Fantasy Advertiser, April, 1951 [Arthur C. Clarke, "Space Travel in Fact and Fiction". Along with a black and white illustration of "Vomoon Maid". )
Glendale, California: Fantasy Advertiser, 1951. Octavo. Item #032087
Fifth anniversary issue. 30 pages. Arthur C. Clarke's lecture was given before the British Interplanatory Society on April 1, 1950. Here he speaks of the early writing about antigravitation in J. Atterley's "Voyage to the Moon" (1827). He notes that Atterley's real name was that of Professor George Tucker (one of his students at the University of Virginia was Edgar Allen Poe). When John W. Campbell, Jr. became the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, it became more scientific and less astoundging. He also notes that the idea of space station was too often neglected by early writers of science fiction; after all, they wanted to get to the distant planet without considering the need for any kind of substation. He asks the question: what will the early tales about interplanetary space travel take place, will they become extinct. Staple bound in pictoeial wraps lettered and decorated in black and white, one small closed edge tear to page 26. Along with The Mutant Maiden known as a Vomoon Maid in black and white tipped onto printed cover subject Curved Space.
Price: $100.00