Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter One: A Galaxy of Stars
• Chapter Two: Saturation and Suffocation
• Chapter Three: The Best of British?
• Chapter Four: Creative Chaos
• Chapter Five: Transformations
• Chapter Six: The Times they are a-Changing
• Chapter Seven: The New Wave
• Chapter Eight: Fantasy verses Reality
• Chapter Nine: Aftermath
• Appendix 1: Non-English Language Science-Fiction Magazines
• Appendix 2: Summary of Science-Fiction Magazines
• Appendix 3: Directory of Magazine Editors and Publishers
• Appendix 4: Directory of Magazine Cover Artists
• Select Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Mike Ashley has specialised in the history of science fiction and fantasy for over fifty years. He is the author and editor of over 130 books that in total have sold more than a million copies worldwide. He received the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award in 2002 for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science-fiction scholarship.

Reviews

Ashley's study of hacks pounding away at typewriters, bullying editors and money-pinching publishers is a rich mine of information. When complete, his trilogy will undoubtedly form the definitive history of SF from the pulp to the paperback. I acquired a copy of your masterly Transformations a couple of days ago and I've been reading it almost non-stop ever since. It is a marvellous book... Page by page I find myself wanting to take all the magazines down from the shelves and read them again... A wonderful book. Capaciously researched yet incisively argued.