THE GOLDEN AGE: A SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY

The Golden Age of science fiction is its adolescence and the magic key that opened the doors to man’s future, to the distant paths of the stars and to the prospects of creation. Its writers have offered impressive and impetuous flights of fancy, inventiveness, original ideas as well as the myths and symbols that form the foundation of today’s Sci-fi. In Golden Age stories, science and technology in human life are dominant and their main symbols were the robot, the spaceship, the alien and time travel. They reflect both man’s need to escape to imaginary worlds and his fear of the uncontrolled course of humanity towards a catastrophic future. This volume anthologizes nine representative short stories by the most important writers of the Golden Age (Jack Williamson, Fletcher Pratt, Manly Wade Wellman, John Taine, H.L. Gold, Eando Binder, John Collier, Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner).