Fantastic Stories Presents the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #2

by Warren Lapine, Philip K. Dick, Fritz Leiber

Edited by H. L. Gold; 'Galaxy Science Fiction' hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. Galaxy gave a home to writers that didn't fit into Astounding and F&SF, and readers rejoiced. In this first 'Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack' we bring you more than five hundred pages of fiction. These are the stories that helped Galaxy Magazine carve it's name on the Mount Rushmore of science fiction. Dream World by R. A. Lafferty, The Imitation of Earth by James Stamers, Amateur in Chancery by George O. Smith, The Lamps of the Angels by Richard Sabia, Conditionally Human by Walter M. Miller, Jr., Dawningsburgh by Wallace West, Extracts from the Galactick Almanack by (Laurence Janifer), Breakdown by Herbert D. Kastle, A Matter of Protocol by Jack Sharkey, Charity Case by Jim Harmon, The Rag and Bone Men by Algis Budrys, Pick a Crime by Richard R. Smith, Shatter the Wall by Sydney Van Scyoc, Always a Qurono by Jim Harmon, Subject to Change by Goulart, Sales Talk by Con Blomberg, The Big Engine by Fritz Leiber, Accidental Flight by F. L. Wallace, The World That Couldn't Be by Clifford D. Simak, Solid Solution by James Stamers, With These Hands by . M. Kornbluth, A Fall of Glass by Stanley R. Lee, Sordman the Protector by Tom Purdom, Jamieson by Bill Doede, The Music Master of Babylon by Pangborn, The Defenders by Philip K. Dick

525 pages, Paperback

Published August 29, 2023

About the author

Warren Lapine is a speculative fiction writer and publisher.

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Individually these are very good stories. But some are depressing, and altogether it becomes a tough read. ‘Dream World’ is deliberately disgusting. ‘The Rag and Bone Men’ is hard to process. ‘Accidental Flight’ is a meander about differently-abled cripples who come to an unwarranted happy ending. In ‘The Music Master of Babylon’ the last old man on Earth is found by a young couple who steal his idol and leave him up the creek without his paddle. In ‘The Defenders’ people move underground so robots can wage war on the surface, except they don't, instead seal the people into their caves pending some abstract solution.
Don't read the whole thing at once.

[Scott Winegar · Rating 1 out of 5]

Waste of time and money

It has been a very long time that I have read stories as bad as these. I couldn't even get through one story before trying another story