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Hear hear. I was very fond of Tucker's City in the Sea, too.

I enjoyed the movie well enough while it was on the screen, but I was disappointed after the fact. Too many sidelined and sexually exploited female characters (i.e. all of them). And Emma Frost needing to be rescued? Please...

Niven has a whole article on teleportation in his collection All the Myriad Ways. He more discusses the effects on civilization rather than the method, though he expresses effectively the problems with matter beaming a la the Star Trek transporter.

Having gotten to March 1959 in my day-by-day science fact/fiction blog, I'm delighted to find McCaffrey's first story: galacticjourney | A study in contrasts (April 1959 Fantasy & Science Fiction, Part 2; 2-22-1959) Did anyone here discover her in her early period, or did you find her with the...

Of these, I have read Farmer in the Sky, Starman Jones, The star Beast, Citizen of the Galaxy and Have Space Suit- Will Travel. The one I actually have blogged about (as it is my most recent read) is galacticjourney | Farmer in the Sky (11-09-1958) My dad loved the Star Beast, but I couldn't...

My very first review for my day-by-day science fact/fiction blog was Childhood's End: galacticjourney | Childhood's End (10-22-1958) The ending is, indeed, quite spooky. And you're right. 150 pages is more than enough. They are strong, dense pages.

Asimov goes into this episode of his life in some detail in the first volume of his autobiography, "In Memory yet Green."

Thanks for that. No one is a caricature. My wife knows several comic book artists who many revile, but since they've been nice to her, she's conflicted.

I have an entire blog devoted to this journey. I'm currently in March 1959... setting the stage for the 60's. :) You might find some good ideas in there. You might also disagree with me violently (I'm not a big fan of Asimov and really don't like Anderson or Garrett). www.galacticjourney.org

The first science fiction novel I read in one sitting was "Deathworld" by Harry Harrison. I believe I was 11. The second was "Inferno" by Niven/Pournelle.

Ooo! I just read "Man in the Mailbag!" I covered it in this blog post: galacticjourney | Interstellar eavedroppers (April 1959 Galaxy wrap up; 2-08-1959) I thought it was quite good. Dickson is versatile.

I can only recall one of his stories, though I did enjoy it. A piece of reactionary writing. I reviewed it here. I should go back and read the Cyril Judd stuff. In general, I don't remember enjoying the stuff he did with Fred Pohl, though I like Fred Pohl.

I used to really like Fritz Leiber. Pail of Air and The Big Time were both quite good. But this last year (1958), the stuff he turned out was just terrible. Overwritten crap. The Silver Eggheads was the first thing of his I actually couldn't finish. Maybe it's just a phase. I also...

I grew up on the Incomplete Enchanter. I never could get through the Castle of Iron, though, and I definitely remember enjoying the first half of the former book more than the latter. I reviewed Incomplete Enchanter here.

Quite. I even liked his monograph on the Italian front in WWI.

Your project is amazing! It reminds me thematically of my current project--you might consider starting your own, or perhaps guesting on my blog! :) Your anthologies are a little earlier than the current date of my site (1959), but there's never anything wrong with revisiting classics.

Good fantasy has rules, though. The rules may be discoordinate with the rules in our universe, but there must be rules nonetheless. I like good fantasy, and I like good science fiction. The genre I don't like is science fantasy, where something has the trappings of science fiction, but is not...

Agreed. Zelazny set things up very nicely with the first five books. He runs out of ideas and screws it all up with the second five books.

Being well-versed in 50s science fiction, I can tell you that PKD was something special. His stories were a breath of fresh air. There's a reason so many of them have been turned into movies. That said, The Man in the High Castle may be the work of his that I enjoyed the least.

Isaac Asimov's birthday was January 2. In one of his non-fiction articles, he explained that the Earth's perihelion also took place on January 2, and he went on to say that the reason it did so was *because* it was Asimov's birthday. My father wrote Mr. Asimov a letter explaining that Mr...