“A fairly good time capsule of sf starting to become a genre of its own, and "Amazing Stories" in particular. ,,, for the pulp fiction fan, this will be an interesting and fun read And all of 1926's covers are reprinted on this anthology's back cover.” –Amazon review. 1940 was an important year for Amazing Stories—and for its new editor, Raymond A. Palmer. For Palmer it was the culmination of his dream to create a stable of new science fiction writers for Amazing, the way John W. Campbell Jr. had done two years earlier with such spectacular success at Astounding Stories. Palmer gathered Don Wilcox, Robert Moore Williams, the highly underrated Rog Phillips, David Wright O’Brien, David Vern Reed (of Batman fame), Chester. S. Geier, the Livingston brothers (Herbert and Berkeley), Leroy Yerxa, Frances Deegan, Richard S. Shaver, and others quite popular then but of lesser fame today. He also opened his pages to anything such important authors as Ray Bradbury, Nelson S. Bond, Eando Binder, and Robert Bloch cared to write, 1940 was the year it all came together for Ray Palmer. From then on Amazing Stories’ readership and circulation would continue to grow, even through and after the war, in a triumphal arc. The stories reprinted here, we believe are among the most outstanding Palmer published in Amazing during 1940. Guiding our selections are what we feel are three key signifiers of quality: 1) reader reaction as reflected in the magazine’s letter columns, 2) a story having been deemed worthy of reprint by the field’s most able anthologists, and 3) our own personal reading of all twelve issues published that year. The gem of the year, a novelette which still enjoys classic status today, was undoubtedly “The Voyage that Lasted 600 Years,” the first story ever set on board a ship making a generations-long voyage to a distant star. Once again Amazing was in the lead with a cornerstone sf idea that remains a vital part of the field to this day (beating out Robert A. Heinlein’s “Universe,” which is often misremembered as the first use of a generation starship, by a full year). Also included are Truth Is A Plague David Wright O’Brien The Living Mist Ralph Milne Farley Paul Revere And The Time Machine A. W. Bernal Monster Out Of Space Malcolm Jameson The Day Time Stopped Moving Ed Earl Repp (Writing As Bradner Buckner) The Mathematical Kid Ross Rocklynne The Strange Voyage Of Dr. Penwing Richard O. Lewis The Three Wise Men Of Space Donald Bern Sons Of The Deluge (complete novel) Nelson S. Bond This special 1940 Retro-Hugo edition of The Best of Amazing Stories is not intended to tell World Science Fiction Convention members who or what to vote for (or not to vote for). At the same time it is not possible for most readers to obtain copies of all the science fiction stories and novels published during 1940 or even those classics that might be ranked among the best. Unfortunately, many of the latter are not in print, and those that are are scattered widely among many different anthologies and not easy to assemble. We offer this present book in the hope that it may help contemporary readers become more informed about, at least, some of the better science fiction of the year 1940. Contains a special Introduction and survey of the best stories published in every magazine during the year.

The Best of Amazing Stories: The 1940 Anthology: Special Retro-Hugo Edition

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Wilcox, Don

Gallun, Raymond Z.

Rocklynne, Ross

Bond, Nelson S.

Science Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Goddess of the Moon by John Murray Reynolds "Death hid behind a smile in the white-and-gold lunar city of Gral-Thala. But Gibson, adventurer in space, knew that if he died the Good Green planet perished with him." Dictator of Time by Nelson S. Bond "Twentieth-century Larry Wilson and Sandra Day lead the Armageddon of the Ages against Harg, crafty, vain monster-intellect, bent on warping Man to his Inhuman Will!" The Girl From Infinite Smallness by Ray Cummings "The terrified Princess of Heanas burst into a different space-sphere to find an earthling champion. For the vicious Tarch had thieved the formula of transcendent growth." Martian Terror by Ed Earl Repp Revolt on the Earth-Star by Carl Selwyn The Tantalus Death by Ross Rocklynne The Space Flame by Alexander M. Phillips The Man Who Killed the Earth by Ray King

Planet Stories - Spring 1940: Adventure House Presents:

Repp, Ed Earl

Cummings, Ray

Selwyn, Carl

Reynolds, John Murray

Phillips, Alexander M.

King, Ray

Adventure House

Venus Enslaved Task to Lahri by Ross Rocklynne "The Lahri were dying out, and it was Hallmeyer's grim task to speed their doom." The Star-Master by Ray Cummings "Docile, decadent Venus was easy picking for that twenty-first century Hitler." Venus Enslaved by Manly Wade Wellman The Cosmic Derelict by John Broome Asteroid of the Damned by Dirk Wylie Out of This World by Henry Hasse Captain Chaos by Nelson S. Bond As It Was by Carlton Smith

Planet Stories - Summer/42: Adventure House Presents:

Smith, Carlton

Broome, John

WELLMAN, MANLY WADE

Wylie, Dirk

Hasse, Henry

The War-Nymphs of Venus by Ray Cummings "The voluptuous, golden civilization of Arron was doomed. Licentious laughter echoed through the water-kingdom, unmindful of the clanking, relentless invasion of the Gorts. What fools, this handful of warrior-maidens, to pit their thin strength against Tollgamo's iron legions." Vampire of the Void by Neil R. Jones Exiles of the Desert Star by Ross Rocklynne Revolt on Io by Nelson S. Bond The Monster That Threatened the Universe by R.R. Winterbotham Treasure of Triton by Charles A. Baker The Cosmic Derelict by John Russell Fearn 4 1/2 B, Eros by Malcolm Jameson Satellite of Fear by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.

