Sunday, October 25, 2020

Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Super Science Stories, May 1940


This is the second issue of Popular Publications' science fiction pulp, edited by Frederik Pohl. The cover is by an artist I'm not familiar with, Gabriel Mayorga. It seems a little too busy to me, but it's eye-catching, no doubt about that. And the line-up of authors inside is an all-star one: Robert A. Heinlein (writing as Lyle Monroe), Manly Wade Wellman (writing as Gabriel Barclay), James Blish, Raymond Z. Gallun, L. Sprague de Camp, Donald A. Wollheim, Ray Cummings, P. Schuyler Miller, Cyril Kornbluth (writing as S.D. Gottesman), and Willy Ley. Granted, some, if not all, of those stories were probably rejects from ASTOUNDING, but still, that's a pretty impressive group.
 

1 comment:

Spike said...

Quite a lineup. Wellman is one of my favorites though not so much his SF. Heinlein is the best. Blish, de Camp and Kornbluth all delivered consistently. Wish I could read this issue.