Bøger af August Derleth

A journey in time... or a journey into our psyche? This collection of six short stories spanning from the 1890's to to 1950's shows just how various authors have used the vehicle of time travel as a mirror to ourselves. Running away to the past, escaping from the present, avoiding a future, even a print shop manager using time travel to speed up letterpress type setting!Each story a sign of its own time, yet many common threads are revealed in this span of sixty years of science fiction stories. Includes "A Traveler in Time" by August Derleth; "Nine Men in Time" by Noel Loomis; "The Thief of Time" by Capt. S. P. Meek; "The Man from 2071" by Sewell Peaslee Wright; "The Man from Time" by Frank Belknap Long; and the seminal "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells.

This volume is a facsimile reprint of AMRA, the 2-time Hugo Award-winning sword and sorcery fanzine edited by George H. Scithers. It presented artwork, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and a lively letter column and featured some of the most famous fantasy, horror, and science fiction writers, editors, and artists. Vol. 2, No. 2 is the third issue, originally published in 1959. This volume features contributions from John W. Campbell, Jr., Karen Anderson, August Derleth, Thomas Stratton, W.H. Griffey and Franklin Bergquist.

The author of this book was a chronicler whose ear was close to the northern Wisconsin ground. In his Sac Prairie Saga, of which ""Walden West"" is the crowning volume, he captures the essences of midwestern village life with his distinctive combination of narrative and prose-poetry.