Meanwhile, in rasfw

[james_davis_nicoll]

Anthony Nance will reading and reviewing Healy and McComas's Adventures in Time and Space.

Do I need to explain what Adventures in Time and Space is?

On consideration, yes. It's almost old enough to collect social security.

From wikipedia:

Adventures in Time and Space was an anthology of science fiction stories edited by Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas and published in 1946. When it was re-released in 1977 by Ballantine Books, Analog book reviewer Lester del Rey referred to it as a book he often gave to people in order to turn them onto the genre. It is now once again out of print.

The large (997 page) anthology collected numerous stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, which had originally appeared in pulp magazines (mostly Astounding Science Fiction) and are now regarded as classics of science fiction. According to Frederik Pohl, it was "A colossal achievement...the book that started the science-fiction publishing industry!"

Comments

[oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com]

I believe this is also being done on the ASIMOV's discussion board: http://www.asimovs.com/aspnet_forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=3989

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com]

It's the one anthology from that period that stays in my collection. Though I don't know if I could read it again.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I think it's a great candidate for e-book-hood if someone works out the rights. (I would probably buy it again in that format myself!)

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

I would definitely buy it as an ebook. *hope, hope*

[raycun.livejournal.com]

I would like to complain about the poll in the next post - you appear to have broken something.
(Selecting an option brings me to 'Sorry, you are not allowed to see the results of this poll', and clicking 'comment on this post' brings me to an LJ error page.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

The version I deleted or the one I didn't?

[raycun.livejournal.com]

ah, possibly a version you deleted and that was causing the problem.
Current version is working.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I have a copy of that, but I have the reprint.