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The Best of Science Fiction o •

J a Adventures In Timo and Space Pago 3. The Other Worlds Pago 4® The Pocket-Book of.Science—Fiction Pago 4. Great Talcs of Terror & the Supernatural Page 5. The Grand Old Master by Thomas So Gardner/Ph.' D. Pago 6O Six Novels of the Supernatural Pago 3

Pamous Ghost Stories Page 8

Novel® of Science Pago 8

/OWCGxIINGr Sleep No More, Who Knocks, The Night S ide, The Sleeping ano the Dead , Creeps by Night, Beware After Dark,Not At Nivht, r.lho soon an issue of Pocket Book anthologies. PAGE 3 TEE BEST OP SOT^CD FICTION Edited, by Groff Conklin Crown Publishers (fb.OO) 785 pp

Concerning Science fiction John W. Campbell, Jr. Introduction A--.-. , Groff Conklin

Part One? arc a'tom. Solution Unsatisfactory 'Anson MacDonald The Great Jar ‘"Syndicate : 7 .. ■Frank R. Stockton The Piper’s Son ,... . . 'Lewis Padgett Deadline • Clove Cartmill Lobby ■■ ■ - ■ - ?...... ‘ ‘ -• •Clifford Do Simak Blowups He pp-ch ;. • ' . .■■ " Rob c r-t E c ini c in Atomic Power’- ; •. '.- . Don a o Stuart fart Two.? ano Wonders of Earth, EnllenzcrK;‘ n; ~ ~ Theodore - Sturgeon Davy J on c s 5 ’ fmba.ss a do r Raymond Z. Gallun Giant In The Earth Morrison Cello day Goldfish Bowl Anson MacDonald The Ivy Wr1 . ■ ■ . ■ . David H. Keller Liquid Li^ ‘ ■ Ralph Milne Darley fart Three: The Super science- of Lian • ■ • • .. ' A Tale oT the /fagged Mountains Edgar Julian, foe The Great Keinpl^-ts ^oeperinionc Arthur Conan Doyle The Remarkable^Case of Davidson’s Eyes H». G. Wells The Tissue-Culture King Julian Hunley . The Ultimate Catalyst J ohn'Taine The Terrible Sense ' ■ Calvin Peregoy n Soi entist-' Divi dos Donald Wandrei •t ‘ ; fart Four?Dangerous Invent ions Tricky Tonnage ..... Malcolm Jameson ■The Im ns on Screen ' ' ■ ... Arthur Leo Zagat The Ultimate Lie tai Eat gchachner Don A» Stuart

Part ~fVo: Adventures in Dimension Shorih^ hit cd Probability Ncrman I: ?: Knight The SGchcha A^ van Vogt The Upper Level Road 7/arner van Lorne The 3Slid of May Raul Ernst The Monster From Nowhere Do ns 1 d ‘Jan dr c i pert Sim, From Outer Space J. First Contact Hurray. Loinst or Universes < Robert Heinlein Blind i.llcy ■ Isaac Asimov En Route to Pluto Wallace West The Rctrcs-f to Mars Cecil B. hitc Pao M&n- .Zhp Saved the Earth Austin Hall sp^vn,. o.T tiio stars Charlc s j. Di ff in The risme'Midget ... Frank Bo Longj Jr. “L.xp edition An th ony Bouch cr The'Conquest, ofjGola; , ( Lesli. P. Stone Jackdaw'- .' ■• . . ’ „• , ■ ■ Ross Rocklynne PAGE 3 DVgNTURgS JW AND SPAÊ^ Edit ed by 'RâymbjR’r' if TReaTy^nS THâncTS H onse $2395 937 pp Introduction Healy & Lio Comas

