Comments on: Astounding Years 30–37 BC:* Street & Smith http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/11/astounding-years-3037-bc-street-smith/ Frederik Pohl Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:40:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Johnny Pez http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/11/astounding-years-3037-bc-street-smith/#comment-10738 Johnny Pez Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:36:22 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1625#comment-10738 Sam Moskowitz got Tremaine's brother to admit that he wrote most of the "Warner Van Lorne" stories. BTW, you can find one at Project Gutenberg - "Wanted - 7 Fearless Engineers" from the February 1939 <i>Amazing</i>, at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26941. Jim, your issue was the September 1935 issue. The stories you mention are "The Blue Infinity" by John Russell Fearn, and "Earth Minus" by Donald Wandrei. Sam Moskowitz got Tremaine’s brother to admit that he wrote most of the “Warner Van Lorne” stories. BTW, you can find one at Project Gutenberg – “Wanted – 7 Fearless Engineers” from the February 1939 Amazing, at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26941.

Jim, your issue was the September 1935 issue. The stories you mention are “The Blue Infinity” by John Russell Fearn, and “Earth Minus” by Donald Wandrei.

]]> By: Jim Meadows http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/11/astounding-years-3037-bc-street-smith/#comment-10042 Jim Meadows Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:51:12 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1625#comment-10042 My late father's science fiction collection included a run of Astounding back to his adolescence --- but only one issue was from the Tremaine period. It was a battered, coverless issue, which I've recently determined to be from 1935. I was reading my dad's old magazines a lot during my own adolescence, and that 1935 Astounding fascinated me. There were two stories that remain in my memory. One was "The Blue Infinity", "a novel in which the earth moves", an example of the gracelessly written, yet fast-moving galaxy-busting science fiction that I think entertained a lot of Astounding readers. Reading it in the 1970s, I thought it was a hoot. On the other hand, I was quite impressed with another story just as fecklessly ambitious, but which actually seemed more credible to me. While I cannot remember the pseudo-science that it used, I do remember that the story ended with everything on earth (perhaps beyond) slowly softening into some sort of molecular mush. I believe in this case, the earth was NOT saved in the nick of time. I loved this story. My late father’s science fiction collection included a run of Astounding back to his adolescence — but only one issue was from the Tremaine period. It was a battered, coverless issue, which I’ve recently determined to be from 1935. I was reading my dad’s old magazines a lot during my own adolescence, and that 1935 Astounding fascinated me.

There were two stories that remain in my memory. One was “The Blue Infinity”, “a novel in which the earth moves”, an example of the gracelessly written, yet fast-moving galaxy-busting science fiction that I think entertained a lot of Astounding readers. Reading it in the 1970s, I thought it was a hoot.

On the other hand, I was quite impressed with another story just as fecklessly ambitious, but which actually seemed more credible to me. While I cannot remember the pseudo-science that it used, I do remember that the story ended with everything on earth (perhaps beyond) slowly softening into some sort of molecular mush. I believe in this case, the earth was NOT saved in the nick of time. I loved this story.

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