In 1983, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach published Over My Shoulder, a look back at the spate of science fiction small presses created after World War II. Before then science fiction was a creature of magazines. Even including a handful of anthologies of short stories, the mainstream American press averaged less than one hardcover book of science fiction a year, while paperbacks were virtually unknown. Imagine the plight of fans in that era. Missing an issue – often making their way erratically to newsstands – meant losing those stories forever. Missing a part of a serial ruined the entire saga. A tiny market in used copies existed but pulp magazines were easy targets for wartime paper drives; their numbers dwindled annually.
In the prosperity of the late 1940s, a number of entrepreneurs saw a wide-open market niche. Just as in the early days of automobiles and software, people could participate in a new and growing industry pretty much from their homes, with enough seed money generated just by hitting on their friends.
Eshbach was one of those prescient fans. He was also a printer and became a co-founder of Fantasy Press. He knew the field and everybody in the field – not hard in the days when no more than a couple of hundred core fans and professionals dominated it – and was in perfect position to recontact all the remaining founders and plumb their memories and records. Most were still alive four decades later. Eshbach himself was one of the elders yet was only 73 when he wrote his book.
The last chapter, titled “The Books They Published,” is a try at a comprehensive account of 27 of these small presses (including a few prewar fantasy-oriented publishers), with each firm’s output listed in chronological order and size of printing. Marty Greenberg, who retained all the paperwork, personally provided the information from Gnome Press. Eshbach’s is the ur source. Everybody who wrote about Gnome later copied it faithfully.
In 1991, Jack L. Chalker and Mark Owings released a “revised and enlarged” – much revised and greatly enlarged – edition of The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Critical and Bibliographic History. For Gnome they kept the order – sliding in George O. Smith’s Pattern for Conquest, which somehow got left off Eshbach’s list – and added a great many small details on printings, bindings, variants, and the like that are available nowhere else.
That’s it. Other sources give information about a few books here and there, but nobody quibbles about the publication order.
Which is wrong. No deep dive into obscure records is necessary. The barest familiarity with the books is all that’s needed. Martin Greenberg’s fourth Adventures in Science Fiction anthology, Travelers of Space, could not possibility precede Martin Greenberg’s third Adventures in Science Fiction anthology, Journey Into Infinity. The fourth Robert E. Howard Conan book, The Coming of Conan, could not possibility precede the third Robert E. Howard Conan book King Conan.
As an obsessive collector/historian I could not let this stand. There had to be objective ways of confirming the order. I finally found four.
- Library of Congress registration date. Back in the 1940s, all legitimate publishers sent two copies of their new titles to the Library of Congress to officially register their date of publication. Registration is a step further than just copyrighting and gives greatly legal protections. All the registrations were compiled in massive volumes called Catalogs of Copyright Entries. Today the volumes have been scanned for Google Books. Not every title Gnome published was new and a few somehow missed registration. The record is still more than 90% complete.
- Date of first newspaper mention. The Internetgifted historians with newspaper scans, tens of thousands of old newspaperssearchable by keywords collected in massive databases. Books were major mediathen. Newspapers ran announcements of forthcoming books as well as reviews ofnewly released books. Unexpectedly, many small cities and towns publishedcontinual updates of new books bought by their libraries. Almost every Gnomebook sooner or later got a mention.
- Date of first magazine review. Another massive sourceof information is the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (isfdb.org). Allf&sf fans should become familiar with the incredible depth and breadth ofdata crowdsourced there. Among the entries are the books in science fictionmagazine review columns. These tend to lag behind newspaper mentions, asmagazines have longer lead times, but again are almost complete sources forGnome reviews.
- The Gnome books themselves. As did most smallpresses, Gnome advertised itself on its dust jackets, mostly on what istechnically called the back panel, the part of the book you see when you flipover from the front panel, the book cover. (Sometimes also helpful is the rearflap, the section of the dust jacket folded over the end of the book.) Bymeticulously recording which books are shown and which are not, one can createa time function of the order in which the books were released, the books thathave sold out, and the books that were reprinted or rebound. There were 41distinct back panels on the 86 titles, several found only on later variants.
