If you had to pick one

What was the most 1970s book cover back in the 1970s?

Because My Tears are Delicious to You 6: Adventures in Time & Space edited by Healy & McComas

I know where I bought this – Waterloo Square – but I cannot recall if the Coles had opened yet or if the little bookstore whose name I have forgotten was still there, as yet uncrushed by giant chains and the grim realities of bookselling.



I am sure this would have been a major part of my teen years if it wasn't quite so long. Thousand page books are awkward to tote around. It must have been very impressive when it first appeared in 1946; there would not have been many books like it, whereas I started reading SF during a golden age of anthologies and collections.

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Until I began listening to Escape

I didn't really get what a high profile China had in some American minds in the first half of the 20th century.

Where in Canada

Did James White live, when he lived in Canada?