Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #2: With linked Table of Contents

by Warren Lapine (Editor), Jim Harmon

Edited by H. L. Gold, 'Galaxy Science Fiction' hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. 'Galaxy' gave a home to writers that didn't fit into 'Astounding' and 'F&SF, ' and readers rejoiced. In this first 'Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack' we bring you more than five hundred pages of fiction. These are the stories that helped 'Galaxy Magazine' carve it's name on the Mount Rushmore of science fiction. This volume includes 'Dream World' by R. A. Lafferty; 'The Imitation of Earth' by James Stamers; 'Amateur in Chancery' by George O. Smith; 'The Lamps of the Angels' by Richard Sabia; 'Conditionally Human' by Walter M. Miller, Jr.; 'Dawningsburgh' by Wallace West; 'Extracts from the Galactick Almanack' by Laurence Janifer; 'Breakdown' by Herbert D. Kastle; 'A Matter of Protocol' by Jack Sharkey; 'Charity Case' by Jim Harmon; 'The Rag and Bone Men' by Algis Budrys; 'Pick a Crime' by Richard R. Smith; 'Shatter the Wall' by Sydney Van Scyoc; 'Always a Qurono' by Jim Harmon; 'Subject to Change' by Ron Goulart; 'Sales Talk' by Con Blomberg; 'The Big Engine' by Fritz Leiber; 'Accidental Flight' by F. L. Wallace; 'The World That Couldn't Be' by Clifford D. Simak; 'Solid Solution' by James Stamers; 'With These Hands' by C. M. Kornbluth; 'A Fall of Glass' by Stanley R. Lee; 'Sordman the Protector' by Tom Purdom; 'Jamieson' by Bill Doede; 'The Music Master of Babylon' by Edgar Pangborn; and 'The Defenders by Philip K. Dick.

527 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 15, 2016

About the author

Warren Lapine is a speculative fiction writer and publisher.

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Individually these are very good stories. But some are depressing, and altogether it becomes a tough read. ‘Dream World’ is deliberately disgusting. ‘The Rag and Bone Men’ is hard to process. ‘Accidental Flight’ is a meander about differently-abled cripples who come to an unwarranted happy ending. In ‘The Music Master of Babylon’ the last old man on Earth is found by a young couple who steal his idol and leave him up the creek without his paddle. In ‘The Defenders’ people move underground so robots can wage war on the surface, except they don't, instead seal the people into their caves pending some abstract solution.
Don't read the whole thing at once.

[Scott Winegar · Rating 1 out of 5]

Waste of time and money

It has been a very long time that I have read stories as bad as these. I couldn't even get through one story before trying another story