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The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Ten Classic Stories from the Birth of Modern Science Fiction Writing
Author(s): Martin Greenberg (Author)
- Publisher: Robinson Publishing
- Publication Date: 29 Mar. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 532 pages
- ISBN-10: 1845290968
- ISBN-13: 9781845290962
Book Description
This title includes ten classic stories from the birth of modern science fiction writing. The Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing including authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. Their writing helped science fiction gained wide public attention, and left a lasting impression upon society. The same writers formed the mould for the next three decades of science fiction, and much of their writing remains as fresh today as it was then. Collected in one giant volume, here is the very best of the golden era. The stories include: A.E. van Vogt’s “The Weapons Shop”; Isaac Asimov’s “The Big and the Little”; Lester del Rey’s “Nerves”; Fredric Brown’s “Daymare”; Theodore Sturgeon’s “Killdozer!”; C.L. Moore’s “No Woman Born”; and, A. Bertram Chandler’s “Giant Killer”.
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About the Author
Martin H. Greenberg, dubbed the king of anthologists, has more than 1000 anthologies to his credit, including the Murder Most … series. Bill Pronzini, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, is author of over 50 novels, including the Nameless Detective series.
