828 “ ‘Truth will: Lewis Padgett, “The Proud Robot,” in Padgett, Robots Have No Tails, pp. 34-35.
829 “ ‘The Lybllas: Lewis Padgett, “The World Is Mine,” in Padgett, Robots Have No Tails, pp. 148-149.
830 “ ‘What’s vastened?’: Lewis Padgett, “The Proud Robot,” in Padgett, Robots Have No Tails, p. 29.
831 “ ‘You were: Ibid, p. 48.
832 “This was: Albert Hofmann, LSD, My Problem Child: Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism, and Science (Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1983), p. 14.
833 “All my: A.E. van Vogt, “My Life Was My Best Science Fiction Story,” in Martin H. Greenberg, ed., Fantastic Lives: Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers (Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981), p. 199.
834 “That night: Ibid.
835 “Science-fiction stories: Fredric Brown, “Introduction,” in Brown, Space On My Hands (New York: Bantam, 1953), pp. 1-2.
836 “ ‘I’m an: Fredric Brown, “Paradox Lost,” in Brown, Paradox Lost (New York: Berkley, 1974), pp. 19-20.
837 “ ‘Yow!’ said: Ibid, p. 20.
838 “ ‘We always: Ibid, p. 21.
839 “ ‘Huh? Oh,: Ibid, pp. 22-23.
840 “ ‘Is this: Ibid, p. 25.
841 “ ‘A struthiomimus!’: Ibid, pp. 25-26.
842 “He looked: Ibid, p. 27.
843 “ ‘a throwback: Fritz Leiber, Jr., “Sanity,” in Groff Conklin, ed., Big Book of Science Fiction (New York: Crown, 1950), p. 523.
844 “ ‘the training: Ibid, p. 525.
845 “ ‘For instance: Ibid, p. 527.
846 “ ‘it went: Ibid, p. 528.
847 “ ‘One hundred,’: Ibid, p. 530.
848 “ ‘As if: Ibid.
849 “ ‘For ten: Ibid, p. 531.
850 “ ‘You interested: Ibid, p. 532.
851 “Outwardly, Jack: Lester del Rey, “Kindness,” in Sam Moskowitz, ed., Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction (New York and Cleveland: World, 1965), p. 232.
852 “Homo intelligens: Ibid, pp. 231-232.
853 “ ‘I wonder: Ibid, p. 247.
854 “The first: Murray Leinster, “First Contact,” in John W. Campbell, Jr., ed., The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952), p. 223.
855 “ ‘There was: Ibid, p. 246.
856 the Lesser Magellanic Cloud: in the book version of these stories, The Mixed Men (New York: Gnome, 1952), this is changed to the Greater Magellanic Cloud.
857 “ ‘cold and: A.E. van Vogt, “The Storm,” in Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds., Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, Vol. 5, 1943 (New York: DAW Books, 1981), p. 250.
858 “ ‘Excellency, we: Ibid, p. 243.
859 “pantropy”: this word would not be used in “Sunken Universe,” but would appear in a collection of stories that was united by this idea, and included this story: James Blish, The Seedling Stars (New York: Gnome Press, 1957), p. 8, et passim.
860 “Lopers”: Clifford D. Simak, “Desertion,” in Groff Conklin, ed., Big Book of Science Fiction, p. 416, et passim.
861 “thought symbols: Ibid, p. 420.
862 “He, Fowler: Ibid, p. 422.
863 “ ‘We’re still: Ibid.
864 “ ‘I can’t: Ibid, p. 423.
865 “They were: Chester S. Geier, “Environment,” in Groff Conklin, ed., Omnibus of Science Fiction (New York: Crown, 1952), p. 329.
866 “Watching, Gaynor: Ibid, p. 331.
867 “The machines: Ibid, p. 338.
868 “ ‘The Third: Ibid.
869 “impedimenta of: Ibid, p. 340.
870 “Despite all: A.E. van Vogt, The Weapon Makers, Astounding, March 1943, p. 97.
871 “—God made: A.E. van Vogt, in an unpublished manuscript entitled “Systematic Thought Number Three: Getting Ideas Through Dreaming,” pp. 10-11. The original order of the last two paragraphs is reversed for narrative coherence.
872 “There simply: A.E. van Vogt, World of Null-A, Astounding, August 1945, p. 174.
