Editor von Dimpleheimer explains his latest volume:
All of the short stories from Short Fiction Eligible for the 1941 Retro-Hugos Vols 1-7 are included here, along with five new stories.
At the end of the book, I listed all the short fiction from these volumes by magazine and editor. I thought that may help people nominate for Best Editor.
I’ll have an all novelette volume, with a few new novelettes, ready in a week or two.
These books are created to help MidAmeriCon II members who will vote next year on the Retro Hugos (along with the regular Hugos).
The links lead to a Google storage drive.
- EPUB 2 Short Stories Eligible for the 1941 Retro Hugos
- EPUB 3 Short Stories Eligible for the 1941 Retro Hugos
- Kindle Short Stories Eligible for the 1941 Retro Hugos
This ebook contains 88 science fiction and fantasy short stories published in 1940 that have fallen into the public domain and may be eligible for the 1941 Retro-Hugo Awards.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- H. Bedford-Jones “The Angry Amethyst” Argosy, November 30, 1940
- H. Bedford-Jones “The Blind Farmer and the Strip Dancer” Weird Tales, September 1940
- H. Bedford-Jones “Dance of Life” The Blue Book Magazine, June 1940
- H. Bedford-Jones “Emerald of Isis” Argosy, September 21, 1940
- H. Bedford-Jones (as Gordon Keyne) “The Kings Do Battle Again” Weird Tales, September 1940
- H. Bedford-Jones “Outlawed” The Blue Book Magazine, July 1940
- H. Bedford-Jones “Ruby of France” Argosy, November 9, 1940
- H. Bedford-Jones “The Wife of the Humorous Gangster” Weird Tales, November 1940
- Albert Bernstein (as Donald Bern) “The Man Who Knew All the Answers” Amazing Stories, August 1940
- Albert Bernstein (as Donald Bern) “The Ray that Failed” Fantastic Adventures, August 1940
- Robert Bloch “Queen of the Metal Men” Fantastic Adventures, April 1940
- Hannes Bok “The Symphonic Abduction” Futuria Fantasia, Winter 1940
- Hannes Bok (as H. V. B.) “The Voice of Scariliop” Futuria Fantasia, Winter 1940
- Nelson S. Bond “The Fertility of Dalrymple Todd” Fantastic Adventures, August 1940
- Nelson S. Bond “The Scientific Pioneer” Amazing Stories, March 1940
- Nelson S. Bond “The Unusual Romance of Ferdinand Pratt” Weird Tales, September 1940
- Laurence Bour, Jr. “Black Was the Night” Weird Tales, May 1940
- H. T. W. Bousfield “The Impossible Adventure” Weird Tales, November 1940
- Leigh Brackett “The Stellar Legion” Planet Stories, Winter 1940
- Ray Bradbury “The Flight of the Good Ship Clarissa” Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940
- Ray Bradbury (as Ron Reynolds) “The Piper” Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940
- Miles J. Breuer “The Oversight” Comet, December 1940
- John L. Chapman “In the Earth’s Shadow” Comet, December 1940
- Robert Clancy “The Reward” Weird Tales, September 1940
- Ray Cummings “Arton’s Metal” Super Science Stories, May 1940
- Ray Cummings & Gabrielle Cummings (as Gabriel Wilson) “Corpses from Canvas” Horror Stories, May 1940
- Ray Cummings (as Ray King) “The Man Who Killed the World” Planet Stories, Spring 1940
- Ray Cummings “Personality Plus” Astonishing Stories, October 1940
- Ray Cummings “The Thought-Woman” Super Science Stories, July 1940
- Ray Cummings “The Vanishing Men” Thrilling Wonder Stories, September 1940
- Ray Cummings “When the Werewolf Howls” Horror Stories, May 1940
- Ray Cummings “World Upside Down” Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1940
- Ralph Milne Farley “Rescue Into the Past” Amazing Stories, October 1940
- Ralph Milne Farley “The Time Wise-Guy” Amazing Stories, May 1940
- Oscar J. Friend (as Frank Johnson) “Colossus from Space” Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1940
- Oscar J. Friend “Glamour Girl—2040” Startling Stories, May 1940
- Oscar J. Friend “Mind Over Matter” Startling Stories, January 1940
- Oscar J. Friend “The Stolen Spectrum” Thrilling Wonder Stories, September 1940
- Raymond Z. Gallun “The Achilles Heel” Amazing Stories, November 1940
- Raymond Z. Gallun “Eyes That Watch” Comet, December 1940
- Edmond Hamilton “Lost Treasure of Mars” Amazing Stories, August 1940
- Robert Heinlein (as Lyle Monroe) “HEIL!” Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940
- D.L. James “Exit from Asteroid 60” Planet Stories, Winter 1940
- D.L. James “Tickets to Paradise” Comet, December 1940
- Malcolm Jameson “Joshua’s Battering Ram” Astonishing Stories, June 1940
- Malcolm Jameson “Philtered Power” Unknown, March 1940
- Malcolm Jameson “Prospectors of Space” Thrilling Wonder Stories, September 1940
- Milton Kaletsky “The Wizard of Baseball” Fantastic Adventures, May 1940
- Milton Kaletsky “Revolt of the Ants” Amazing Stories, April 1940
- Liam Kennedy “The Mirror” Weird Tales, November 1940
- Damon Knight “The Itching Hour Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940
- Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr. “The Time Merchant” Fantastic Adventures, January 1940
- Henry Kuttner (as Kelvin Kent) “Beauty and the Beast” Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1940
- Henry Kuttner “A Comedy of Eras” Thrilling Wonder Stories, September 1940
- Henry Kuttner (as Paul Edmonds) “Improbability” Astonishing Stories, June 1940
- Henry Kuttner (as Kelvin Kent) “Man About Time” Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1940