I discovered other, albeit more limited, resources as well. Early fanzines devoted many pages to the new presses. Gnome issued catalogs of books somewhat irregularly but with critical information. Kirkus Reviews, a periodical aimed at libraries, mentioned 28 Gnome titles and their announced release dates. Specialized author bibliographies, histories, memoirs, and biographies yielded dates. Booksellers sometimes add detail to their listings. Other dribs and drabs of data came my way over years of searching.
The four main date sources all correlate almost perfectly with one another. The other sources fit right in. They do not match the Eshbach listing. I used them to create a wholly new publication order.
No one else has done this. I’m constantly astonished that this is new territory, considering that no other genre has more rabid fan historians than f&sf. Somehow I’ve opened up a niche in genre history that has gone entirely unexplored.
Many questions remain unanswered. Half a dozen pairs of books were registered on the same date. The two Talbot Munday books, being reprints of someone else’s copyrighted work, were not registered. Neither, bizarrely, was Robert Silverberg’s probably contemporaneous Starman’s Quest, which as a new work definitely should have been. The last book, E. B. Cole’s The Philosophical Corps, has a whole series of possible dates. Nevertheless, this listing is my best attempt to reconcile the known with the unknown. It forms the basis for all the other new bibliographical information that I’ve compiled and will be rolling out on this site.
# | Author | Title | Pub. Date | Back Panel | Copyright Reg. | 1st Newspaper | 1st Review |
1 | L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt | The Carnelian Cube | 1948 | 1 | 11/1/1948 | 12/5/1948 | 2,3/1949 |
2 | Frank Owen | The Porcelain Magician | 1948 | 2 | 2/20/1949 | 3/9/1949 | 7/1949 |
3 | Nelson Bond | The Thirty-First of February | 1949 | 3 | 6/18/1949 | 7/3/1949 | Aut/1949 |
4 | George O. Smith | Pattern for Conquest | 1949 | 4 | 11/16/1949 | 1/2/1950 | 3/1950 |
5 | Robert A. Heinlein | Sixth Column | 1949 | 5 | 12/7/1949 | 1/14/1950 | 1/1950 |
6 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | Men Against the Stars | 1950 | 6,19 | 3/20/1950 | 4/2/1950 | 7/1950 |
7 | L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt | The Castle of Iron | 1950 | 7 | 7/1/1950 | 7/31/1950 | 11/1950 |
8 | William Gray Beyer | Minions of the Moon | 1950 | 8 | 7/15/1950 | 9/2/1950 | 11/1950 |
9 | Robert E. Howard | Conan the Conqueror | 1950 | 9 | 10/17/1950 | 11/30/1950 | 1/1951 |
10 | Clifford D. Simak | Cosmic Engineers | 1950 | 10 | 11/25/1950 | 1/7/1951 | 1/1951 |
11 | Isaac Asimov | I, Robot | 1950 | 11 | 12/20/1950 | 1/7/1951 | 4/1951 |
12 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | Journey to Infinity | 1951 | 12,21 | 1/3/1951 | 1/27/1951 | 4/1951 |
13 | Raymond F. Jones | Renaissance | 1951 | 13 | 4/15/1951 | 5/3/1951 | 8/1951 |
14 | L. Ron Hubbard | Typewriter in the Sky and Fear | 1951 | 14 | 5/15/1951 | 7/15/1951 | 8/1951 |
15 | Will Stewart | Seetee Ship | 1951 | 15 | 7/15/1951 | 7/15/1951 | 11/1951 |
16 | Isaac Asimov | Foundation | 1951 | 16,27 | 9/15/1951 | 10/14/1951 | 2/1952 |
17 | Lewis Padgett | Tomorrow and Tomorrow/The Fairy Chessmen | 1951 | 16 | 12/1/1951 | 12/16/1951 | 1/27/1952 |
18 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | Travelers of Space | 1951 | 17,21 | 1/3/1952 | 2/10/1952 | 5/1952 |
