Ralph Milne Farley

"An Earthman on Venus" (nv) (also as "The Radio Man") © Argosy All-Story Weekly, Jun 1924 novel : 1950, Avon Books ---------------------------------------------- "Faster Than Light" (Cosmos series) © Science Fiction Digest, Jul 1932 Fantasy Magazine, Dec 1934 Perry Rhodan, Ace Books --/ fourth place space sf series --/ wonder award --/ awesome scale --/ rare find Unreal... Simply most unique event in the history of science fiction, the collaboration of the brightest stars in the field, some at the beginning of their career, some at the peak of their powers. The list of writers is shining "all-star" galaxy in itself. The fiction is... well, it's big-scale, full of grand conflict, ridiculous science, unpronounceable names and places, more bang that you ever encountered between soft book covers - testing the limits of reader's imagination and believability. Impossibly hard to find today, the serial spanned the issues of "Science Fiction Digest", and then "Fantasy Magazine" (The installments of the Cosmos round-robin were not printed in the issues themselves but as separately-bound supplements). Personally I liked the "Last Poet" part and the crazy, absolutely delirious space battle extravaganza by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach. Multi-dimensional "Wrongness of Space" anomaly attacks our system, alien menaces and mad scientists pop out of every wrinkle of time and space, flying around (some may say chaotically) in droves, driving the serial to its bang-up finish - incomparable Edmond Hamilton destroying the planets Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus with an atomic disintegrator ray in his "Armageddon in Space". A monumental literary artifact from the "wonder pulps" era, quite enjoyable even to this day. ---------------------------------------------- "Liquid Life" © Thrilling Wonder Stories, Oct 1936 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award --/ rare find "The Radio Man" (nv) (also as "An Earthman on Venus") © Argosy All-Story Weekly, Jun 1924 Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Dec 1939 Strange Worlds, 1952 novel : 1950, Avon Books ----------------------------------------------

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