The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Ten Classic Stories from the Birth of Modern Science Fiction Writing

I am a reader. I will read just about anything - but I do love my Sci-fi and Sci-fantasy etc. Having been reading sci fi for years (I had read most of Edgar rice burroughs by the time I was 11) I still rate Asimov as the father of the robot stories. But anything at all that he has written - I have enjoyed.

Since then I have read so many different authors, but my love of sci-fi started really with Asimov. He wrote so many shorts, and is included in so many compilations. So I cannot resist his work.

Love it

Some very ingenious tales - but by the last was depressed at our prospects!

Not surprisingly, a collection of ten short sci-fi stories written by different authors some 80 years ago is bound to be something of a mixed bag. Some are well-written but seem very dated, having been overtaken by subsequent scientific and technological advances. I particularly enjoyed 'The Weapons Shop' by A E van Vogt and 'With Folded Hands' by Jack Williamson, but some of the other stories, such as 'Giant Killer', were poor.

Had this book for years in hardback and have read it more than once, it's exactly what it says, stories from the golden age, if you like this type of story then you will love this.

Asimov edits, some of the stories are quite good, This volume does not contain fantasy rubbish that is now prevalent in science fiction today.

The stories stretch reality slightly , thus making up the main feature of each tale, One story by Asimov, from the Foundation series.

The Golden Age is my Favourite, l loved every story, a joy to read, all well known authors leaders in there field.

I was hoping to read sometjing new but all i got was bits of well known books I had read, disguised under

misleading names. I wish I had not bought it.

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As a lover of classic sci-fi, I thoroughly enjoyed the stories in this collection. Nicely formatted for Kindle, it is a book I'll return to.

Has some good stories. Interesting to read sci-fi that was written well ahead of the rise of computers.

Another five star rating, if it were 6 or more stars I would have still given maximum rating.

A collection of great novellas from the Golden years. Easy read, of very interesting and "lost" sci fi from great writers of that era.

I had trouble laying this compilation down, even when I finished one story. Recommended for anyone who is an aficionado of sci fi.

Please note for science critics. These stories were written at a time when the science of the stories was new to everyone, and some of the science was extrapolated (fictional?) at that time, some which is real now.

Among the better collections of SF short stories

Just good old-fashioned science-fiction. Some of the "science" seems quaint and very optimistic now. Most of the stories feel like they were written in the 40s. The last one, With Folded Hands, could actually be a story written today. While it has the pace and feel of a 40s story, the subject matter is quite fitting with the currant spate of stories dealing with runaway super intelligence.

If you feel nostalgic for the good old days of sci-fi, this book will help fill that void.

The Mammoth Book of Golden Age science fiction should be required reading for anyone interested in science fiction today. Isaac Asimov, one of the creators of the Golden Age himself, has selected works that invoked in readers of the time a sense of wonder that is largely gone from modern day sf, particularly in those works now being created in book series that endlessly rehash the same plot lines, and those efforts to develop, by new authors, sequels to classic tales whose original authors have died. Each of the Golden Age authors in this book bring unique ideas and style to the genre, which had just broken away from its original pulp magazine foundation, ideas and style which generated a sence of wonder from those of us who first discovered these works as children. I am not certain that newer writers -- working as they do in a more sophisticated and better educated age -- will ever be able to duplicate that feeling in today's youth.