Science Fiction Series No. 06 ("When The Moon Fell" by Morrison Colladay) [1929]

Science Fiction Series No. 06 ("When The Moon Fell" by Morrison Colladay) [1929]

Year: 1929

Science Fiction Series No. 06: "When The Moon Fell" by Morrison Colladay [1929]. Frontispiece illustration by Frank R. Paul. Adapted from the listing in the online SF Encyclopedia : The Science Fiction Serie s was a series of eighteen self-covered, side-stapled pamphlets published between 1929 and 1932 by Hugo Gernsback's Stellar Publishing Corporation, offered for sale by mail order for ten cents each (or six for 50 cents) in advertisements in his magazines, and seemingly edited by him. The pamphlets were either 24 or 28 pages long, and were published without cover illustrations, though the first twelve were internally illustrated (#1-#6 by Frank R. Paul). Most volumes contained a single novelette, like Jack Williamson and Miles J Breuer's The Girl from Mars (1929 chapbook), or Manly Wade Wellman's The Invading Asteroid (1932 chapbook), and in several instances, including these two titles, they constituted their authors' first book publications. Five volumes in the series were anthologies, each containing two stories. In Science-Fiction: The Early Years (1990), E. F. Bleiler speculates that, considering the low quality of most of the series, at least some of these titles may have