The Great Science Fiction Series Author:Frederik Pohl (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Joseph Olander (Editor) The Great Science Fiction Series: stories from the best of the series from 1944 to 1980 by twenty all-time favorite writers — Anthology of Science Fiction stories, introductions and essays. — The series has long been a hallmark of popular fiction but nowhere has it been of more importance than in the field of ... more »science fiction. Ever since the time of Edgar Rice Burroughs and his John Carter of Mars series, the science fiction series has become synonymous with the development, style and range of science fiction itself.
This giant volume contains the biggest post-World War II names in science fiction and selections from the twenty-two series that, in most cases, made them famous. Also included are headnotes in which the authors themselves discuss how the series came into being, what it meant to the authors' careers, plus glimpses into behind-the-scenes stores of the time.« less