Requiem Robert A. Heinlein Forgetfulness Don "A-* Stuart Nerves Lester Del Ray The Sands of Time P6 Schuyler.Hiller The Proud Robot Lewis Padgett J Biaok Destroyer Ac Eo van Vogt Symbiotica Eric. Frank Russell,. Seeds of the Dusk Raymond Z« Gallun Heavy Planet Lee. Gregor Time Looker , Lewis Padgett The Link ‘ ' Cleve Cartmill Mechanical Mice Maurice Ae Sugi V-2; Rbeket Cargo Ship Willy tey Adam and No Eve Alfied Bester Nightfall Isaac Asimov A Matter of Size Harry Bates AS Never Whs Pc Schuyler Miller Sprague de C; mp Flight Ixfto Darkness Webb LN rlowe. The 'Jo; pons Shop A« Eojvah Vogt Farewell to the Master Harry Bates Within the Pyramid R,..DeWitt Miller He Who Shrank Hcmjy Hasse By His Bootstraps Anson ^MacDonald . The Star Mouse Fr e dr ic ~ B r own Correspondenae Course Raymond. Fo Jones Brain So Fowler Wright

•SIX NOVELS OF THE SUPERK.ARJRAl Edited .by Edward Wagfenknecht, The Viking Press1944, 883 pgs ,$2,00

Introduction Edwatd Wagenknecht Editors Preface A beleaguered City Mrs. Oliphant Editors Preface The Return Walter De La Mare Editors Preface Ths VTnite People Frances Hodgson Burnett Editors Preface The Terror Arthur Machen Editors Preface Sweet Rocket Mary Johnston Editors Preface Portrait of Jennie Robert Nathan PAGE 4 THE OTHER WORLDS 25 LIO EARN STORIEOE Tli^VprY~and imagination Edited b“PHTT^®t “ &1.00 466 pp Foreword

Part I, Strange Ideas

The Considerate Hosts Thorp McClusky The Man in the Black Hat Mi cha e1 Fe ss i er Naked lady Mindret lard The House of Ecstasy Ralph Milne Parley Escape Paul Ernst The Adaptive Ultimate John JeSsel The Woman in Gray Walker Ge Everett The Pipes of Pan Lester del Ray Aunt Cassie Virginia Swaim part Iio Fresh Variants Notes :

A God in a Garden Theodore Sturgeon The Man Who Knew All the Answers Donald Bern Adam Linkrs Vengeance Eando Binder Truth is a Plague De.vid Wright OrBri'en The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator Mur riiy Leinster Alas, All Tn inking 5 Harry'Bates The Comedy of Eras Kelvin Kent (Kuttner) A Problem For Biographers Mindret Lord

Part IIIo TIH errors”

Notos Ln the Vault H. P« Lovecraft School for. the Unspeakable Manley Wade Wellman The House Whore Time Stood Still Seabury Quinn The Mystery of the last Guest John Flanders (Jean Ruy Song of the Slaves Manly Wade Wellman The Panelled Room August Derleth- The Graveyard Rats Henry Kuttncr The Return of Andrew ..Bentley August Derleth & Mark Schorer THE POCKETBOOK OF SCIENCE-FICTION '• Edited by Donal4 "A. Gollheim PockaKEboksl Inc, $a25 310 pp Introduction. Donald A, Wollheim By the Waters of Babylon Stephen Vincent Benet Moxon’s Muster Ambrose Bierce Green Thoughts John Collier • In The ^byss He Go Wells Oh c Gr g on S plo t ch c s T» So Stribling The n®st Man Wallace G» West x. Martian Odyssey Stanley Ge Woinbaum Twilight Don A.-Stuart■ Microcosmic God Theodore Sturgeon ■—And He Built., a Crooked House Robert Ao Heinlein PAGE 5 GREAT TALES W TERROR ^ND THE SUPERNATURAL Edited, by Herbert ,^a Wise and "jSiyllTs Hras'er Random House * ‘ 42 .’’95 1080 pp

