Gernsback Days

About the author

Though he worked in local government until 1998, Mike Ashley has still managed to spend over fifty-five years collecting, reading and researching popular fiction, especially fantasy, supernatural, crime and science fiction. He has compiled or edited over 100 books including reference works for children, a biography of Algernon Blackwood and a five-volume series on the history of the science-fiction magazines, though he is probably best known for the many Mammoth Book anthologies he has compiled. His Age of the Storytellers explores the British popular-fiction magazines from the 1880s to 1940s. He received the Pilgrim Award for Lifetime Achievement in science-fiction scholarship in 2002 and the Edgar Award for The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction in 2003.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Ashley, Michael Lowndes Ashley, Mike Ashley, Robert A. W. Lowndes
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2004
• EAN: 9780809510559
• ISBN: 978-0-8095-1055-9
• No. of pages: 500
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama