I managed to get through the first 29 issues of the Astounding Science Fiction golden age in 2011. I started out with an issue a week, and that proved to be too much for me. So I moved to one issue every other week, which seems to be just right.  We began, nearly a year ago,…
One thing this illness has done is it’s made it virtually impossible to read or write. One consequence of this is that I am very far behind in my reading for Episode 29 of my Vacation in the Golden Age. Rather than add to my stress by trying to catch up in the next 5…
If you take a look at the Author Index to the Vacation in the Golden Age, you’ll note that below each author’s name is now a set of links. The links will take you to the entry for the SF Encyclopedia, Internet Speculative Fiction Database, and some kind of official website, respectively. If the item…
Over at AmazingStoriesMag.com, you can find a reprint of Episode 3 of my Vacation in the Golden Age, covering the September 1939 Astounding. If you accidentally showed up to work an hour early this morning because you forgot to turn your clock back, you can fill that hour in the Golden Age. And Episode 27,…
Just a quick note, for those interested, that I have made a minor taxonomy improvement to the Vacation in the Golden Age posts. I have created a Vacation in the Golden Age category in WordPress. Within this category, I have created several subcategories: Episodes, Announcements and Extras. And there is one subcategory within Episodes for…