873 “unintegrated men”: A.E. van Vogt, World of Null-A, Astounding, October 1945, p. 157.
874 “ ‘Haven’t you: Ibid, p. 171.
875 “Analogically, this: A.E. van Vogt, “Author’s Introduction,” in van Vogt, The World of Null-A (New York: Berkley, 1970), p. 9.
876 “go-sane”: Ibid, p. 11.
877 “extra-brain”: A.E. van Vogt, World of Null-A, Astounding, September 1945, p. 89, et passim in the October installment.
878 “ ‘The evidence: Ibid, September 1945, p. 28.
879 “He died: Ibid, p. 30.
880 “ ‘like a: Ibid, p. 25.
881 “ ‘I nourished: A.E. van Vogt, World of Null-A, Astounding, October 1945, p. 178.
882 “ ‘I was: A.E. van Vogt, The World of Null-A (New York: Berkley, 1970), p. 189.
883 “ ‘Is there: Isaac Asimov, In Memory Yet Green (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1979), p. 394.
884 “ ‘That will: Robert Heinlein, quoted in ibid.
885 “Since Bob: Asimov, Ibid.
886 “Someone new: Ibid.
887 “ ‘Gentlemen, I: Ibid.
888 “ ‘The Empire: Isaac Asimov, Foundation, p. 224, in Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, n.d.).
889 “ ‘Siwenna, yes.: Ibid, p. 189.
890 “ ‘You see: Ibid, p. 204.
891 “ ‘And time: Ibid.
892 “ ‘The whole: Ibid, p. 224.
893 “ ‘You tried: Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire, pp. 76-77, in Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy.
894 “ ‘What keeps: Ibid, p. 77.
895 “As I: Isaac Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, p. 400.
896 “I was: Ibid, p. 415.
897 “ ‘Consolidated’s machines: Isaac Asimov, “Escape!” in Asimov, I, Robot (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, n.d.), p. 149.
898 “slyly”: Ibid, p. 156.
899 “ ‘Strictly speaking: Ibid, pp. 167-168.
900 “an excellent: Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire, p. 94, in Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy.
901 “ ‘Every vice: Ibid, p. 88.
902 “ ‘Let us: Ibid, p. 149.
903 “ ‘A mutant: Ibid, pp. 158-159.
904 “ ‘Its significance: Ibid, pp. 209-210.
905 “ ‘Foundation Number: Ibid, p. 213.
906 “ ‘I am: Ibid, p. 216.
907 “ ‘Visi-Sonor’ ”: Ibid, p. 138, et passim. On page 148 given as “Sono-Visor.”
908 “ ‘We have: Ibid, p. 226.
AFTERWORD
909 “ ‘Oh, my: John Campbell, quoted in George O. Smith, Worlds of George O. (New York: Bantam, 1982), p. 66.
SUPPLEMENTAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Corbin, Henry. Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1969).
Day, Donald B. Index to the Science-Fiction Magazines 1926-1950 (Portland, Oregon: Perri Press, 1952).
Ibn ‘Arabi, Muhyiddin. “The Earth Which Was Created From What Remained of the Clay of Adam,” in Henry Corbin, Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi’ite Iran (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977).
Panshin, Alexei and Cory. “Science Fiction and the Dimension of Myth,” in Extrapolation, Summer 1981, Vol. 22, No. 2.
——————. SF in Dimension: A Book of Explorations, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Advent, 1980).
Tuck, Donald H. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968, 3 vols. (Chicago: Advent, 1974, 1978, 1982).