19 | Robert E. Howard | The Sword of Conan | 1952 | 18 | 4/1/1952 | 4/27/1952 | 11/1952 |
20 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | Five Science Fiction Novels | 1952 | 19 | 4/1/1952 | 5/15/1952 | 8/1952 |
21 | Arthur C. Clarke | Sands of Mars | 1952 | 20,27,37 | 4/15/1952 | 6/22/1952 | 9/1952 |
22 | A. E. van Vogt | The Mixed Men | 1952 | 20 | 5/1/1952 | 5/30/1952 | 9/1952 |
23 | Lewis Padgett | Robots Have No Tails | 1952 | 20 | 5/15/1952 | 6/20/1952 | 10/1952 |
24 | Clifford D. Simak | City | 1952 | 20 | 5/15/1952 | 6/22/1952 | 10/1952 |
25 | Isaac Asimov | Foundation and Empire | 1952 | 21,32,39 | 9/15/1952 | 9/21/1952 | 3/1953 |
26 | Leigh Brackett | The Starmen | 1952 | 21 | 11/15/1952 | 11/2/1952 | 1/1953 |
27 | C. L. Moore | Judgment Night | 1952 | 21 | 12/15/1952 | 12/28/1952 | 4/1953 |
28 | Robert E. Howard | King Conan | 1953 | 21 | 3/2/1953 | 4/8/1954 | 10/1953 |
29 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | The Robot and the Man | 1953 | 22 | 3/15/1953 | 5/31/1953 | 8/1953 |
30 | Hal Clement | Iceworld | 1953 | 23 | 4/15/1953 | 7/8/1953 | 8/1953 |
31 | Arthur C. Clarke | Against the Fall of Night | 1953 | 23 | 4/15/1953 | 7/8/1953 | 8/1953 |
32 | Wilmar H. Shiras | Children of the Atom | 1953 | 23 | 5/15/1953 | 6/23/1953 | 9/1953 |
33 | Isaac Asimov | Second Foundation | 1953 | 23 | 5/15/1953 | 6/23/1953 | 9/1953 |
34 | Lewis Padgett | Mutant | 1953 | 24 | 10/20/1953 | 11/21/1953 | 4/1954 |
35 | Jeffrey Logan (ed) | The Complete Book of Outer Space | 1953 | 25 | 10/20/1953 | 12/30/1953 | 5/1954 |
36 | Robert E. Howard | Coming of Conan, The | 1953 | 24 | 10/25/1953 | 2/25/1954 | 2/1954 |
37 | Nat Schachner | Space Lawyer | 1953 | 24 | 11/1/1953 | 12/17/1953 | 4/1954 |
38 | C. L. Moore | Shambleau and Others | 1953 | 24 | 11/1/1953 | 1/6/1954 | 10/1954 |
39 | Arthur C. Clarke | Prelude to Space | 1954 | 26 | 3/10/1954 | 3/14/1954 | 7/1954 |
40 | L. Sprague de Camp | Lost Continents | 1954 | 27 | 3/25/1954 | 6/6/1954 | 9/1954 |
41 | William Morrison | Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars | 1954 | 26 | 7/15/1954 | 7/22/1954 | 11/1954 |
42 | Murray Leinster | The Forgotten Planet | 1954 | 26,27 | 7/21/1954 | 8/27/1954 | 11/1954 |
43 | C. L. Moore | Northwest of Earth | 1954 | 28 | 10/25/1954 | 11/18/1954 | 8/1955 |
44 | Robert E. Howard | Conan the Barbarian | 1954 | 28 | 11/1/1954 | 3/10/1955 | 4/1955 |
45 | Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson | Undersea Quest | 1954 | 26 | 11/25/1954 | 1/15/1955 | 7/1955 |
46 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | All About the Future | 1955 | 28 | 1/15/1955 | 2/27/1955 | 2/1955 |
47 | Groff Conklin (ed) | Science Fiction Terror Tales | 1955 | 29 | 2/15/1955 | 4/27/1955 | 2/1955 |
48 | Jack Williamson & James Gunn | Star Bridge | 1955 | 29 | 3/25/1955 | 6/2/1955 | 10/1955 |
49 | F. L. Wallace | Address: Centauri | 1955 | 29 | 4/25/1955 | 7/16/1955 | 10/1955 |
50 | Andrew North | Sargasso of Space | 1955 | 29 | 5/25/1955 | 8/11/1955 | 9/1955 |
51 | H. Chandler Elliott | Reprieve from Paradise | 1955 | 29 | 7/25/1955 | 9/20/1955 | 12/1955 |
52 | James Gunn | This Fortress World | 1955 | 30 | 10/25/1955 | 12/27/1955 | 2/1956 |
53 | Robert Howard & L. Sprague de Camp | Tales of Conan | 1955 | 29 | 12/5/1955 | 3/21/1956 | 5/1956 |
54 | Andrew North | Plague Ship | 1956 | 31 | 2/5/1956 | 5/5/1956 | 5/1956 |
