Science Fiction Series No. 06 (“When The pdf

Science Fiction Series No. 06 (“When The

More Book Details

Description of the Book:

Adapted from the listing in the online SF Encyclopedia:The Science Fiction Series was a series of eighteen self-covered, side-stapled pamphlets published between 1929 and 1932 by Hugo Gernsback’s Stellar Publishing Corporation, offered for sale by mail order for ten cents each (or six for 50 cents) in advertisements in his magazines, and seemingly edited by him. The pamphlets were either 24 or 28 pages long, and were published without cover illustrations, though the first twelve
Most volumes contained a single novelette, like Jack Williamson and Miles J Breuer’s The Girl from Mars (1929 chapbook), or Manly Wade Wellman’s The Invading Asteroid (1932 chapbook), and in several instances, including these two titles, they constituted their authors’ first book publications. Five volumes in
In Science-Fiction: The Early Years (1990), E.

F. Bleiler speculates that, considering the low quality of most of the series, at least some of these titles may have been rejected submissions to one or another of Gernsback’s magazines. This may have been the case; but the cachet of book publication may well have at the same time helped stimulate some of the contributors into embarking upon
Complete list of the Science Fiction Series (Stellar Publications):No. 1. The Girl From Mars – Miles J. Breuer, M.D. and Jack Williamson (Stellar Publications, 1929)No. 2. The Thought Projector – David H. Keller (Stellar Publications, 1929)No. 3. An Adventure In Venus – Reg Michelmore (Stellar Publications, 1929)No. 4. When The Sun Went Out – Leslie F. Stone (Stellar Publications, 1929)No. 5. The Brain Of The Planet – Lilith Lorraine (Stellar Publications, 1929)No. 6. When The Moon Fell – Morrison Colladay (Stellar Publications, 1929)No. 7. The Thought Stealer – Frank Bourne ; The Mechanical Man – Amelia Reynolds Long (Stellar Publications, 1930)No.

8. The Torch Of Ra – Jack Bradley (Stellar Publications, 1930)No. 9. The Thought Translator – Merab Eberle / The Creation – Milton Mitchell (Stellar Publications, 1930)No. 10. The Elixir – H. W. Higginson (Stellar Publications, 1930)No. 11. The Valley Of The Great Ray – Pansy E. Black (Stellar Publications, 1930)No. 12. The Life Vapor – Clyde Farrar/ Thirty Miles Down – D. D. Sharp (Stellar Publications, 1930)No. 13. The Men From The Meteor – Pansy E. Black (Stellar Publications, 1932)No. 14. The Flight Of The Aerofix – Maurice Renard (Stellar Publications, 1932)No. 15. The Invading Asteroid – Manly Wade Wellman (Stellar Publications, 1932)No. 16. The Immortals Of Mercury – Clark Ashton Smith (Stellar Publications, 1932)No. 17. The Spectre Bullet – Thomas Mack / The Avenging Note – Alfred Sprissler (Stellar Publications, 1932)No. 18. The Ship From Nowhere – Sidney Patzer / The Moon Mirage – Raymond Z. Gallun (Stellar Publications, 1932

• Date: 1929
• Year: 1929
• Book Topics/Themes: Pulps, Pulp Magazines, Science Fiction, Morrison M. Colladay, Charles Morrison Colladay, Hugo Gernsback, Frank R. Paul

An excerpt captured from the PDF book