moonrise the golden age of lunar adventures

Both are part of the British Library Science Fiction Classics, which I’ve never heard of, but for which I immediately have a deep and passionate love.

Its sister anthology Moonrise: The Golden Era of Lunar Adventures, with stories from F&SF, Amazing, Tales of Wonder, Astounding, New Worlds, and Fantastic, arrives in September. Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet, which collects pulp-era tales (and pre pulp-era tales) from Wonder Stories, Amazing Stories, Astounding, and Worlds of If, was published in April 2018. Writing as Todd McAulty, I reviewed the first two here back in 2018:

Science-Fiction Magazines (Liverpool University Press, April 1, 2022) Magazines from 1991 to 2020, Volume V of The History of the The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction And they are positively packed with fun reading. Reasonably priced in handsome trade paperback and affordable digital editions, these volumes are an essential addition to any modern SF collection. Mining classic tropes like the Moon and Mars, sinister machines, creeping monsters, and looming apocalypses, Ashley has produced a veritable library of foundational SF and fantasy. And what books they are! They gather early fiction across a wide range of themes, heavily focused on pulp-era and early 20th Century SF and fantasy. Temple, Charles Eric Maine, and Muriel Jaeger, and even a new collection of previously-abridged novellas from John Brunner, The Society of Time, which looks pretty darn swell.īut the bulk of the series - eleven books - consists of ten anthologies and a non-fiction title from Mike Ashley.

There are nineteen volumes in the British Library Science Fiction Classics so far, including long-forgotten novels by William F. He’s edited dozens of SF anthologies over the years, including 19 volumes in The Mammoth Book series ( The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy, The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction, The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, etc.)īut I’m currently obsessed with his latest project, a sequence of terrific anthologies published under the banner of the British Library Science Fiction Classics. He interviewed me years ago about founding the SF Site ( ), one of the first science fiction websites, back in 1995, for his book The Rise of the Cyberzines, the fifth volume of his monumental History of Science Fiction Magazines. Hardy, Warwick Goble, Frederick Siebel, et al Plus his non-fiction survey Yesterday’s Tomorrows, and interior art from Moonrise (bottom right).Ĭovers by Chesley Bonestell, David A.

All ten anthologies in the British Library Science Fiction Classics edited by Mike Ashley,

Moonrise the golden age of lunar adventures