55 | Arthur K. Barnes | Interplanetary Hunter | 1956 | 31 | 3/15/1956 | 5/7/1956 | 9/1956 |
56 | Judith Merril (ed) | SF: The Year’s Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy | 1956 | 31 | 5/12/1956 | 8/1956 | |
57 | George O. Smith | Highways in Hiding | 1956 | 31 | 7/15/1956 | 12/2/1956 | 11/1956 |
58 | Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson | Undersea Fleet | 1956 | 31 | 9/1/1956 | 12/13/1956 | 6/1957 |
59 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | Coming Attractions | 1957 | 33 | 3/15/1957 | 7/1/1957 | 4/1957 |
60 | James Blish | The Seedling Stars | 1957 | 33 | 4/1/1957 | 4/12/1957 | 4/1957 |
61 | Murray Leinster | Colonial Survey | 1957 | 33 | 4/15/1957 | 5/19/1957 | 9/1957 |
62 | Fritz Leiber | Two Sought Adventure | 1957 | 34 | 5/15/1957 | 8/25/1957 | 10/1957 |
63 | Judith Merril (ed) | SF: ’57: The Year’s Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy | 1957 | 34 | 7/9/1957 | 8/11/1957 | 11/1957 |
64 | Poul Anderson & Gordon Dickson | Earthman’s Burden | 1957 | 34 | 7/25/1957 | 9/19/1957 | 1/1958 |
65 | Bjorn Nyberg & L. Sprague de Camp | The Return of Conan | 1957 | 34 | 8/25/1957 | 10/17/1957 | 6/1958 |
66 | Robert Randall | Shrouded Planet, The | 1957 | 36 | 9/25/1957 | 2/2/1958 | 6/1958 |
67 | Mark Clifton & Frank Riley | They’d Rather Be Right | 1957 | 34 | 10/25/1957 | 1/23/1958 | 4/1958 |
68 | Tom Godwin | The Survivors | 1958 | 36 | 2/25/1958 | 5/12/1958 | 6/1958 |
69 | Robert A. Heinlein | Methuselah’s Children | 1958 | 34,35 | 4/15/1958 | 5/12/1958 | 10/1958 |
70 | Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson | Undersea City | 1958 | 34 | 7/1/1958 | 8/3/1958 | 10/1958 |
71 | Judith Merril (ed) | SF: ’58: The Year’s Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy | 1958 | 36 | 7/15/1958 | 7/27/1958 | 10/1958 |
72 | Talbot Mundy | Tros of Samothrace | 1958 | 36 | 10/29/1958 | 3/1959 | |
73 | Robert Silverberg | Starman’s Quest | 1958 | 36 | 1/24/1959 | 9/1959 | |
74 | Talbot Mundy | Purple Pirate | 1959 | 36 | 4/15/1959 | 2/1960 | |
75 | George O. Smith | The Path of Unreason | 1958 | 38 | 7/25/1959 | 5/7/1959 | 11/1959 |
76 | Judith Merril (ed) | SF: ’59: The Year’s Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy | 1959 | 38 | 6/30/1959 | 11/19/1959 | 11/1959 |
77 | Robert Randall | The Dawning Light | 1959 | 38 | 8/25/1959 | 10/21/1959 | 1/1960 |
78 | Wallace West | Bird of Time, The | 1959 | 38 | 10/25/1959 | 3/18/1960 | 8/1960 |
79 | Robert A. Heinlein | The Menace from Earth | 1959 | 38 | 11/25/1959 | 12/17/1959 | 7/1960 |
80 | Robert A. Heinlein | The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag | 1959 | 38 | 12/25/1959 | 1/19/1960 | 7/1960 |
81 | James A. Schmitz | Agent of Vega | 1960 | 38 | 3/25/1960 | 5/26/1960 | 8/1960 |
82 | Edward E. Smith | The Vortex Blaster | 1960 | 38 | 6/25/1960 | 7/31/1960 | 12/1960 |
83 | Frederik Pohl | Drunkard’s Walk | 1960 | 39 | 11/28/1960 | 3/1961 | |
84 | John W. Campbell | Invaders from the Infinite | 1961 | 39 | 3/15/1961 | 5/4/1961 | 9/1961 |
85 | Edward E. Smith | Gray Lensman | 1961 | 40 | 11/30/1961 | ||
86 | E. B. Cole | The Philosophical Corps | 1962 | 41 | 12/10/1962 | 6/15/1962 | 4/1963 |
In the prosperity of the late 1940s, a number of entrepreneurs saw a wide open market niche. Just as in the early days of automobiles and software, people could participate in a new and growing industry pretty much from their homes, with enough seed money generated just by hitting on their friends.
