Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Second Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: Mark Clifton
    The Second Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: Mark Clifton
    The Second Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: Mark Clifton
    Ebook569 pages678 hours

    The Second Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: Mark Clifton

    By Mark Clifton and Frank Riley

    4/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Mark Clifton (1906–1963) was an American science fiction writer, the co-winner of the first Hugo Award for best novel (for THEY'D RATHER BE RIGHT, written with Frank Riley). This volume assembles some of Clifton's very best work -- including THEY'D RATHER BE RIGHT:

    STAR BRIGHT (1952)
    THE KENZIE REPORT (1953)
    WE'RE CIVILIZED!
    SENSE FROM THOUGHT DIVIDE (1955)
    A WOMAN'S PLACE (1955)
    DO UNTO OTHERS (1958)
    THEY'D RATHER BE RIGHT (1958)
    WHAT NOW, LITTLE MAN? (1959)
    EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN (1960)

    And if you enjoy this volume, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more entries in this great series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classics -- and much, much more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateMay 28, 2014
    ISBN9781479402946
    The Second Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: Mark Clifton

    Related to The Second Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Martian wants Drabbles

      Jul 7, 2022

      Martian is a zine for SF drabbles and the team publish new ones twice a week. Drabbles are very short stories of exactly 100 words (excluding title) and they are tricky to write. Read what’s published here to see how other writers do it. The editoria

      1 min read

    • Article

      A Cosmology Of Monsters

      Jun 17, 2020

      RELEASED 30 JUNE 448 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Shaun Hamill Publisher Titan Books Shaun Hamill’s debut arrives with a fierce buzz and a glowing Stephen King cover quote. That feels apt. A Cosmology Of Monsters may riff heavily on HP Lovecraft’s

      1 min read

    • Article

      Father And Son

      Feb 22, 2023

      Father And Son
      8 min read

    • Article

      Time Capsule

      Feb 23, 2017

      Don’t oversell. Comedy rule No. 1, right there. The person who says, “Hey, guys, listen, this is the funniest story ever!” might as well try to light a fire with damp pasta. Former SURFER editor Drew Kampion understood this perfectly. Some hoodoo had

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Metaluna Mutant

      Aug 11, 2021

      The Metaluna Mutant
      2 min read

    • Article

      Amazing Fantasy 1000

      Oct 5, 2022

      Amazing Fantasy 1000
      2 min read

    • Article

      Prestige Comics: On the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection

      May 27, 2022

      The idea that a citadel of bookishness has fallen to this siege of adolescent fantasia could easily take on outsize importance. The post Prestige Comics: On the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection appeared first on The Millions.

      9 min read

    • Article

      How Choose Your Own Adventures Helped Me Win The Booker Prize

      May 27, 2023

      The hero of a kids’ book doesn’t usually die. In Choose Your Own Adventure books, a children’s series that has sold more than 270m copies and been translated into 40 languages since its launch in 1979, the hero dies multiple times, in unpleasant, une

      5 min read

    • Article

      Total Recall

      Sep 9, 2020

      Total Recall
      2 min read

    • Article

      Also Received

      Apr 21, 2022

      The Burton Dassett UFO Events Of 1923 Richard Rokeby Flying Disk Press, 2020 Pb, 70pp, £5, ISBN 9798560435875 Two decades before the advent of UFOs, mysterious lights were seen moving about above the Warwickshire hills. This phenomenon was observed b

      4 min read

    • Article

      It's Jack-o'-lantern Time!

      Sep 1, 2023

      It's Jack-o'-lantern Time!
      6 min read

    • Article

      Flashback 40

      May 6, 2021

      This month, we celebrate an exciting moment in Games’s history. It was exactly 30 years ago when the magazine made an unexpected return from the dead—or bankruptcy, to be more precise. For that reason, we will be reviewing our four issues out of chro

      5 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Apr 22, 2024

      Books
      6 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jan 27, 2022

      CONTACT US BY POST: PO BOX 1200, WHITSTABLE CT1 9RH, OR E-MAIL SIEVEKING@FORTEANTIMES.COM PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS Although I was very happy to see my two ShukerNature books receive a positive joint review [FT411:65], I have to corr

      7 min read

    • Article

      Success Behind Closed Doors

      Oct 18, 2022

      Who: Henry Fox Talbot Known for: Developing calotype. Why you should know him: Amidst the rise in film photography today, many of us probably take photographs for granted, physical or otherwise. Without the Englishman’s breakthrough with the developm

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Haunted Generation

      Dec 2, 2021

      The Haunted Generation
      6 min read

    • Article

      Also Received

      Jan 5, 2023

      Graeme Milne London Publishing, 2021 Pb, £12.99, 288pp, ISBN 9781914408250 Veteran ghost historian Graeme Milne has published a number of anthologies of Scottish ghosts; this title being an amalgamation of two earlier collections of tales from Aberde

      4 min read

    • Article

      Radio Days

      Feb 2, 2023

      Radio Days
      2 min read

    • Article

      A Marvellous Miracle

      Oct 5, 2022

      A Marvellous Miracle
      2 min read

    • Article

      The If Factor

      Aug 11, 2021

      The If Factor
      3 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Aug 10, 2023

      Reviews
      5 min read

    • Article

      Batmobiles, Bugs Bunny And James Dean’s Jeans: A Day Inside The Warner Bros Top-secret Archive

      Mar 25, 2023

      There is an actual Batcave in Los Angeles, where all the old Batmen live. I can’t tell you where: I signed an NDA. But in the most unlikely neighbourhood, in the most obscure location, lies a giant warehouse where Warner Bros keeps a century’s worth

      6 min read

    • Article

      Doctor Who

      Jan 24, 2024

      Doctor Who
      2 min read

    • Article

      WHAT WERE the Observer’s Books?

      Nov 17, 2021

      In 1937, Warne & Co published The Observer’s Book of British Birds. It was a modest affair but an interesting idea; a book for children (although also accessible to adults) that could be easily carried, to help them make the most of the outdoors. Ove

      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Second Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®

    4/5

    5 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      The Second Golden Age of Science Fiction is a collection of science fiction stories by Mark Clifton who was an American science fiction writer who was first published in 1952. He won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1958 for They’d Rather Be Right which is included in this collection.Like all collections, I enjoyed some of the stories much more than others. I actually wasn’t all that taken with the Hugo winner, much preferring the first story “Star Bright” from 1952 which concerns a father discovering that his young daughter is much brighter than he, in fact, using ESP she has worked out how to time travel and how to travel to other planets. But although she is of a far superior mind, she is still a little girl and how is he going to be able to keep her safe. My other favorite story was “Do Unto Others” (1958), in this short and humorous story, a young man accompanies his strait-laced aunt as she travels to another planet to ensure the aliens are clothed and not walking around naked.Considered an innovator of science fiction his stories are of alien invasion, expanding technology, and space colonization but as he was writing in the 1950s his work gives us insight into what people were thinking about and concerned with at that time. He seemed to feel that advanced technology was something to be feared far more than aliens. The Second Golden Age of Science Fiction was an interesting collection that I enjoyed.

    Book preview

    The Second Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ® - Mark Clifton

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1