The 45th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: P. Schuyler Miller, Vol. 2

Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK

by P. Schuyler Miller

P. (Peter) Schuyler Miller (1912-1974) was a technical writer with an MSc in chemistry, as well as a critic, amateur archaeologist, and author. He reviewed science fiction works in Astounding Science-Fiction from 1945 until 1975. He accumulated one of the largest private collections of science fiction books in his day (roughly 8,000 hardcovers and paperbacks). In 1963 he was presented with a special Hugo for his reviewing. He began as an author of fiction at 18 years old ("The Red Plague," 1930) and was one of the more popular and accomplished SF pulp writers of the 1930s. This volume collects 22 classic Man's Question
The Red Plague
Dust of Destruction
The Man from Mars
The Arrhenius Horror
Tetrahedra of Space
Through the Vibrations
Cleon of Yzdral
The Red Spot of Jupiter
The Duel on the Asteroid
Jeremiah Jones, Alchemist
The Forgotten Man of Space
The Titan
The Atom Smasher
The Pool of Life
The People of the Arrow
The Ultimate Image
The Facts of Life
John Cawder's Wife
Plane and Fancy
Ship-in-a-Bottle
Ghost

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Genres: Science Fiction

543 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 22, 2018

About the author

Peter Schuyler Miller (February 21, 1912 – October 13, 1974) was an American science fiction writer and critic.

Miller was raised in New York's Mohawk Valley, which led to a lifelong interest in the Iroquois Indians. He pursued this as an amateur archaeologist and a member of the New York State Archaeological Association.

He received his M.S. in chemistry from Union College in Schenectady. He subsequently worked as a technical writer for General Electric in the 1940s, and for the Fisher Scientific Company in Pittsburgh from 1952 until his death.

Miller died October 13, 1974 on Blennerhassett Island, West Virginia. He was on an archaeological tour to the "Fort Ancient culture" site west of Parkersburg at the time.

Miller wrote pulp science fiction beginning in the 1930s, and is considered one of the more popular authors of the period. His work appeared in such magazines as Amazing Stories, Astounding, Comet, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Marvel Tales, Science Fiction Digest, Super Science Stories, Unknown, Weird Tales, and Wonder Stories, among others.

An active fan of others' work as well as an author, he is also known as an early bibliographer of Robert E. Howard's "Conan" stories in the 1930s, together with his friend John D. Clark.

Miller gradually shifted into book reviewing beginning in 1945, initially for Astounding Science Fiction and later for its successor, Analog. He began a regularly monthly review column in the former in October, 1951. As a critic he was notable for his enthusiasm for a wide coverage of the science fiction field. He was awarded a special Hugo Award for book reviews in 1963.

His extensive collection of papers, maps, books and periodicals, accumulated largely as a result of his review work, was donated to the Carnegie Museum after his death by his sister Mary E. Drake. They now form the basis of the P. Schuyler Miller Memorial Library at the Edward O'Neill Research Center in Pittsburgh.

Reviews

[Scott Winegar · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just not my type of science fiction

Not really easy to read. To many descriptive words like he was paid by the word. Will try another one