![]() ![]() Well, Mike Ashley makes me feel like a spry spring chicken. These young anthologists make me feel old. One of my criticisms of some recent reprint collections by anthologists like Neil Clarke (and others) has been the lack of fiction from before the year 2,000. Above are the magazines that contained six of the stories included in Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures. Six of the SF pulp and digest magazines containing stories reprinted in Moonriseīecause I can’t resist needlessly burdening this article with beautiful covers, I’ve curated a selection for each volume, featuring half a dozen of the original sources. (Warning: entirely superfluous pulp magazine covers ahead). Each volume also includes a fascinating and impeccably researched introduction by Ashley that’s sure to whet your appetite. Ballard, Ambrose Bierce, Isaac Asimov, Henry Kuttner and Catherine Moore, Brian W Aldiss, Murray Leinster, and many others. ![]() Dickson, John Wyndham, Edmond Hamilton, Arthur C. The first three in the series - Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures, Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet, and Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction - make an impressive set, containing nearly three dozen stories originally published between 1887 – 1965 by H.G. ![]() Two weeks ago I gazed in wonder at Mike Ashley’s 10-volume anthology series of science fiction from the pre-spaceflight era, the British Library Science Fiction Classics. The first three anthologies in the British Library Science Fiction Classics: Moonrise, ![]()
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