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In the Beginning: Tales from the Pulp Era
In the Beginning Tales from the Pulp Era Author:Robert Silverberg SF Grandmaster Robert Silverberg's follow up to the career retrospective Phases of the Moon is a glance back to the earliest days of his career. Included with pulp stories not reprinted in decades will be more of the commentary that made Phases so much more than just a collection.. — The 16 stories contained herein ar... more »e from the golden era of science fiction, and are in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the like-short on character development and plot line, long on action. Each story is preceded by an untitled introduction by Silverberg. Virtually none of these stories were originally published under Silverberg's real name, but instead appeared under a plethora of random pseudonyms shared with many other work-for-hire writers.
Contents:
Introduction (In the Beginning: Tales from the Pulp Era) • essay by Robert Silverberg;
Yokel with Portfolio (1955);
Long Live the Kejwa [variant of Run of Luck] (1956); (variant of Run of Luck)
Guardian of the Crystal Gate (1956);
Choke Chain (1956);
Citadel of Darkness (1957);
Cosmic Kill (1957);
New Year's Eve--2000 A. D. (1957);
The Android Kill (1957);
The Hunters of Cutwold (1957);
Come Into My Brain! (1958);
Castaways of Space (1958);
Exiled From Earth (1958);
Second Start [variant of Re-Conditioned Human] (1959);