Sol Cohen (1) (1903–1984)
Autore di Thrilling Science Fiction, April 1975
Per altri autori con il nome Sol Cohen, vedi la pagina di disambiguazione.
Serie
Opere di Sol Cohen
Strange Fantasy #10 Fall '69 — A cura di — 3 copie
Great Science Fiction from Amazing #3 — A cura di — 3 copie
The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, No. 4 — A cura di — 2 copie
The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, No. 13, Summer 1969 — A cura di — 2 copie
The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, No. 7 — A cura di — 1 copia
Strange Fantasy #9 Summer '69 featuring The Spawn Of The Dark One — A cura di — 1 copia
Strange Fantasy #8 Spring '69 featuring Some Fabulous Yonder — A cura di — 1 copia
Thrilling Science Fiction, Spring 1970 — A cura di — 1 copia
Science fantasy No. 4 1 copia
Great Science Fiction [magazine] 1 copia
Famous Gangsters Comic Book 1 copia
Avon science fiction and fantasy reader [magazine] — A cura di — 1 copia
Thrilling Science Fiction, Fall 1970 — A cura di — 1 copia
Science Fiction Adventure Classics November 1972 — A cura di — 1 copia
Science Fiction Adventure Classics September 1972 — A cura di — 1 copia
Thrilling Science Fiction, Summer 1970 — A cura di — 1 copia
Thrilling Science Fiction, Fall 1971 — A cura di — 1 copia
SF Greats, Spring 1971, No. 21 1 copia
Thrilling Science Fiction, Spring 1971 — A cura di — 1 copia
Thrilling Science Fiction, August 1972 — A cura di — 1 copia
Thrilling Science Fiction, Fall 1969 — A cura di — 1 copia
Thrilling Science Fiction, December 1973 — A cura di — 1 copia
The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, No. 11, Winter 1968 — A cura di — 1 copia
Science Fiction Adventure Classics March 1972 — A cura di — 1 copia
Science Fiction Adventure Classics January 1972 — A cura di — 1 copia
Science Fiction Adventures January 1974 — A cura di — 1 copia
The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, No. 5 — A cura di — 1 copia
Opere correlate
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Cohen, Sol
- Nome legale
- Cohen, Solomon
- Altri nomi
- Lester, Jack (pen name as editor of Science Fiction Classics ∙ Issues 1-5)
- Data di nascita
- 1903-08-04
- Data di morte
- 1984-01
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
- Attività lavorative
- editor
business manager
publisher - Breve biografia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Cohe...
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 74
- Opere correlate
- 10
- Utenti
- 154
- Popolarità
- #135,795
- Voto
- 2.7
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 11
Isaac Asimov: Genius in the Candy Store by Sam Moskowitz (originally in Amazing Stories, April 1962) opens the issue with a portrait of the multi-talented author. It contains spoilers if you had not read some of the stories and novels mentioned but they are needed to make the points the author is trying to make. I probably enjoyed this one (and the other essay in the magazine) more than any of the stories.
Goodbye, Atlantis! by Poul Anderson (originally in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, August 1961) is a cautionary tale about trying to meddle in things you do not understand. The title makes you think of a specific island - without it, the connection is not that clear in the text (although one can surmise it).
In Battleground by William Morrison (originally in Amazing Stories, November 1954), a doctor who is a bit too scalpel-happy ends up almost causing a catastrophe on a global scale - it may be a good idea not to cut people before you scan them - just in case they are not exactly people. The idea of the story is great but the execution is so dated (the nurse's submission and how she is treated) that it mares the story.
Hang Head, Vandal! by Mark Clifton (originally in Amazing Stories, April 1962) is another cautionary tale - this time about scientists who only see their own field (it curiously ties into the Big History lectures I finished listening to recently). Nothing more destructive than humanity among the stars (no surprises there considering what we are doing to our own planet).
The second article of the issue is a third in a series of articles about possible colonization of the Solar system. This one (The Alien Worlds by Ben Bova (originally in Amazing Stories, September 1964)) deals with everything that is not the Moon, Mars and Venus. It is 1964 science but except for some refinements in the numbers, it is still valid. Did you know that it is actually cheaper fuel-wise to have a round trip to Mercury than to Venus? (as far as I tell, this is still the case).
No Star Is Safe by P. F. Costello (originally in Amazing Stories, September 1954) annoyed me more than any other of the stories in the issue. A man survives calamity in space - or so everyone believes. Except that there was a bigger story which he decided to hide because he wanted to solve on his own. And then we have a heiress who sticks by our now permanently drunk hero, forgives him when he steals her ship (and even makes him coffee - more than once - the first time may have been ironic but...), professes not to understand anything about money and plays the clueless beauty on the hero's arm up to and including becoming the damsel in distress). There is a kernel of a nice storyline under all that but it gets drown under all that (and then the end is so cliched and predictable even for 1954 that it made me almost sorry that I read the story at all).
Question of Comfort by Les Collins aka Les Cole(originally in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, March 1959) is a clever play on the alien on Earth (it is obvious from very early on), complete with using the problems of translation (finding matching concepts is not very easy sometimes even on Earth; using that to one's advantage when the languages are not from the same planet is a clever way to deal with new environments). It does have dated elements (although it can be argued that as it is the alien telling the story, he may have picked these up from the media at the times). And the very end manages to surprise - being an alien is not really the big reveal (which is why it is so thinly hidden earlier).
The last story, the shortest of them all, Kimo by Al Sevcik (originally in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, August 1958) is also probably the best. A goat shepherd sees weird lights and get sick and because of that misses his trip to the nearby town for a few years. When he is sure he is dying, he decides to die among people and start looking for them - except they are all gone. Until he sees a light and tries to reach it. As we see the story as Kimo sees it, we don't get any explanations of what happened (and why) but it is not hard to figure out. I rarely like "Last man on Earth" stories but this one was very well done (even if it is just last man in the area - it does sound final).
I am really glad that SF had moved on from this type of writing is female characters (although admittedly the really bad stories are the earlier ones; the later ones are either clean or at least not obvious enough to distract). I won't comment much on the misspelling of the title of the last story both on the cover and on the contents page (it is properly named on the title page of the story and that is the character names so Kim does not even make sense) or what a mess the type-setters did with the Bova article (pages references not updated, two parts which belongs on different pages put on the same page but the reference for the next page left over and somewhere in all that fitting, a sentence was half-printed only). Such things happen I guess :)… (altro)