70th Anniversary of the Golden Age of Science Fiction Celebrated With Release of...

70th Anniversary of the Golden Age of Science Fiction Celebrated With Release
of Largest Pulp Fiction Series Ever
'Stories from the Golden Age' Series Set for 6-Year Publication Run

LOS ANGELES, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- In the same year that Superman was
introduced and radio reports of aliens starting a "War of the Worlds" induced
panic across America, a small group of publishers and famous authors also
shook the world: they created what was to become known as the Golden Age of
Science Fiction which laid the groundwork for Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey
and the Star Wars saga.
Seventy years later, the Golden Age is again being celebrated, enabling
readers to explore the largest series of multiple-genre, pulp fiction novels
ever written by a single author -- Stories from the Golden Age published by
Los Angeles-based Galaxy Press. The series will include eighty titles with
their original artwork to be released over as many months and will showcase
some of the era's most evocative and far ranging literary genres penned by
explorer, master storyteller and multiple New York Times' best-selling author
L. Ron Hubbard.
It was 1938 when the top brass of the New York publishing company Street &
Smith asked two of the most established top-line adventure writers of the day,
Arthur J. Burkes and L. Ron Hubbard, to begin writing a new kind of science
fiction story where people, not machines or gadgets were central to the story.
They were introduced to now-legendary editor John W. Campbell, Jr., publisher
of Astounding Science Fiction. From that moment on, the Golden Age was in full
swing.
"We have embarked upon an ambitious six-year plan to republish all the
stories written by Hubbard during the Golden Age because people love good
stories," said John Goodwin, president of Galaxy Press. "Those earlier works
from the 30s and 40s written by Mr. Hubbard and his peers still inspire
readers and serve as the source for huge adventure, science fiction, and
fantasy epics today."
According to Galaxy Press, the first five books will be released later in
2008 and they will continue to roll out twelve books per year until all eighty
books in the Golden Age Stories have been released.
"World War II spelled the end to many of the pulps due to paper shortages
and because top-line writers like Mr. Hubbard enlisted to help their country,"
said Goodwin. "The pulps never fully regained their full pre-war stature as
people sought entertainment from a new story-telling format -- television and
the cinema."
After writing his New York Times' bestseller Battlefield Earth (1982),
Hubbard commented on the Golden Age of Science Fiction, "Those of us who were
there writing during that period have a unique viewpoint because we were
there." He went on, "'Golden Age' was a later characterization. At the time,
it meant simply an explosion of interest and opportunities."
To learn more about Hubbard's fiction and receive a free Hubbard story,
visit http://www.goldenagestories.com/signup.php.
SOURCE Galaxy Press

John Goodwin of Galaxy Press, +1-323-321-2144