Аннотация
Philip Jose Farmer
The Classic Philip Jose Farmer 1952-1964
Edited and Introduction by Martin H. Greenberg Foreword by Isaac Asimov Series Editor: George Zebrowski CROWN PUBLISHERS, INC. NEW YORK
Retrieving the Lost by Isaac Asimov
The history of contemporary science fiction begins with the spring of 1926, when the first magazine ever to be devoted entirely to science fiction made its appearance. For a quarter-century thereafter science fiction continued to appear in magazines—and only in magazines.
They were wonderful days for those of us who lived through them, but there was a flaw. Magazines are, by their very nature, ephemeral. They are on the newsstands a month or two and are gone. A very few readers may save their issues, but they are fragile and do not stand much handling.
Beginning in 1950, science fiction in book form began to make its appearance, and some of the books retrieved the magazine short stories and serials in the form of collec...
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