Monthly Archives: September 2018

Happy Birthday, Raymond J. Healy

Note to self:  Make sure you hit Publish before going on to something else.

Editor Raymond J. Healy was born on yesterday’s date, September 21, in 1907.  He passed away in 1997.  Healy is remembered as the co-editor (with J. Francis McComas) of the massive anthology Adventures in Time and Space (1946).  It’s a doorstopper of a book (~1000 pages) containing a number of stories by people who are now legends in the field, such as Henry Kuttner, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, along with other writers to whom time has not been so kind, including Harry Bates, P. Schuyler MIller, and Ross Rocklynne.

Unfortunately there’s no electronic edition.  However, if you want to read some great science fiction from the 1930s and early 1940s, then this book is a good place to start.

Pre-Campbell SF Challenge: “The Man Who Evolved” by Edmond Hamilton

“The Man Who Evolved”
The Edmond Hamilton Megapack
Wildside Press
ebook $0.55

I haven’t forgotten about this challenge.  I just haven’t had a chance to sit down and write this post.  Work has gotten hairy, so my blogging and general writing has slowed down.

I don’t recall if I first read “The Man Who Evolved” in Isaac Asimov’s anthology Before the Golden Age or in the Ballantine Del Rey collection The Best of Edmond Hamilton.  Not that it really matters.  Both books are worth reading.  I happened to reread it this time in Before the Golden Age.  Fortunately for anyone wanting to read it, it’s available in The Edmond Hamilton Megapack for just fifty-five cents, plus tax.

Mild spoilers to follow.  You have been warned. Continue reading