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Host: Leonard Nimoy
 

An Interactive Time Capsule of Sci-Fi Masterpieces

Your space ship crashes in a desolate, alien landscape...and, as you begin to explore the planet surface, you unearth a cache of treasures from the Masters of Science Fiction!

Leonard Nimoy is your host and master curator for this fully interactive, hyperlinked archive of rare science fiction delights from the 1950's and 1960's. With one full hour of video clips featuring Nimoy and sci-fi's leading experts and a vibrant selection of original pulp cover art, this entertaining collection is an unequaled opportunity to experience the rich creativity and vivid imagery of these sci-fi gems as never before.

Hallo, I am Leonard Nimoy, master curator of the Science Fiction Archives.

I guess you are curious about this craft. It is unique, capable of traveling about space and time. In fact you might say that the technology of this ship and the contents found within are limited only by your imagination. I use the ship to gather science fiction treasures from earlier eras.  Back in the cargo area you fin artifacts and displays which we just retrieved to transport to our permanent vicinity. There is also information to help you find our main archive located elsewhere on this planet. You can search through the ship if you'd like, I'll guide you as we explore. Shall we go? Science fiction is the search for an understanding to what it means tobe human and a definition of our place in the universe. It allows the concerns of our world to be viewed from a distance. By doing so we gain new insights and perspectives into our own humanity. Science fiction is often compared to the detective story because the heart of its appeal is often the solution to our mystery. It is here in the unknown that we often find answers to our own problems.

Frank Munsey is credited with inventing the pulp magazines, but only in the post World War time science fiction boomed. Writers like Wells wrote for pulps in the times before television. … The Science Fiction Achievement Award, the Hugo, is named in tribute to Hugo Gernsback, the man who not only invented the term "science fiction" but first defined it as a genre. Hugo awards were first awarded in 1953.

H. P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, John Campbell, E.E. Smith are introduced as writers who's works were published in the science fiction magazine "Astounding Science Fiction". L. Sprague Ducamp, Lester del Ray, Theodor Sturgeon and Robert A. Heinlein also appear in "Astounding science fiction" which began publication in 1930. L. Ron Hubbard's first article on Dianetics as well as Frank Herberts first two "Dune" novels appeared in its pages. George Slusser is the author of some 30 books of science fiction, he also serves as the director of the Eaton program of the University of California which houses the largest collection of science fiction in the world. Kelly Freas, who designed the astronaut's shoulder patch, is science fiction's most popular artist. He created hundred's of covers for dozen's of book publishers and won 10 Hugo awards for best professional artist.

Rim of Space, Mission to a Star and many, many other science fiction stories are introduced and summarized. Just to mention a few: L. Arch (Rachel Cosgrove Payes) "The Man with Three Eyes", Manly Wellman "Giants From Eternity", George Henry Smith "Druid's World", Stanton Coblentz "The Day The Earth Stopped", Murray Leinster "City on the Moon", Donald Wollheim "Across Time", Wallace West "Lords of Atlantis", Manly Bannister "Conquest of Earth" and many, many other works are found in the Science Fiction Archive. Robert Silverbergs and Poul Anderson works can be read here and Frank Belknap Long's.

A detailed history of the authors and their works and of science fiction as a whole is shortly summarized and personal statements added. 

VOLUME 1:

Jules Verne

 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

 A Journey to the Center of the Earth

 From the Earth to the Moon

 Round the Moon

H. G. Wells

 The War of the Worlds

 The Island of Dr. Moreau

 The Time Machine

 The First Men in the Moon

Mary Shelley

 Frankenstein

Bram Stoker

 Dracula

Robert Louis Stevenson

 Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde

Edgar Allan Poe

 22 Stories and Poems

VOLUME 2:

Paul Anderson

 Star Ways

Murray Leinster (known as William F. Jenkins)

 City on the Moon

David Osborn (known as Robert Silverberg)

 Aliens from Space

A. Bertram Chandler

 The Rim of Space

George Henry Smith

 Druid's World

Frank Belknap Long

 Mission to a Star

Stanton Coblentz

 The Day the World Stopped

Donald Wollheim (known as David Grinnell)

 Across Time

Wallace West

 Lords of Atlantis

Manly Banister

 Conquest of Earth

Manly Wade Wellman

 Giants from Eternity

E. L. Arch (known as Rachel Cosgrove Payes)

 The Man with Three Eyes