Eshbach was one of those prescient fans. He was also a printer and became a co-founder of Fantasy Press. He knew the field and everybody in the field – not hard in the days when no more than a couple of hundred core fans and professionals dominated it – and was in perfect position to recontact all the remaining founders and plumb their memories and records. Most were still alive four decades later. Eshbach himself was one of the elders, yet was only 73 when he wrote his book.
The last chapter, titled “The Books They Published,” is a try at a comprehensive account of 27 of these small presses (including a few prewar fantasy-oriented publishers), with each firm’s output listed in chronological order and size of printing. Marty Greenberg, who retained all the paperwork, personally provided the information from Gnome Press. Eshbach’s is the ur source. Everybody who wrote about Gnome later copied it faithfully.
In 1991, Jack L. Chalker and Mark Owings released a “revised and enlarged” – much revised and greatly enlarged – edition of The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Critical and Bibliographic History. For Gnome they kept the order – sliding in George O. Smith’s Pattern for Conquest, which somehow got left off Eshbach’s list – and added a great many small details on printings, bindings, variants, and the like that are available nowhere else.
That’s it. Other sources give information about a few books here and there, but nobody quibbles about the publication order.
Which is wrong. No deep dive into obscure records is necessary. The barest familiarity with the books is all that’s needed. Martin Greenberg’s fourth Adventures in Science Fiction anthology, Travelers of Space, could not possibility precede Martin Greenberg’s third Adventures in Science Fiction anthology, Journey Into Infinity. The fourth Robert E. Howard Conan book, The Coming of Conan, could not possibility precede the third Robert E. Howard Conan book King Conan.
As an obsessive collector/historian I could not let this stand. There had to be objective ways of confirming the order. I finally found four.
- Library of Congress registration date. Back in the 1940s, all legitimate publishers sent two copies of their new titles to the Library of Congress to officially register their date of publication. Registration is a step further than just copyrighting and gives greatly legal protections. All the registrations were compiled in massive volumes called Catalogs of Copyright Entries. Today the volumes have been scanned for Google Books. Not every title Gnome published was new and a few somehow missed registration. The record is still more than 90% complete.
- Date of first newspaper mention. The Internet gifted historians with newspaper scans, tens of thousands of old newspapers searchable by keywords collected in massive databases. Books were major media then. Newspapers ran announcements of forthcoming books as well as reviews of newly released books. Unexpectedly, many small cities and towns published continual updates of new books bought by their libraries. Almost every Gnome book sooner or later got a mention.
- Date of first magazine review. Another massive source of information is the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (isfdb.org). All f&sf fans should become familiar with the incredible depth and breadth of data crowdsourced there. Among the entries are the books in science fiction magazine review columns. These tend to lag behind newspaper mentions, as magazines have longer lead times, but again are almost complete sources for Gnome reviews.
- The Gnome books themselves. As did most small presses, Gnome advertised itself on its dust jackets, mostly on what is technically called the back panel, the part of the book you see when you flip over from the front panel, the book cover. (Sometimes also helpful is the rear flap, the section of the dust jacket folded over the end of the book.) By meticulously recording which books are shown and which are not, one can create a time function of the order in which the books were released, the books that have sold out, and the books that were reprinted or rebound. There were 41 distinct back panels on the 86 titles, several found only on later variants.
I discovered other, albeit more limited, resources as well. Early fanzines devoted many pages to the new presses. Gnome issued catalogs of books somewhat irregularly but with critical information. Kirkus Reviews, a periodical aimed at libraries, mentioned 28 Gnome titles and their announced release dates. Specialized author bibliographies, histories, memoirs, and biographies yielded dates. Booksellers sometimes add detail to their listings. Other dribs and drabs of data came my way over years of searching.
