Science Fiction of the 30s - Edited by Damon Knight - 1975 The Bobbs-Merrill Company Hardback

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Cover art: Howard V. Brown

Blurb: “This is a marvelous nostalgic trip back to the time when giant ants ruled the universe: when Man fought off extraterrestrial creatures with ray guns: when he made perilous trips to the moon in rocket ships that closely resembled orange crates.

But science fiction of the thirties also included startlingly accurate prophecies: zero population growth, fusion power, ecological developments, com-puters, electro-microscopes and atomic energy from thorium.

On the historical side, one imaginative author predicted Edward VIII's ab-dication, while another pinpointed Pearl Harbor to within a year.

The eighteen stories and novelettes included here represent a wide spectrum of what was even then a vivacious, sen-sitive, healthy genre-rife with humor and pathos, and well larded with melodrama and bathos.

The stories are accompanied by their original illustrations, which will soon make this handsome volume a collector's item.”