Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography (A Bantam spectra book) - Softcover

Clarke, Arthur C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553348221 ISBN 13: 9780553348224

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1990

Synopsis

The author recounts how he became interested in science fiction, discusses the influence of Astounding Stories magazine, and looks back on his involvement in science and technology

About this title

From Library Journal:

Scientist and grand master of the genre ( 2001: A Space Odyssey) Clarke has given us a memoir of his youth. It centers on three editors, Harry Bates, F. Orlin Tremaine, and John W. Campbell, who created the magazine now known as Analog (until 1960 it was called Astounding Science Fiction ). Clarke gives his reaction to the writers and illustrators who first aroused his interest in science fiction. The scientific ferment of the 1930s and the 1940s is related to the ideas of the period and to the author's work in rocketry and radar. A sweeping view of popular science and popular fiction.
- Katherine Thorp, St. Louis Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0553348221
• ISBN 13: 9780553348224
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258