• ' r ' / ’ .. Introduction Introduction to the Notes • ' . . ;. La Grande Bretecho Honore1 de Balzac The Black Cat ; ■ Edgar Allan Poe The Facts In The Case of Mi Valdemar 0 ’ Edgar Allan Poo. z? Terribly ■ Strange Bed .Wilkie Collins [ The Boarded‘Window •Ambrose fierce The ,.Thr,GG;- St rangers ■ < • Thoma's Hardy The Interruption W* *W4 J- ■ cobs Pollock and the Porroh Man. : H» Go Wells . The Sea Raiders \- '•Ho G. Wells'' Hrcdni Vcshtor ■ 1 ’ " ’ ■ ' ■ Saki .(H o E * Munro)... Moonlight Sonata 7 ~ -A Alexander Wo oilcott Silent Snow, Secret snow - Conrad Aiken Suspicion ... a' ■ Dorothy-Lo Sayers The Most Bangsreds & me “. ■ Richard'Connell . Deiningen Versus Thef-nts ' - Corl Stephenson The Gentleman.From-Ambf-ihh Micha.ol ‘.Arlen .A Rose fo.r' Emily .< ' . ■' William Faulkner •The Killers . C • Ernest Hemingway. Back for.. Christmas . * John Collier Taboo ’ ; a Geoffrey Household The Haunters and the Ha tinted ■ Edward Bulwci-Lytton RnppccciniJs Daughter Nathaniel. Hawtho me-. The -Trial for Murder* ’ . '- Charles Collins and a -u Charles DickcnS Green Tea . J. e Sh c ri dan. L e Fa nu W-t ?-s It? t. I : Fit z - Jl m c s 01 Br i on Sir .Ecimund Orme Henry James The Horie.. h ' . Guy de Maupassant Was It A; Dr cam? /. ..' Guy do Maupassant Tho Screaming Skull a Fo Marion Cra'wfordi. . The Fumi shed, Room Ct Henry Ousting The Runes LI0 Ri James Oh, AhistlCy -and P Come To YotL* My Lud Mo Rj James Edith Wharton The Monkeyfs Paw Wo Wo Jacobs ’The’Great God Pdh . ,.. ■' Arthur Machen Bow Dove Orme To Profossor Guilder Robert Hichcns The Return of Imrdy l ' Rudyard Kipling. , . They’. • ■ - - Ru dye-.- r d Ki pl i ng Lukundoo ■' •Edward luces IHiit.c Caterpillars • Ej F* Benson Mrs? nworth . ■ Ef F« Benson Algcnlon Blackwood Confession. - ■ u-a ;. • Algernon Blackwood The Open Window 7 '■ " ■Saki (HA H. Munro)-. The' Beckoning Fair*One ..{jii/ver. Onlohs (jut of the Deep a -i - waiter de lo Mare m and Evo • nd Pinch Md • E. Oopjhrd The Celestial Omnibus Eo. Mo Forster G±iost Ship . i. Richard Middleton Ihc Sailor-Boy1slTalc Isak Dines on Rats In The Wells H« Eo Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror H. .. P, Lovecraft PAGE 6 THE GRAND OLD MASTER by Thomas 3. Gardner, Ph. D.

