Monday, October 15, 2012

Castles in Space - Michael Dirda

The American Scholar: Castles in Space - Michael Dirda: The other day, while roaming through the book-sale room at a local library, I spotted eight or nine issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. All of them were from the early 1960s, with the muted, matte covers of that era, most of them with illustrations by the late Ed Emsh (whose wife, Carol Emshwiller, is one of the greatest living writers of fantasy and sf). Each digest originally cost 40 cents, but now—50 years later—they were only a quarter apiece, and I bought them all.

Read the rest (especially the final paragraph) at the link.
Hat tip to Todd Mason.

1 comment:

George said...

Great Dirda article! I would have scooped up those MAGAZINE OF F& SF issues, too!