Basic SF Library: Arkham Sampler symposium, 1949

[Extollager]

Go here

The Arkham Sampler #5 (Winter 1949) : Arkham House : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

to see the choices of Sturgeon, van Vogt, Wandrei, Bleiler, & others, for August Derleth's "little magazine." Derleth was trying to spread the popularity of sf in the 1940s.

 

[hitmouse]

Really interesting and it holds up surprisingly well.

I have never heard of S Fowler Wright or his novel The World Below.

 

[Extollager]

That's one I've heard of, & heard of from long ago I think, but never read. Cover art not very enticing!

 

[Vince W]

That is a wonderful booklet. I haven't read all the books mentioned but I was surprised by the number I had given the era this booklet was produced. And the price! Astounding Science Fiction was only twenty-five cents.

 

[Randy M.]

FYI: I believe Stephen Grendon was a pseudonym for August Derleth.

Randy M.