The growth of science fiction as a literature has developed scores of new writers. Tire majority of the names in the .roster of. science fiction writers have only one or two stories to their credit. Sometimes a writer catches on and he becomes a professional. Duking the past ten ye^rsu^ new kind of writer has developed. He is^ tech nically trained -man/ or at least with a firm foundation of science, and he'writesi'as. a sideline to his regulaY profession. Such writers as John "W.; Qamob'ell.,. Jr., Robert a. Heinlein, Isaac nsimovp 3. 3. Smith, Plxf D.,. A. ■ 3...van Vogt, etc., are names to . con j urc. with in the field of science fiction. However one should not forget that there are many professional writers who make their living by writing science fiction. Such famous names as Eando Binder, Henry Mutt nor and Ray p.u mm in gs are only three of the remarkable people who have contributed to ©^literature;; Of all the professional writers in the field of fanrlsy and scionec., fiction none have been criticized as .much, both pro 'and con, as Ray Cummings, The Grand Old Master. .A great many- fans reared upon an exclusive diet; of. ASTOUNDING or iMASINCf .STORIES will immediately have strokes when. Cumming’s name; is mentioned as The Grand Old Master. However, they should not for get the qualities that go to make up such a title. Onf is the abil-’ ity towithstand the ravages of time. Cummings has been writing for over ttrcnty-fivo yors. His better novels arc colicctors’s items,' and when reprinted still sell well. A discussion of several will follow, h tc rek second quality of writing is.whether or not a piece of work .appeals to c few people or many people. -For example, the - bcst\y/pf'k of Cummings.-appecis to the intelligent f-ns, but it also appeals to the general public. This was ascertained by talking with peopre who were not fens who had road Cummings1 novels, and most im portant of 11, ■ trying, out some, of Cummings1 novels on pcciplc not indoctrinatei with sditncc-fiction. Three sets were selected.■ One was thbest novels of Cummings, a second, the poorest stories J and the third a. mixture of both. The best novels were all praise d, the poor stories were neye'r finished dub to their sc men ass, and the mixed series raised a howl on the poor material, end they asked me if I had ny more'of th good stuff. That is the best test one can make. an important point in any writer is appeal as a human-being in hie oh rekrs. Fpr example,' Cumming^ do s hot write . bout supermen, or supar-dup.cr heroes.who with on; hand and a ray gun lick whole con-, iingt.nts of’th-_ foe. In re 1 life that docs not happen very often, ana when it. do . s ticrens usually no surviving hero as has been borne out many times, in the past two World Wars. Cummings’ -.hero.os-arc simple, ordin- ry people like you and mo. They muddle through, .make mist-kes end survive by. r. series of fortuitious circumstances just as we do0 ..Consequently they mirror ourselves. His stories laid in the future are really Saturday Evening Post type of stories with common place hie ract .rs. To .fins rccrcd on mutants, super-men, etc., they arc tarn.: stuff; but they should not be r. ad with that viewpoint. They arc intcns ...ly huiif n and .human in action. The women -re seldom amaz ons. but like the girl you merry, a little dumb at >Ijiws', brilliant -at others, not: always consistcntioi.-ppr example in "The Piro Plan t” he. .sfirt-fd .out .op: type of dynastic rule’ Jand; civilization on Mercury,. but in three, later novels, "Tama, the Prine, ss of.Mercury", etc., an entirely .different dynasty is depicted .although the. wing'd- girl typ: was--r.tain„d.' " ■' h Cumming'S is.;given credit for or.sting the size-changing, f ormula. Unror ouncetcly?hi worked it to death* ticor s of st'orius1 and. novels us it; and, outside, 'of the first, "Th. Girl from-'the Golden', a tom", and pirgapsuche or two others they becom: very bortSOm u. ■ / A'lsh hi is unable, to pictur e a full-scale culture, but only seg- m? nts. of it* Gummings' cannot fight a war but inly skirmishes,, hnd tTist battles cannot handle his meh and ships in large qUantiti 'S* . lor .example the scope of the present war is entirely outbid of'his.:abfli.ty to ’describe. .-Thus on his wo rid-canvass's ar? >- inted pictur ijS; of,k fr w men in bri. f battl e with one.-or., a. very few battles d.terr'mihf^ It is rather amusing 'in; regard to his con cept of weapons. Pbr*"example, savages with stonhknives attack and papturs a modern arsenal, and immedit t cly'begin .tQ. p.SG modern, com- * plex -wba^of si : . I-Lts warships ;ilso untrue to rcclity. Time after time trccdip.tc.jicQ of two or throe miles; rapid • guns cut loose and the invaders" u'Sng r^y beams always catch the shell in'h'ull flight 'nd d: stray,'.-it. .Slow,a shell takes about two seconds to tr< vol two miles., and not oy^r^our seconds, yet the invaders sec the 'flash of the gun?rawing e ’hi'ff'bw ray, bucking the- inertia; of--m tter in getting . '.th: wch^nuinto c.tion, and actually pick the shell up in- flight* , Try this: som.:tim_ .- Take a five coll flashlight;, -ind^hav friend tneuw..t^nhis b. lls. at you at night from : bout twenty-five' yi rds away6 : if you can cat Oli‘-th'.; . slow?, moylng^ ball in the borm. ^-Most of the time you fail to even touch it* ka-isc'' tht..vr.lp..cl^^ three or five , ___ thousand feet s.cond, and imagine it age-, in $ Modern explosives ore superior to Cummings1 rays in most eases, but he has them lose nearly ‘. i'll thotimc.^ pTaint' tru-L, Hr. Cummings. ;;/ritcrs-oome and writers go, but Gummings-has such a smooth style whenever he really tries that it is a shame- he does not try more of ten.; if,“ X : were-Cummings I would never write another size-changing story, ,nor'one--about. v/inged girls, but would; concentrate, upon stories of the great, cities of the next century-with their* intrigues, and realize the' factors of sociology, changing, economics, and his wonder- full insight into simple people to turnout Wpllsinn sagas of tomor- '• rowfor us today. They would be good sellers aqdvnjakc rfar more money t, than the poor re-hash that has come-out • as inovellottos .and; short ' -s-torios ' within the last ton years. Thorc» hfo-many borderline stories such as ”i Now pound World.", "The Soa'ifirl", ;cfc,, which arc very in- ■-foresting .if not read too close together. Some 'day, some smart pub lisher will put out about twenty novels of -C.ummings' and mate himself some, money. Bic better stories will bo appreciated more as time goes on. ■ Now you young.r fans, bog-,, .borrow., or go to the public library and ryad the 'best novels of Cummings,’ and forget the shorts you have read in Pla mt, etc.- Read the few' published in the Strbd’t and Smi th - astounding, s- few in the old argosy. Then you will get a better ap- pr-ecia-tion of -tho Grand Old Master. His'name will live as long as Western 0’fviLiz.Cti.on lives.