The four main date sources all correlate almost perfectly with one another. The other sources fit right in. They do not match the Eshbach listing. I used them to create a wholly new publication order.
No one else has done this. I’m constantly astonished that this is new territory, considering that no other genre has more rabid fan historians than f&sf. Somehow I’ve opened up a niche in genre history that has gone entirely unexplored.
Many questions remain unanswered. Half a dozen pairs of
books were registered on the same date. The two Talbot Munday books, being
reprints of someone else’s copyrighted work, were not registered. Neither,
bizarrely, was Robert Silverberg’s probably contemporaneous Starman’s Quest,
which as a new work definitely should have been. The last book, E. B. Cole’s The
Philosophical Corps, has a whole series of possible dates. Nevertheless,
this listing is my best attempt to reconcile the known with the unknown. It
forms the basis for all the other new bibliographical information that I’ve
compiled and will be rolling out on this site.
New Order | Author | Title | Pub. Date | Back Panel | Copyright Reg. | 1st Newspaper | 1st Review |
1 | L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt | The Carnelian Cube | 1948 | 1 | 11/1/1948 | 12/5/1948 | 2,3/1949 |
2 | Frank Owen | The Porcelain Magician | 1948 | 2 | 2/20/1949 | 3/9/1949 | 7/1949 |
3 | Nelson Bond | The Thirty-First of February | 1949 | 3 | 6/18/1949 | 7/3/1949 | Aut/1949 |
4 | George O. Smith | Pattern for Conquest | 1949 | 4 | 11/16/1949 | 1/2/1950 | 3/1950 |
5 | Robert A. Heinlein | Sixth Column | 1949 | 5 | 12/7/1949 | 1/14/1950 | 1/1950 |
6 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | Men Against the Stars | 1950 | 6,19 | 3/20/1950 | 4/2/1950 | 7/1950 |
7 | L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt | The Castle of Iron | 1950 | 7 | 7/1/1950 | 7/31/1950 | 11/1950 |
8 | William Gray Beyer | Minions of the Moon | 1950 | 8 | 7/15/1950 | 9/2/1950 | 11/1950 |
9 | Robert E. Howard | Conan the Conqueror | 1950 | 9 | 10/17/1950 | 11/30/1950 | 1/1951 |
10 | Clifford D. Simak | Cosmic Engineers | 1950 | 10 | 11/25/1950 | 1/7/1951 | 1/1951 |
11 | Isaac Asimov | I, Robot | 1950 | 11 | 12/20/1950 | 1/7/1951 | 4/1951 |
12 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | Journey to Infinity | 1951 | 12,21 | 1/3/1951 | 1/27/1951 | 4/1951 |
13 | Raymond F. Jones | Renaissance | 1951 | 13 | 4/15/1951 | 5/3/1951 | 8/1951 |
14 | L. Ron Hubbard | Typewriter in the Sky and Fear | 1951 | 14 | 5/15/1951 | 7/15/1951 | 8/1951 |
15 | Will Stewart | Seetee Ship | 1951 | 15 | 7/15/1951 | 7/15/1951 | 11/1951 |
16 | Isaac Asimov | Foundation | 1951 | 16,27 | 9/15/1951 | 10/14/1951 | 2/1952 |
17 | Lewis Padgett | Tomorrow and Tomorrow/The Fairy Chessmen | 1951 | 16 | 12/1/1951 | 12/16/1951 | 1/27/1952 |
18 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | Travelers of Space | 1951 | 17,21 | 1/3/1952 | 2/10/1952 | 5/1952 |
19 | Robert E. Howard | The Sword of Conan | 1952 | 18 | 4/1/1952 | 4/27/1952 | 11/1952 |
20 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | Five Science Fiction Novels | 1952 | 19 | 4/1/1952 | 5/15/1952 | 8/1952 |
