Description: Prelude to Armageddon - By Cleve Cartmill. Darkside Press (2003). 1st Edition. Limited edition of 500 copies (this is no.471). Out of print. Introduction by John PelanCover by Allen Koszowki Heinlein, Simak, Hubbard, de Camp, Cartmill... These are the foundations upon which John W. Campbell built the Golden Age in Street & Smith’s Astounding Science Fiction and Unknown Worlds. All of these authors have had much of their fiction collected and are well-known to today’s readers. Cleve Cartmill has been remembered primarily for his notoriously prescient atomic bomb story “Deadline”, which brought Federal Agents swooping down on Campbel’s offices worried that there had been a leak at the Manhattan Project. Cleve Cartmill was far, far more than merely the author of this one well-known tale; his fantasy novellas rank among some of the best to have been published in Unknown and his science fiction still holds up well today some sixty years later. This is the first of a projected set of five volumes that will collect all of Cartmill’s superlative fiction in a matched set. Shifting seamlessly from modern fantasy to social commentary through the medium of science fiction, Cartmill’s stories are sharp, original and eminently entertaining. For readers familiar with his work, this is a volume that is many years overdue; for those new to the author, you’re cordially invited to enjoy this journey back through time to the Golden Age of fantastic fiction. Good in Near Fine dust jacket (there is a small barely visible stain at the head of the spine which goes into the endpapers on both sides, priced as a reading copy). Fine is the highest grade I use for a 2nd hand, out of print book followed by Very Good, Good etc. Boxed shipping is $5.50. Foreign- please use Ebay's global shipping service. Be sure to check my other lisitngs for more rare out of print weird fiction material and material by Robert E Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith.
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Book Title: Prelude to Armageddon
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Darkside Press
Original Language: English
Subject: Science Fiction
Edition: Limited Edition
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Short Stories
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Literary Movement: Pulp
Era: 1940s
Illustrator: Allen Koszowski
Special Attributes: Limited Edition
Author: Cleve Cartmill
Features: Limited Edition, Dust Jacket
Genre: Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Short Stories (Single Author)
Number of Pages: 277