The’Haunted and the;Haunters -Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Damned Things;.-Ambrose Bierce The -Monkey r.s Paw ■ ’ -W. W. Jacobs The Phantom Rickshaw -Rudyard Kipling The Willows' .-Algernon Blackwood The -Rival Ghost J- -Brand4r Matthews The"Man. Who Went Too Far . - -E. F.' Benson The Mezzotint ' • -M. Ru James The Open Window . -’’Saki”. ; b.w- Beckoning Fair One “ -Oliver Onions On the Brighton Road -Richard Middleton The Considerate Hosts . / ; -Thorp McClusky . August Heat > -W, F. Harvey The Return of Andrew Bentley -August Dcrlcth and Mark Schorcr Tht Supper at Elsinore , ” -Isnk’ Dines on ■■Introductory Note • ' -Bonnett Cerf The. Current■ Crop of Ghost Stories -Bonnett Cerf

- '-'■■ - NOVELS' OF -SCIENCE Selected by'Donald A. Wollhcim, The ’Viking Press-, 737 pages ,1945 ,§2 ■ i .• '■ . ... , > Introduction " .. o:' -Donald A. Wollhcim ’ ; 1 ' i ' ’ THE HI’RS T MEN IN THE MOON ' ' < -H. G. Wells BEFORE THE DAWN ’ a . " Ai -John Taino THE.SHADOW OUT- OF THO, .. . ' A . -H. P. Lovecraft ODD" J-OHN .. ■> .'/■ -Olaf Stapleton------

yrtr.g--Lji 5 tn rd Al proifaqe p recc’d os each novel,