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Fantastic Stories Presents the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #2 - A Positronic Book
Paperback
Series: Positronic Super Pack, Book 20
ISBN13: 9781515406211
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Apr 12 2016
Pages: 526
Weight: 1.68
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Galaxy Science Fiction changed the direction of modern science fiction, and this substantial Super Pack gathers more than five hundred pages of the stories that helped define its legacy.
Edited in its classic years by H. L. Gold, Galaxy Science Fiction arrived in 1950 and quickly became one of the essential magazines of the field. Where earlier science fiction magazines often emphasized engineering, hardware, and heroic problem-solving, Galaxy made room for sharper social satire, psychological pressure, literary experimentation, political unease, dark comedy, and strange new forms of speculation. It gave a home to writers who did not always fit comfortably into the dominant modes of Astounding or The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and readers responded with enthusiasm.
In this second Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack, Fantastic Stories Presents brings together another generous collection of classic stories from one of science fiction's defining magazines. Here are tales of alien worlds, failed utopias, social breakdown, future law, grotesque comedy, human adaptation, strange machines, moral paradox, and civilizations pushed beyond their limits. The result is a wide-ranging portrait of mid-century science fiction at its most inventive, restless, and alive.
Included here are:
Dream World by R. A. Lafferty
The Imitation of Earth by James Stamers
Amateur in Chancery by George O. Smith
The Lamps of the Angels by Richard Sabia
Conditionally Human by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Dawningsburgh by Wallace West
Extracts from the Galactick Almanack by Laurence Janifer
Breakdown by Herbert D. Kastle
A Matter of Protocol by Jack Sharkey
Charity Case by Jim Harmon
The Rag and Bone Men by Algis Budrys
Pick a Crime by Richard R. Smith
Shatter the Wall by Sydney Van Scyoc
Always a Qurono by Jim Harmon
Subject to Change by Ron Goulart
Sales Talk by Con Blomberg
The Big Engine by Fritz Leiber
Accidental Flight by F. L. Wallace
The World That Couldn't Be by Clifford D. Simak
Solid Solution by James Stamers
With These Hands by C. M. Kornbluth
A Fall of Glass by Stanley R. Lee
Sordman the Protector by Tom Purdom
Jamieson by Bill Doede
The Music Master of Babylon by Edgar Pangborn
The Defenders by Philip K. Dick
A substantial single-volume collection, Fantastic Stories Presents the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #2 is ideal for readers of classic science fiction, Golden Age and post-Golden Age SF, vintage magazine fiction, space adventure, social science fiction, and historically important speculative literature. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.
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