21 | Arthur C. Clarke | Sands of Mars | 1952 | 20,27,37 | 4/15/1952 | 6/22/1952 | 9/1952 |
22 | A. E. van Vogt | The Mixed Men | 1952 | 20 | 5/1/1952 | 5/30/1952 | 9/1952 |
23 | Lewis Padgett | Robots Have No Tails | 1952 | 20 | 5/15/1952 | 6/20/1952 | 10/1952 |
24 | Clifford D. Simak | City | 1952 | 20 | 5/15/1952 | 6/22/1952 | 10/1952 |
25 | Isaac Asimov | Foundation and Empire | 1952 | 21,32,39 | 9/15/1952 | 9/21/1952 | 3/1953 |
26 | Leigh Brackett | The Starmen | 1952 | 21 | 11/15/1952 | 11/2/1952 | 1/1953 |
27 | C. L. Moore | Judgment Night | 1952 | 21 | 12/15/1952 | 12/28/1952 | 4/1953 |
28 | Robert E. Howard | King Conan | 1953 | 21 | 3/2/1953 | 4/8/1954 | 10/1953 |
29 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | The Robot and the Man | 1953 | 22 | 3/15/1953 | 5/31/1953 | 8/1953 |
30 | Hal Clement | Iceworld | 1953 | 23 | 4/15/1953 | 7/8/1953 | 8/1953 |
31 | Arthur C. Clarke | Against the Fall of Night | 1953 | 23 | 4/15/1953 | 7/8/1953 | 8/1953 |
32 | Wilmar H. Shiras | Children of the Atom | 1953 | 23 | 5/15/1953 | 6/23/1953 | 9/1953 |
33 | Isaac Asimov | Second Foundation | 1953 | 23 | 5/15/1953 | 6/23/1953 | 9/1953 |
34 | Lewis Padgett | Mutant | 1953 | 24 | 10/20/1953 | 11/21/1953 | 4/1954 |
35 | Jeffrey Logan (ed) | The Complete Book of Outer Space | 1953 | 25 | 10/20/1953 | 12/30/1953 | 5/1954 |
36 | Robert E. Howard | Coming of Conan, The | 1953 | 24 | 10/25/1953 | 2/25/1954 | 2/1954 |
37 | Nat Schachner | Space Lawyer | 1953 | 24 | 11/1/1953 | 12/17/1953 | 4/1954 |
38 | C. L. Moore | Shambleau and Others | 1953 | 24 | 11/1/1953 | 1/6/1954 | 10/1954 |
39 | Arthur C. Clarke | Prelude to Space | 1954 | 26 | 3/10/1954 | 3/14/1954 | 7/1954 |
40 | L. Sprague de Camp | Lost Continents | 1954 | 27 | 3/25/1954 | 6/6/1954 | 9/1954 |
41 | William Morrison | Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars | 1954 | 26 | 7/15/1954 | 7/22/1954 | 11/1954 |
42 | Murray Leinster | The Forgotten Planet | 1954 | 26,27 | 7/21/1954 | 8/27/1954 | 11/1954 |
43 | C. L. Moore | Northwest of Earth | 1954 | 28 | 10/25/1954 | 11/18/1954 | 8/1955 |
44 | Robert E. Howard | Conan the Barbarian | 1954 | 28 | 11/1/1954 | 3/10/1955 | 4/1955 |
45 | Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson | Undersea Quest | 1954 | 26 | 11/25/1954 | 1/15/1955 | |
46 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | All About the Future | 1955 | 28 | 1/15/1955 | 2/27/1955 | 2/1955 |
47 | Groff Conklin (ed) | Science Fiction Terror Tales | 1955 | 29 | 2/15/1955 | 4/27/1955 | 2/1955 |
48 | Jack Williamson & James Gunn | Star Bridge | 1955 | 29 | 3/25/1955 | 6/2/1955 | 10/1955 |
49 | F. L. Wallace | Address: Centauri | 1955 | 29 | 4/25/1955 | 7/16/1955 | 10/1955 |
50 | Andrew North | Sargasso of Space | 1955 | 29 | 5/25/1955 | 8/11/1955 | 9/1955 |
51 | H. Chandler Elliott | Reprieve from Paradise | 1955 | 29 | 7/25/1955 | 9/20/1955 | 12/1955 |
52 | James Gunn | This Fortress World | 1955 | 30 | 10/25/1955 | 12/27/1955 | 2/1956 |
53 | Robert Howard & L. Sprague de Camp | Tales of Conan | 1955 | 29 | 12/5/1955 | 3/21/1956 | 5/1956 |
54 | Andrew North | Plague Ship | 1956 | 31 | 2/5/1956 | 5/5/1956 | 5/1956 |