- Henry Kuttner “No Man’s World” Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1940
- Henry Kuttner “Pegasus” Famous Fantastic Mysteries, May-June 1940
- Henry Kuttner “Reverse Atom” Thrilling Wonder Stories, November 1940
- Henry Kuttner “Threshold” Unknown, December 1940
- Henry Kuttner “The Uncanny Power of Edwin Cobalt” (as Noel Gardner) Fantastic Adventures, October 1940
- Henry Kuttner “World without Air” Fantastic Adventures, August 1940
- Richard O. Lewis “The Man Who Came Back” Fantastic Adventures, June August 1940
- P. Schuyler Miller “The Ultimate Image” Comet, December 1940
- C. L. Moore “Song a Minor Key” Scienti-Snaps, February 1940
- David Wright O’Brien (as John York Cabot) “The Man the World Forgot” Fantastic Adventures, April 1940
- Emil Petaja “The Intruder” Futuria Fantasia, Winter 1940
- Alexander M. Phillips “The Space Flame” Planet Stories, Spring 1940
- Denis Plimmer “The Green Invasion” Weird Tales, November 1940
- E. Hoffman Price “Khosru’s Garden” Weird Tales, May 1940
- Dorothy Quick “Turn Over” Weird Tales, November 1940
- Seabury Quinn “The Last Waltz” Weird Tales, November 1940
- Ed Earl Repp “Norris Tapley’s Sixth Sense” Fantastic Adventures, April 1940
- John Murray Reynolds “Soul of Ra-Moses” Weird Tales, May 1940
- Ross Rocklynne “The Tantalus Death” Planet Stories, Spring 1940
- Gretchen Ruediger “Wind the Moonlight” Weird Tales, May 1940
- Ivan Sandrof “The Scientific Miler of Bowler U.” Fantastic Adventures, October 1940
- Carl Selwyn “Venus Has Green Eyes” Planet Stories, Fall 1940
- Harry Sivia “Past Tense” Weird Tales, September 1940
- Harry Walton “Asteroid H277—Plus” Planet Stories, Summer 1940
- Howard Wandrei (as H. W. Guernsey) “The African Trick” Unknown, April 1940
- Helen Weinbaum “The Valley of the Undead” Weird Tales, September 1940
- Don Wilcox “The Girl the Whirlpool” Fantastic Adventures, August 1940
- Robert Moore Williams “Quest on Io” Planet Stories, Fall 1940
- Robert Moore Williams (as Russell Storm) “Trouble in Avalon” Fantastic Adventures, June 1940
- R. R. Winterbotham “Equation for Time” Comet, December 1940
- R. R. Winterbotham “Captives of the Void” Fantastic Adventures, January 1940
- Donald A. Wollheim “The Planet That Time Forgot” Planet Stories, Fall 1940
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Got love stories stories!
I greatly appreciate the time taken to verify public domain status for these 1940 stories, as well as the effort that went into gathering them into a convenient reference format. One question: should the Fanzine stories be indicated in some way so that readers/voters can easily distinguish for Retro-Hugo voting categories? For instance, all of the Futuria Fantasia stories are actually fanzine stories, even though some of the contributors were already professional writers.
Thanks for all your work,
Jon Eller
Director, Center for Ray Bradbury Studies
Indiana University School of Liberal Arts (IUPUI)
The “stories stories” must be eligible for the Hugos Hugos.
I’m not a Hugo Rules expert, but my understanding is that for the fiction categories, a story is a story and it doesn’t matter how it was published. If Bradbury had printed one copy of his fanzine and taped it to a tree and enough people read it and nominated a story in it, I think even that would have been fine. BUT if I am wrong, somebody please correct me.
In the back of the book, I list the stories by publication and mention that Futuria Fantasia and Scienti-Snaps are fanzines. I assume they can be nominated in the fanzine category, but I don’t know if Bradbury is eligible for Best Editor.
The “Stories Stories” are the doubleplusgood stories that only the SMOFs are allowed to read. Mike must have been reading some of those before making this post and accidentally spilling the beans. Let’s pretend it says “Short Stories” and maybe a controversy can be avoided.
von Dimpleheimer: You’re right about the rule. In fact, Bradbury has had a fanzine story nominated for a Retro Hugo before, “Hollerbochen’s Dilemma” (Imagination! Jan 1938), which was on LonCon 3’s Retro Hugo ballot in 2014.
P.S. I’ve deleted the duplicate word in the headline.
@Mike Glyer: But but – wasn’t that the fifth word? Or was it the fourth? These things matter.
I hope at the ceremony, someone recognizes all of vonD’s hard work!
Clicky.
Don Wilcox has two serious contenders from 1940: the classic novelette “The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years” and the novella “The Whispering Gorilla”.a
Mike and vonD: Thanks for clarifying categories; we noted the Hollerbchen Retro nomination here at the Bradbury Center, but just couldn’t remember if there were subcategories. Good to know that it’s a fairly straightforward process. Your work is much appreciated.
best,
Jon Eller
Director, Center for Ray Bradbury Studies
Indiana University School of Liberal Arts (IUPUI)
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Brilliant! Just to confirm, are the two EPUBs (2 & 3) the same? I haven’t yet read them cover to cover, but they seem to start and end with the same authors.
Thanks for the great work!
The contents are the same. EPUB 3 has been the standard for five years, but isn’t widely supported, so I made a version according to the EPUB 2 specs as well.