Planet Stories - Spr/41: Adventure House Presents:

Fearn, John Russell

Jones, Neil R.

Winterbotham, R.R.

Kummer Jr., Frederick Arnold

Jameson, Malcolm

Baker, Charles A.

Space-Liner X-87 The X-87 was a red shambles...a horror-ship roaring the far-flung star-ways The Forbidden Dream by Ross Rocklynne Exiles of the Three Red Moons by Carl Selwyn The Cosmic Juggernaut by John Russell Fearn The Dark Swordsmen of Saturn by Neil R. Jones Sphere of the Never-Dead by Sam Carson Star Pirate by Frederick A. Kummer, Jr. Asteroid H277—Plus by Harry Walton

Planet Stories - Sum/40: Adventure House Presents:

Carson, Sam

Kummer Jr., Frederick A.

Walton, Harry

Invaders of the Forbidden Moon Harwich blasted from Jupiter to solve the riddle of a cosmic death-trap. Sargasso of the Stars by Frederick A. Kummer, Jr. The "Spot" was the curse of the Universe; a drifting Sargasso of lost space-ships. Mutiny Abroad the "Terra" by Ross Rocklynne A lovely stowaway sparked the mutiny-threatened "Terra" into a hell-ship. Proktols of Neptune by Henry Hasse Space-runner spun horror-tales about Neptune's almost legendary race of Proktols. The Ballad of Blaster Bill by Nelson Bond The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter by Leigh Brackett Genesis! by R.R. Winterbotham World of Mockery by Sam Moskowitz Space-Wolf by Ray Cummings

Planet Stories - Summer/41: Adventure House

Brackett, Leigh

Moskowitz, Sam

Gunnison,John P.

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels.  The first novel, Ross Rocklynne’s “Intruders from the Stars” is grand tale of “accidental” invasion.  Earth lay in the grip of an alien beauty, Bess-Istra—a lovely but malevolent woman from beyond the stars.  Yet how was this possible?  She possessed only a single spaceship and a small force of soldiers.  But her weapons were like nothing mankind had ever seen.  She could ravage the planet’s surface in a few short days—and there was no way the combined forces of man could possibly stop her.  The Earth was completely vulnerable to her unrelenting lust for conquest.  Only a New York reporter and a Christian missionary from the wilds of Africa had any chance of swaying her intentions.  And that chance seemed hopelessly slim—especially since she had captured the hearts of both men.  The second novel is an outer space thriller by longtime sci-fi veteran, Chester S. Geier.  “Flight of the Starling” is about man’s attempt to attain outer space flight at the speed of light.  There was more to the maiden voyage of the Starling than just the ordinary test flight of another run-of-the-mill spacecraft.  The Starling was the first of its kind—a spaceship built to travel at the speed of light.  Enthusiasm for the adventure that lay ahead was high.  Scientist and pilot alike were bursting at the seams with impatience to see if their suped-up rocketship would perform as hoped.  A simple test run…that was all it was supposed to be.  But simple is not often the way Mistress Science behaves, and on that day she decided to serve up a wicked curve ball—a curve ball right over the plate of the space-time continuum!

Intruders From the Stars & Flight of the Starling

Geier, Chester S.

Armchair Fiction & Music

"A fairly good time capsule of sf starting to become a genre of its own, and "Amazing Stories" in particular. ,,, for the pulp fiction fan, this will be an interesting and fun read And all of 1926's covers are reprinted on this anthology's back cover." -Amazon review. Despite so many authors being off at the front fighting WW2, 1943 was a pretty good year for Amazing Stories. At the start of 1944, when readers traditionally wrote in to select their best-of-the-year lists, the most frequently cited were: "The Machine," "The Devil's Planet," "Me - the People," "When the Darkness Came," "War Worker 17," "The Powerful Pipsqueak," "Daughter of Destiny," "The Degenerate Mr. Smith," "The Pacifist of Hell's Island," "Rats in the Belfry," "Carbon-Copy Killer," "The Chameleon Man," "Enigma of the City," "The Lost Warship," and "Pop Gun." In this special Retro Hugo collection, which contains many of the aforementioned favorites, which we agree are worthy of award consideration."A fantastic collection of top of the line scifi adventures from a time when they were written by the very best." -Ralph Greco, Jr., Amazon 5-Star review.

The Best of Amazing Stories: the 1943 Anthology

McGivern, William P.

Williams, Robert Moore

Petaja, Emil

Palmer, Raymond A.

Heroic tales of sword-swinging adventure can sometimes be found in unlikely places—such as the pages of Golden Age science fiction magazines! Rather than being set in the dim past or a fantastic dream-world, the stories in this collection take place on other planets. Journey to Luna, Mars, and worlds even more distant with these classic tales by five masters of adventure science fiction!\nStories included: 
“The Temple of Earth” by Poul Anderson 
“World of the Dark Dwellers” by Edmond Hamilton 
“The Eyes of Thar” by Henry Kuttner 
“The Empress of Mars” by Ross Rocklynne 
“Man of Two Worlds” by Bryce Walton

Planetary Adventures

KUTTNER, HENRY

Walton, Bryce

ANDERSON, POUL.

DMR Books

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