Science Fiction of the Thirties


Science Fiction of the Thirties is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Damon Knight. It was first published in hardcover by Bobbs-Merrill in January 1976; a book club edition was issued simultaneously by the same publisher together with the Science Fiction Book Club, and a trade paperback edition by Avon Books in March 1977.
The book collects eighteen tales by various authors originally published in the 1930s and exemplifying American magazine science fiction of that decade, together with a foreword and three essays on the period by the editor, and a bibliography. The stories were originally published in Astounding Stories and Amazing Stories, the premier science fiction magazines of the time. The book reproduces period illustrations that accompanied the stories' original appearances by H. W. Wesso, Leo Morey, Paul Orban, Howard V. Brown, Elliott Dold, Jr., Thompson, and Charles Schneeman.

Contents

  • "Foreword"
  • "The Early Years"
  • * "Out Around Rigel"
  • * "The Fifth-Dimension Catapult"
  • * "Into the Meteorite Orbit"
  • * "The Battery of Hate"
  • "The Middle Period"
  • * "The Wall"
  • * "The Lost Language"
  • * "The Last Men"
  • * "The Other"
  • * "The Mad Moon"
  • * "Davey Jones' Ambassador"
  • * "Alas, All Thinking"
  • * "The Time Decelerator"
  • * "The Council of Drones"
  • "The End"
  • * "Seeker of Tomorrow"
  • * "Hyperpilosity"
  • * "Pithecanthropus Rejectus"
  • * "The Merman"
  • * "The Day Is Done"
  • "Bibliography"