Original vintage paperback book.BANTAM BOOKS IN 1946. Bantam 33 printed May 1946. Image for Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda 1946 pb ed Cirlin cover art. (They were also no doubt influenced by the 1932 publication of Aldous Huxley’s literate, analytical, socially conscious Brave New World.) According to my eccentric generational and cultural era schema, 1934 is the first year of the Thirties (1934–1943), so let’s go ahead and semi-arbitrarily call 1934 the Golden Age’s starting point.Add 11.05. By my reckoning, however, Campbell and his cohort first began to develop their literate, analytical, socially conscious science fiction in reaction against the 1934 advent of the campy Flash Gordon comic strip, not to mention Hollywood’s innumerable mid-1930s Bug-Eyed Monster-heavy “sci-fi” blockbusters that sought to ape the success of 1933’s King Kong.
The Prisoner of Zenda being the history of three month in the life of an English gentleman. Harry and friends master advanced magic classes, cross time barriers, and change the course of more. Harry must overcome the threats of Dementors, outsmart a werewolf, and finally deal with the truth about Sirius and his relationship with his parents.
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Beresford’s The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911). Forster’s The Machine Stops (1909). Gustave Le Rouge’s Le Prisonnier de la Planète Mars (1908). Rudyard Kipling’s With the Night Mail (1905). And if you’d like to support the cause, please visit the HiLoBooks homepage you’ll find purchase links for our series of reissued Radium Age sci-fi paperbacks.The following classics from the science fiction genre’s Radium Age (1904–33) era are listed here in order to provide some historical context. Please let me know what favorite 1934–1963 sci-fi novels I’ve overlooked.
Mikhail Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog (1925). Fowler Wright’s The Amphibians (1924–25). Merritt’s The Moon Pool (1918–1919). Rider Haggard’s When the World Shook (serialized 1918–1919).
“Doc” Smith, Olaf Stapledon, H.P. During the decade’s first few years, we find a number of titles published by E.E. Philip Gordon Wylie’s Gladiator (1930).Note that the Thirties (1934–1943) are an interregnum between sci-fi’s Radium and Golden Ages. Olaf Stapledon’s The Last and First Men (1930). “Doc” Smith’s The Skylark of Space (1928). Lovecraft’s The Color Out of Space (1927).
Jack Kirby’s epic concept — in The Eternals — about the genetic experimentations of the alien Celestials, using Earth as a laboratory — owes a large debt to Smith.) After World War III, the Arisian influence begins to predominate humankind explores space, and forms a Triplanetary League: Venus, Earth, and Mars. (The battle has been going on for millennia: for example, it led to the sinking of Atlantis. One race, the Eddorians, influences Earthlings to fail but the Arisians influence Earthlings to transcend their limitations. As two super-races battle for control of the universe, a backward planet in a remote galaxy has become their battleground. “Doc” Smith’s Triplanetary (serialized 1934, in Amazing Stories as a book, 1948). However, by the end of the Thirties, we can discern the emergence of Golden Age sci-fi.
Fortunately, one of the Purples, John Ulnar, switches sides — and becomes a D’Artagnan to Habibula, Kala, and Samdu. However, the Medusae have joined forces with Purple Hall pretenders seeking a return to power. Habibula, Kala, and Samdu are members of a military/police force who’ve maintained order and peace among the solar system’s inhabited planets ever since the downfall of the tyrannical Purple Hall empire. His protagonist, Giles “The Ghost” Habibula, is a former master criminal (of mixed English/Arabic descent, one presumes) who joins with two other outer-space adventurers, Jay Kala and Hal Samdu, to battle the Medusae, a Cthulhu-esque alien race which aims to destroy humankind and inhabit our solar system. “Doc” Smith, Williamson gives us more of the same pulp fare — though with better characterizations. Jack Williamson’s The Legion of Space (serialized 1934, in six parts in book form, 1947) Building on the space opera conventions established by E.E.
There, they experiment with telepathic communication, free love, “intelligent worship,” and “individualistic communism.” The jacket illustration shown here captures Stapledon’s notion of the titular John: half-child and half-philosopher, ruthless but not malicious, “a creature which appeared as urchin but also as sage, as imp but also as infant deity,” a fallen angel with a face that is “half monkey, half gargoyle, yet wholly urchin, with its huge cat’s eyes, its flat little nose, its teasing lips.” Cue David Bowie: “Look at your children/See their faces in golden rays/Don’t kid yourself they belong to you/They’re the start of a coming race.” The novel’s narrator, who has observed John growing up, and who is the only un-evolved human permitted to visit the island, isn’t sure whether to be overjoyed or terrified about what the “wide-awakes” are planning. Led by a teenage mutant “supernormal,” Odd John, a group of evolved misfits form an island colony. An extraordinary novel — by a visionary author who helped usher in Radium Age-era sci-fi themes and memes into the genre’s so-called Golden Age — which deserves to be much better known. Olaf Stapledon’s Odd John (1935). Fun fact: Other titles in the Legion of Space series: The Cometeers (serialized 1936), One Against the Legion (serialized 1939), and The Queen of the Legion (1983!).
(Hello, Planet of the Apes. The Elder Things battled both the Star-spawn of Cthulhu and the Mi-go and as the Shogvoths gained independence, their civilization began to decline. Part of the expedition is massacred — and it appears as though some of the frozen creatures have come back to life! Exploring the ruins, the surviving explorers determine that it was built by Elder Things, who first came to Earth shortly after the Moon took form, and built their cities with the help of shape-shifting, all-purpose “Shoggoths” (like Al Capp’s Shmoos, but uncannier). A 1930 scientific expedition to Antarctica — from Arkham, Massachusetts’s Miskatonic University — discovers the ruins of a vast, ancient city… and the frozen bodies of some strange creatures, part-plant and part-animal. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness (1936 as a book, 1964).
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