Nominations for BotM - May 2021 - 1920-1939: The Pulp Era

[Jim]

Nominations until 15Mar2021 are for our May BotM. The period is 1920-1939: The Pulp Era.

SF novels or short story collection/anthologies that have not previously been read by the group are eligible. Please check the bookshelf & the nomination rules for further clarification before nominating a book.

Previously nominated books are on this bookshelf. More qualifying authors & books can be found here. Also, both Wells & Verne are eligible for nominations. It's been more than 5 years since we read the first of their books.

Please add your nominated book title as a clickable link directly to the goodreads' book page, with author and year, so it looks like this:
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
2015
(If you can't create book links, please include the URL to the book.)

Tell us why you chose the book that you're nominating. Remember that books require seconding now. Each member is allowed to make one nomination & second one other book other than their own.

We'll close this nomination thread on the 15th of March, in order to have plenty of time for poll(s) and then for acquisitions of the winner(s).

[Jim]

Nominated
The Time Stream by Eric Temple Bell nom by Jim

Nominated & Seconded
When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie nom by Leo, 2d by Ronald
Stowaway To Mars by John Wyndham nom by Adrian, 2d by Ed

[Adrian]

So I will nominate (again) Stowaway To Mars by John Wyndham 1935.

I would love to re-read this after probably almost 45 years

[Jim]

I would like to nominate The Time Stream. I have never read Eric Temple Bell AKA John Taine but it appears he was a popular author in the 30's although I don't think he is well known now. One Goodreads reviewer commented that "it is said to be the author's strangest novel of the 16 he wrote between 1924 and '54, as well as his finest; an irresistible combination for those who are game."

Bell was a mathematician, educator, and writer who made significant contributions to analytic number theory. He is best remembered for his popular books about mathematics and with the publication of The Development of Mathematics (1940) was considered a historian of mathematics.

[Leo]

When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie, 1933.
Not to be missed by our group, apparantly:
"A crackling plot and sizzling, cataclysmic vision have made When Worlds Collide one of the most popular and influential end-of-the-world novels of all time."

[Jim]

Good book but not great. I read it back in 2016 and gave it 3 stars and I'm not ready to reread it again now. In my review I said: "I found the book to have become pretty dated over the last 80 years but it must have been a terrific read in 1933 with it's new and exciting SF idea for an earth ending disaster. I wish I had read it when I was a teenager in the late 50's when it would have only been 25 years old." I also saw the movie several times over the last 60 years. It was one of the better 1950's SF movies.

[Leo]

Oh, well. We can not all be H.G. Wells, can we.

[Jim]

I find H. G. Wells to be somewhat dated but I was a big fan in my much younger days around the age of 12 to 15 (I was born in 1947) when I was reading a lot of Wells and Jules Verne along with the wonderful Heinlein YA novels.

[Ronald]

I second the nomination of When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie.

I saw the movie adaptation of the novel on Family Classics, a Chicagoland TV program hosted by Frazier Thomas.

[Ed]

I second "Stowaway to Mars"

[Jim]

Nominations are ending tomorrow.

[Jim]

Nominations are closed & the poll is up. You can find it here:
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

[Jim]

The poll is closed. Stowaway To Mars by John Wyndham won by 2 votes with over 30 of us voting. That's pretty close.