Galaxy, Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction

by Frederik Pohl (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Joseph D. Olander (Editor)

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Twenty-five stories from Galaxy magazine, originally published 1950-1976.

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Only one or two stories stood out, imo. I'm not much into 'behind the scenes' stuff though, so I think more serious fans of Galaxy or of sf short stories through the years would appreciate this more.
The plethora of authors just had to produce some real goodies, but all in all, it was disappointing collection. What makes the book worth having, though, is the complete index of Galaxy writers from 1950 throug 1978.
A great collection of scifi shorts published in Galaxay magazine. I read the first half of the stories awhile ago so I can't remember much of those but of the last bunch I read I really liked "Founding Father" by Isaac Asimov, "All Myriad Ways" by Larry Niven, "The Last Flight of Doctor Ain" by James Tiptree Jr, "Cold Friend" by Harlan Ellison, "The Gift Of Garigolli" by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, and "Overdrawn At The Memory Bank" by John Varley. I really liked reading the stories in one book like this. I might have to pick up another short story collection like this.
The companion to Worlds of If, also in my collection. In addition to a selection of the work from over the years, it also contains a full index (by author) of all the issues from October 1950 to May 1979. There is "All The Myriad Ways" by Larry Niven, and "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" by John Varley. I really miss those days.

It should be noted that this was also published in two volumes, in a mass market paperback, and I have the second volume of that.

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Frederik Pohl was born in New York City on November 26, 1919. More interested in writing than in school, he dropped out of high school in his senior year and took a job with a publishing company. After serving as a public relations officer in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945, he returned to publishing as copywriter for Popular Science, a show more literary agent for several sci-fi writers, and the editor for the magazines Galaxy and If from 1959 until 1969, with If winning three successive Hugo awards. His first published work, a poem entitled Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna, was printed in Amazing Stories magazine in 1937 under the pen name Elton Andrews. His first science fiction novels were published in the mid 1960's, some written in collaboration with other writers, others created alone. During his lifetime, he won over 16 major awards for his writing (much of which was published pseudonymously) including six Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. His works include Gateway, which won the Campbell Memorial, Hugo, Locus SF, and Nebula Awards, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, and Jem, which won the National Book Award in 1979. He also embraced blogging in his later years, using his online journal as an ongoing sequel to his autobiography, The Way the Future Was. He died on September 2, 2013 at the age 93. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 - June 25, 2011) was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books; he was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Some of his anthologies included: Past Imperfect (2001), Once Upon a Galaxy show more (2002) and Sirius: The Dog Star (2004). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Arkin, Alan (Contributor)
Asimov, Isaac (Contributor)
Bester, Alfred (Contributor)
Bixby, Jerome (Contributor)
Budrys, Algis (Contributor)
Danzig, Allan (Contributor)
Dick, Philip K. (Contributor)
Ellison, Harlan (Contributor)
Gold, Horace L. (Contributor)
Harmon, Jim (Contributor)
Henderson, Zenna (Contributor)
Knight, Damon (Contributor)
Kornbluth, C. M. (Contributor)
Lafferty, R. A. (Contributor)
Le Guin, Ursula K. (Contributor)
Leiber, Fritz (Contributor)
Merril, Judith (Contributor)
Niven, Larry (Contributor)
Samachson, Joseph (Contributor)
Sheckley, Robert (Contributor)
Silverberg, Robert (Contributor)
Smith, Cordwainer (Contributor)
St. Clair, Margaret (Contributor)
Sturgeon, Theodore (Contributor)
Tenn, William (Contributor)
Tiptree Jr., James (Contributor)
Varley, John (Contributor)

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1980

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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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813.0876Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in EnglishBy typeGenre fictionAdventure fictionSpeculative fiction
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PS648 .S3 .G33Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureCollections of American literatureProse (General)

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