THE BLACK FLAME . With a New Introduction by Sam Moskowitz

Name: THE BLACK FLAME . With a New Introduction by Sam Moskowitz
Rating: 3.29 (122 reviews)
Author: Weinbaum, Stanley G.
ISBN: 9780964832008

Weinbaum, Stanley G.

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Published by Tachyon Publication, San Francisco, 1995

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Octavo, cloth. First printing of the enlarged edition. This edition restores about 18,000 words excised or edited from the original manuscript. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1221. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 238-41. In 333. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#162033).

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Title: THE BLACK FLAME . With a New Introduction by Sam Moskowitz
Author: Weinbaum, Stanley G.
Publisher: Tachyon Publication, San Francisco
Publication year: 1995
Dust jacket: Dust Jacket Included
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0964832003
ISBN 13: 9780964832008
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller catalogs: Catastrophe Fiction, Future War, Tale of the Future

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. . . the development of the plot turns on character change. The Flame remarks . . . that "to be human is to love and suffer," and that to the "young minds" of sf fandom, was terrifying heresy. The Black Flame was probably the first pulp sf novel in which characters are driven not so much by a need to save the world or perfect the Extra-Cosmic Hamiframis, but by the their intimate personal feelings. It was a genuine achievement that, even posthumously, Weinbaum could get away with such a notion. -The New York Review of Science Fiction

. . . a jewel of a novel from the Golden Age of science fiction. The book bursts with fine detail keenly rendered. - Inner Journeys

. . . I marvel at the sight of Weinbaum heroically hewing modern SF out of a lump of granite, using primitive tools and raw power. Sam Moskowitz's intro is a just-the-facts-ma'am narrative of the struggles endured by Weinabaum to sell this book, which - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

In his short career, Stanley G. Weinbaum revolutionized science fiction. We are still exploring the themes he gave us. How good to have this early work again, and now with the author's complete text. It is not only of great historical interest, it is a colorful, inventive, and exciting story. - Poul Anderson

Stanley G. Weinbaum's name deserves to rank with those of Wells and Heinlein - and no more than a handful of others - as among the great shapers of modern science fiction. Sadly, most of the marvelous works he produced in his all too brief career were in the form of short stories and novelettes, and so are overlooked by many of today's readers. Which is all the more reason to rejoice that Tachyon Publications has brought his novel, The Black Flame, back into print for us to read - and moreover, for the first time, it is published just as Weinbaum wrote it. - Frederik Pohl

During the single year of 1935, Astounding published seven stories by Weinbaum; and in March 1936 . . . his obituary. His entire career had spanned little more than eighteen months, and is the saddest "what might have been" in the whole history of science fiction. - Arthur C. Clarke

Somehow [Weinbaum] had the imagination to envisage wholly alien situations and psychologies and entities, to devise consistent events from wholly alien motives and to refrain from the cheap dramatics in which all adventure-pulpists wallow. - H.P. Lovecraft

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