idea was practically a new thought, and no one knew for sure what was imagination and what would end up being real.