About Us

This site is dedicated to my mother, Janet. She spent most of her life reading, and was well on her way to reading every book ever written. She read the classics of course, but I remember these science fiction books as among her favorites, and they were always plentiful in our house. Most of these are from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. My mom had monthly subscriptions to Galaxy, Analog, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Amazing, Fantastic, If, and Astounding Science Fiction. She read and kept them all.

When my father died and we sold the house, these books, which had been stored for many years, came to light. The artwork is so beautiful, we couldn’t bear to throw them away. With titles like “War With the Gizmos”, “Mankind on the Run”, “Beyond the Beyond”, Nine Tomorrows”, and “The Martian Missile”, and headlines like “The deadly berserker worlds were loose again—and ready to destroy all life”, and “Two reckless men look for a planet to conquer—and stumble into the hell-hole of the galaxy”, and “The deadly vapors had experimented with animals—now they knew how to kill men.”, or “A Madcap Blonde and her Reckless Lover Challenge a World of Rollicking Chaos”, well, it was hard to part with them.

Many of these were written and illustrated in the days before we landed on the Moon, and our perception of aliens, outer space and the future was quite astounding. There was no Photoshop then, just pen, ink and lots of talent, by artists like Kley, Eberle, van Dongen, Finlay, Wood, Kelly Freas, Emsh, James Odbert, Gaughan, and others. I included many examples of the art that was inside the magazines, mostly in black and white, but still incredible.

Writers like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, Frank Herbert, Poul Anderson, Clifford D. Simak, Harry Harrison, Fritz Lieber, C.M. Kornbluth, Robert Heinlein, Damon Knight, Harlan Ellison, Christopher Anvil, Philip K. Dick, L. Sprague de Camp, and Aldous Huxley contributed regularly to the monthly magazines.