55 | Arthur K. Barnes | Interplanetary Hunter | 1956 | 31 | 3/15/1956 | 5/7/1956 | 9/1956 |
56 | Judith Merril (ed) | SF: The Year’s Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy | 1956 | 31 | 5/12/1956 | 8/1956 | |
57 | George O. Smith | Highways in Hiding | 1956 | 31 | 7/15/1956 | 12/2/1956 | 11/1956 |
58 | Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson | Undersea Fleet | 1956 | 31 | 9/1/1956 | 12/13/1956 | 6/1957 |
59 | Martin Greenberg (ed) | Coming Attractions | 1957 | 33 | 3/15/1957 | 7/1/1957 | 4/1957 |
60 | James Blish | The Seedling Stars | 1957 | 33 | 4/1/1957 | 4/12/1957 | 4/1957 |
61 | Murray Leinster | Colonial Survey | 1957 | 33 | 4/15/1957 | 5/19/1957 | 9/1957 |
62 | Fritz Leiber | Two Sought Adventure | 1957 | 34 | 5/15/1957 | 8/25/1957 | 10/1957 |
63 | Judith Merril (ed) | SF: ’57: The Year’s Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy | 1957 | 34 | 7/9/1957 | 8/11/1957 | 11/1957 |
64 | Poul Anderson & Gordon Dickson | Earthman’s Burden | 1957 | 34 | 7/25/1957 | 9/19/1957 | 1/1958 |
65 | Bjorn Nyberg & L. Sprague de Camp | The Return of Conan | 1957 | 34 | 8/25/1957 | 10/17/1957 | 6/1958 |
66 | Robert Randall | Shrouded Planet, The | 1957 | 36 | 9/25/1957 | 2/2/1958 | 6/1958 |
67 | Mark Clifton & Frank Riley | They’d Rather Be Right | 1957 | 34 | 10/25/1957 | 1/23/1958 | 4/1958 |
68 | Tom Godwin | The Survivors | 1958 | 36 | 2/25/1958 | 5/12/1958 | 6/1958 |
69 | Robert A. Heinlein | Methuselah’s Children | 1958 | 34,35 | 4/15/1958 | 5/12/1958 | 10/1958 |
70 | Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson | Undersea City | 1958 | 34 | 7/1/1958 | 8/3/1958 | 10/1958 |
71 | Judith Merril (ed) | SF: ’58: The Year’s Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy | 1958 | 36 | 7/15/1958 | 7/27/1958 | 10/1958 |
72 | Talbot Mundy | Tros of Samothrace | 1958 | 36 | 10/29/1958 | 3/1959 | |
73 | Robert Silverberg | Starman’s Quest | 1958 | 36 | 1/24/1959 | 9/1959 | |
74 | George O. Smith | The Path of Unreason | 1958 | 38 | 7/25/1959 | 5/7/1959 | 11/1959 |
75 | Talbot Mundy | Purple Pirate | 1959 | 36 | 4/15/1959 | 2/1960 | |
76 | Judith Merril (ed) | SF: ’59: The Year’s Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy | 1959 | 38 | 6/30/1959 | 11/19/1959 | 11/1959 |
77 | Robert Randall | The Dawning Light | 1959 | 38 | 8/25/1959 | 10/21/1959 | 1/1960 |
78 | Wallace West | Bird of Time, The | 1959 | 38 | 10/25/1959 | 3/18/1960 | 8/1960 |
79 | Robert A. Heinlein | The Menace from Earth | 1959 | 38 | 11/25/1959 | 12/17/1959 | 7/1960 |
80 | Robert A. Heinlein | The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag | 1959 | 38 | 12/25/1959 | 1/19/1960 | 7/1960 |
81 | James A. Schmitz | Agent of Vega | 1960 | 38 | 3/25/1960 | 5/26/1960 | 8/1960 |
82 | Edward E. Smith | The Vortex Blaster | 1960 | 38 | 6/25/1960 | 7/31/1960 | |
83 | Frederik Pohl | Drunkard’s Walk | 1960 | 39 | 11/28/1960 | 3/1961 | |
84 | John W. Campbell | Invaders from the Infinite | 1961 | 39 | 3/15/1961 | 5/4/1961 | 9/1961 |
85 | Edward E. Smith | Gray Lensman | 1961 | 40 | 11/30/1961 | ||
86 | E. B. Cole | The Philosophical Corps | 1962 | 41 | 12/10/1962 | 6/15/1962 | 4/1963 |