Status Updates From Before the Golden Age, Book 1

‘Submicroscopic’ by Capt. S. P. Meek was not a total success with me; I know I’m gonna bump into racism when I read 1880-1940 (and beyond) SF or Mysteries, but the particular brand of offence here is especially tiring at this point. Other than that, the story was okay - I tend to like “shrink-ee” stories - but Maurice Renard did something along these lines much earlier, in A Man Among The Microbes.

Finished 'The Moon Era' by Jack Williamson, and it makes me want to focus on more of Williamson's earliest stuff. Having read the last story in this book first, I will now read everything in order. It seems like this will be a terrific anthology, allowing for the kind of science that will be on display, in 1930s SF.

So I read the introductory, autobiographical material that Asimov indulges in before presenting the stories. That was okay….but that ego! Anyway, I jumped to the last story in the book, simply because it’s by Jack Williamson, and I wanted to go from a Fredric Brown story, to a Jack Williamson tale. The story is from 1932, called ‘The Moon Era’. I love it - shall save the ending for tomorrow.

This should be a real treat. Many of the SF novels I read over the last few years were from the 'Radium Age' (1904-1933), and this will be an extension of that. I may read the Jack Williamson story first, before I just go in order.