Astounding — The Tremaine Years, 1934-5
The first book in an ambitious republication of the Hugo Award winning writer, editor comic book and radio script author.
Most of the stories in this volume have never been reprinted since their original publications. This collection of novellas and novelettes is an essential book that belongs on every science fiction readers shelf.
Gold’s SF stories are “practically required reading … the narrative level is high.” —The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Gold’s work is “way up there at the top of the literary pile.” —Galaxy
“People have forgotten how much Gold had to do, as a writer, with the growth of science fiction[...] [He possesses] an alert and unusual mind investing old ideas with new insights and adds an extra dimension of idea into a deceptively simple story line.” —Fantastic Universe
“Ususual tales, rare collectors items.” —Indianapolis Star
Among the stories readers will find are:
“Inflexure,” in which the passing of a solar system through our own, leads to unexpected, even inconceivable, and terrifying results.
“Avatar,” a tale of genetic engineering and a man who redesigns a human being to be a god – but overlooks a very obvious fact.
“Gold,” the story of a man who made everything so cheaply everything could be purchased for nothing and there was no need for greed – but what of the greedy?
And three more “top-rank stories.” —Analog/Astounding