Decade the 1940's - Brian W. Aldis & Harry Harrison

Decade the 1940's This series of Decade SF anthologies takes as one of its basic premises the fact that SF has changed and is changing all the time .. . It is idle to attempt to sum up the forties, since one of its pleasures is its diversity. For many SF fans, it remains the Golden Age.

For others, the Golden Age was earlier; for others, yet to come. Perhaps it all depends when you start reading. And Now is always as good a time as any' from the Introduction by Brian W. Aldiss, A. E. Van Vogt, Fredric Brown ,Paul Carter, Eric Frank Russell, Isaac Asimov, Hal Clement, Clifford D. Simak, Philip Latham

The stories are gems . . . not all of them familiar even to the addict' Tribune 'There is no denying the power and confidence shown by A. E. Van Vogt in Co-operate — or else! or Isaac Asimov in Reason'

The Decade anthologies present the eighty-year history of science fiction in the most relevant way - by collecting the stories which have gone to make it up. Each volume, complete in itself, takes from a single decade the tales which are best, not only as history, but as entertainment.