Index
A
The Abyss of Wonders (Sheehan), 1st
“Accuracy” (Campbell), 1st
“Ad Astra” (Asimov), 1st, 2nd
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Verne), 1st
“After World’s End” (Williamson), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Air Wonder Stories, 1st
“The Airlords of Han” (Nowlan), 1st
All-Story, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Amazing Stories, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
The Amphibians (Wright), 1st
“Ancestral Voices” (Schachner), 1st
“ ‘And He Built a Crooked House’ ” (Heinlein), 1st, 2nd
. . . And Searching Mind (Williamson), 1st
“Another Basis for Life” (Wells), 1st
Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (Wells), 1st
The Arabian Nights (Scheherazade), 1st, 2nd
Argosy, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“Armageddon—2419 A.D.” (Nowlan), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Around the Moon (Verne), 1st, 2nd
Asimov, Isaac, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
Astounding Stories of Super-Science/Astounding Science-Fiction, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
“Asylum” (van Vogt), 1st
“Atomic Power” (Campbell), 1st
“Author! Author!” (Asimov), 1st
B
“A Balloon Hoax” (Poe), 1st
“A Balloon Journey” (Verne), 1st
“The Balloon Tree” (Mitchell), 1st
Baron Munchausen’s Scientific Adventures (Gernsback), 1st
Bates, Harry, 1st, 2nd
“The Battle of Dorking” (Chesney), 1st, 2nd
Baum, L. Frank, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
Beyond This Horizon (Heinlein), 1st
Bierce, Ambrose, 1st, 2nd
“The Big and the Little” (Asimov), 1st
Binder, Otto, 1st
“Black Destroyer” (van Vogt), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“Black Friar of the Flame” (Asimov), 1st
The Black Star Passes (Campbell), 1st
“Blind Alley” (Asimov), 1st
Blish, James, 1st
“Blowups Happen” (Heinlein), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“The Blue Giraffe” (de Camp), 1st
The Book of Ptah (van Vogt), 1st
“Born of the Sun” (Williamson), 1st
Boucher, Anthony (pseud. White), 1st
“The Brain Stealers of Mars” (Campbell), 1st
Brave New World (A. Huxley), 1st, 2nd
“Breakdown” (Williamson), 1st
Breuer, Miles J., 1st
“Bridle and Saddle” (Asimov), 1st
Brown, Fredric, 1st
Buck Rogers (Nowlan), 1st
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 1st
Burks, Arthur J., 1st
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
“By His Bootstraps” (Heinlein), 1st
C
Cabell, James Branch, 1st
Caesar’s Column (Donnelly), 1st
“The Call of Cthulhu” (Lovecraft), 1st
The Call of the Wild (London), 1st, 2nd
“Calling the Empress” (G. Smith), 1st
“The Callistan Menace” (Asimov), 1st
Campbell, John W., 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th
Capek, Karel, 1st
Carroll, Lewis (pseud. Charles Dodgson), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Cartmill, Cleve, 1st
“The Case of Summerfield” (Rhodes), 1st
“Castle of Iron” (de Camp/Pratt), 1st
The Castle of Otranto (Walpole), 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
The Champion of Virtue, a Gothic Story (Reeve), 1st
Chesney, George, 1st
The Chronic Argonauts (Wells), 1st, 2nd
Clark, John D., 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Clarke, Arthur C., 1st
Clement, Hal (pseud. Stubbs), 1st
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1st
“Colossus” (Wandrei), 1st
The Coming Race (Bulwer-Lytton), 1st
“The Command” (de Camp), 1st
“Common Sense” (Heinlein), 1st
“Concealment” (van Vogt), 1st
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Twain), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“Co-operate—or Else!” (van Vogt), 1st, 2nd
“Cosmic Corkscrew” (Asimov), 1st, 2nd
Cosmic Digest, 1st
Cosmic Engineers (Simak), 1st
“Coventry” (Heinlein), 1st
“Crashing Suns” (Hamilton), 1st, 2nd
Cummings, Ray, 1st, 2nd
Curwen, Henry, 1st
D
“The Dangerous Dimension” (Hubbard), 1st, 2nd
“Darker Than You Think” (Williamson), 1st, 2nd
Darwin, Charles, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
d’Aulnoy, Madame, 1st
Davis, Robert H., 1st, 2nd
“The Day Is Done” (del Rey), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“Dead Hand” (Asimov), 1st
“Deadline” (Cartmill), 1st
“Deadlock” (Kuttner/Moore), 1st, 2nd
“Death Sentence” (Asimov), 1st
de Camp, Catherine Crook, 1st
de Camp, L. Sprague, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
“The Decline and Fall” (Asimov), 1st
