PLANET STORIES

by [RAY BRADBURY]. PLANET STORIES. Summer 1946. (Volume 3, No. 3). Chester Whitehorn, Ed

$250 · Offered by Biblio

New York: Love Romances, 1946. Mild tanning to text paper, mild edge wear, a fine copy. (36788). Octavo, single issue, cover by Chester Martin, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Lorelei of the Red Mist" by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury. This issue also includes "The Million Year Picnic," the first published story in the series that would later become THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481].

• Publisher: Love Romances
• Year: 1946
• Binding: unknown

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