Before the Golden Age

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Title Before the Golden Age
Author Isaac Asimov
Country USA
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction anthology
Publisher Doubleday
Released April 1974
Media type Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages 986
ISBN 0385024193

Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s is an anthology of 25 science fiction stories from 1930s pulp magazines edited by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in April 1974.

The stories were selected by Asimov, and the main selection criterion was the degree to which they influenced him when he was growing up in the 1930s. The prefatory material and individual introductions to the stories fill in the details about the early life of the child prodigy, which effectively makes the volume a first stab at an autobiography. The anthology also includes "Big Game", a story written by Asimov in 1941 and never sold.

The stories collected in the anthology, although they range in quality from embarrassing to very good, are of a kind rarely anthologized and provide a unique historical and cultural retrospective of the genre.

The anthology was first published as a large hardcover in 1974 and re-issued as three smaller paperbacks the following year. As of 2006, it is out of print.

Contents

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[edit] 1931

[edit] 1932

  • "Tumithak of the Corridors" by Charles R. Tanner
  • "The Moon Era" by Jack Williamson

[edit] 1933

  • "The Man Who Awoke" by Laurence Manning
  • "Tumithak in Shawm" by Charles R. Tanner

[edit] 1934

[edit] 1935

[edit] 1936

[edit] 1937

[edit] 1938

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