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
The Decline of the West (Spengler), 1st
del Rey, Lester, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
Delany, Samuel R., 1st
“A Descent into the Maelstrom” (Poe), 1st
The Descent of Man (Darwin), 1st, 2nd
“Desertion” (Simak), 1st
“Design for Life” (de Camp), 1st
“The Devil Makes the Law” (Heinlein), 1st
“The Diamond Lens” (O’Brien), 1st, 2nd
“Discord in Scarlet” (van Vogt), 1st, 2nd
“The Discovery of the Future” (Heinlein), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“Divide and Rule” (de Camp), 1st, 2nd
Dodgson, Charles (see pseud. Lewis Carroll), 1st
Donnelly, Ignatius, 1st
“A Drama in the Air” (Verne), 1st
“Dreamland” (Poe), 1st
Dunsany, Lord, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
E
Eddington, A.S., 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Eddison, E.R., 1st, 2nd
Einstein, Albert, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“The Elder Gods” (Campbell), 1st
Electrical Experimenter, 1st, 2nd
Ellis, Edward S., 1st
“Elsewhen” (Heinlein), 1st, 2nd
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“Environment” (Geier), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“Escape” (Asimov), 1st, 2nd
“Ether Breather” (Sturgeon), 1st
“The Extinction of Man” (Wells), 1st, 2nd
F
“The Face in the Abyss” (Merritt), 1st
The Faerie Queene (Spenser), 1st, 2nd
“The Faithful” (del Rey), 1st
“Fear” (Hubbard), 1st
Final Blackout (Hubbard), 1st
“First Contact” (Leinster), 1st
The First Men in the Moon (Wells), 1st, 2nd
Five Weeks in a Balloon (Verne), 1st
Flammarion, Camille, 1st
“Foreign Policy” (Heinlein), 1st
“Forgetfulness” (Campbell), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“Foundation” (Asimov), 1st, 2nd
Foundation series (Asimov), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (Shelley), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“A Free Man’s Worship” (B. Russell), 1st, 2nd
“From Beyond” (Lovecraft), 1st
From the Earth to the Moon (Verne), 1st, 2nd
Fuller, R. Buckminster, 1st, 2nd
Future History series (Heinlein), 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
G
Galactic Patrol (E. Smith), 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
“Gallegher Plus” (Kuttner/Moore), 1st, 2nd
Gallegher series (Kuttner/Moore), 1st, 2nd
Garby, Lee Hawkins, 1st, 2nd
Geier, Chester S., 1st
“Geography for Time Travelers” (Ley), 1st
Gernsback, Hugo, 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
4th, 5th
Gibbon, Edward, 1st, 2nd
Gilmore, Anthony (pseud. Bates/Hall), 1st
“The Girl in the Golden Atom” (Cummings), 1st, 2nd
“The Gnarly Man” (de Camp), 1st, 2nd
Gödel, Kurt, 1st, 2nd
The Gods of Mars (Burroughs), 1st
“Goldfish Bowl” (Heinlein), 1st
“The Graveyard Rats” (Kuttner), 1st
Gray Lensman (E. Smith), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“Greater Than Gods” (Moore), 1st
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 1st
Gunn, James E., 1st
H
Haggard, H. Rider, 1st
Haldane, J.B.S., 1st
Hall, Desmond, 1st
Hamilton, Edmond, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
“Hans Pfaall” (Poe), 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Harold Shea series (Pratt/de Camp), 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
Harrison, Harry, 1st
“Hawk Carse” (Bates/Hall), 1st
Heinlein, Robert A., 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th
“Helen O’Loy” (del Rey), 1st
Hilton, James, 1st
“History to Come” (Campbell), 1st
The Hobbit (Tolkien), 1st
“Hollywood on the Moon” (Kuttner), 1st
Holmes, H.H. (pseud. White), 1st
“Homo Sol” (Asimov), 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
Hornig, Charles, 1st
The House of the Wolfings (Morris), 1st
Howard, Robert E., 1st
Hubbard, L. Ron, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
Hull, E. Mayne, 1st
The Humanoids (Williamson), 1st
Huxley, Aldous, 1st, 2nd
Huxley, Thomas, 1st, 2nd
“Hyperpilosity” (de Camp), 1st
I
“I Live in the Streets” (van Vogt), 1st
I, Robot (Asimov), 1st
“ ‘If This Goes On—’ ” (Heinlein), 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
“The Imaginary” (Asimov), 1st
The Incomplete Enchanter (de Camp/Pratt), 1st
“Invaders from the Infinite” (Campbell), 1st
Invaders from the Infinite (Campbell), 1st, 2nd
Irving, Washington, 1st
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Wells), 1st
Islands of Space (Campbell), 1st
J
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