Short Fiction Eligible for the 1941 Retro-Hugos Vol. 7 is now available, a collection of 33 public domain short stories published in 1940 assembled by File 770 commenter von Dimpleheimer. (Earlier posts contain links to Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three, Volume Four, Volume Five.and Volume Six.)
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.
Here is the Table of Contents for Volume Seven.
- Albert Bernstein (as Donald Bern) “The Man Who Knew All the Answers” Amazing Stories, August 1940
- Laurence Bour, Jr. “Black Was the Night” Weird Tales, May 1940
- H.T.W. Bousfield “The Impossible Adventure” Weird Tales, November 1940
- Sam Carson “Sphere of the Never-Dead” Planet Stories, Summer 1940
- Robert Clancy “The Reward” Weird Tales, September 1940
- George E. Clark “The Test-Tube Monster” Marvel Tales, May 1940
- Raymond Z. Gallun “The Achilles Heel” Amazing Stories, November 1940
- Raymond Z. Gallun “Terror out of the Past” Amazing Stories, March 1940
- D.L. James “Exit from Asteroid 60” Planet Stories, Winter 1940
- Milton Kaletsky “Revolt of the Ants” Amazing Stories, April 1940
- Liam Kennedy “The Mirror” Weird Tales, November 1940
- Robert H. Leitfred “Seven Seconds of Eternity” Weird Tales, September 1940
- Richard O. Lewis “The Man Who Came Back” Fantastic Adventures, June 1940
- Frederick C. Painton “The Golden Empress” Argosy, October 5, 1940
- Frederick C. Painton “The World That Drowned” Argosy, May 4, 1940
- Denis Plimmer “The Green Invasion” Weird Tales, November 1940
- Jep Powell “The Synthetic Woman” Amazing Stories, September 1940
- E. Hoffman Price “Khosru’s Garden” Weird Tales, May 1940
- Seabury Quinn “The Last Waltz” Weird Tales, November 1940
- David V. Reed (as Peter Horn) “Vagabonds of the Void” Amazing Stories, March 1940
- John Murray Reynolds “Soul of Ra-Moses” Weird Tales, May 1940
- Wayne Rogers “Satan’s Seamstress” Horror Stories, May 1940
- Carl Selwyn “Exiles of the Three Red Moons” Planet Stories, Summer 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
- Howard Wandrei (as H. W. Guernsey) “The Black Farm” Unknown, March 1940
- Jack West “Revolt on Io” Amazing Stories, October 1940
- Jack West “When the Ice Terror Came” Amazing Stories, April 1940
- Don Wilcox “Mystery of “The Mind Machine” Amazing Stories, August 1940
- Don Wilcox (as Miles Shelton) “The Gift of Magic” Fantastic Adventures, January 1940
- Donald A. Wollheim “The Planet That Time Forgot” Planet Stories, Fall 1940
Von Dimpleheimer says it will take one more volume with 10 stories to wrap up the project.
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This is a wonderful resource, thank you !
I love that old cover of “Fantastic Adventures.”
It looks like a runaway Segway is assassinating a hipster … over Chicago! Of! The! Future!
It’s a very… penile robot. Perhaps the subtext is “Manly hard SF will kill us all!”