Rayguns & rocketships

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Titel
Rayguns & rocketships
verantwortlich
Hughes, Rian (HerausgeberIn)
veröffentlicht
[London]: Korero Press, 2022
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
Medientyp
Buch unbewegtes Bild Bildband
Datenquelle
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Zusammenfassung
Science-fiction paperbacks exploded over the 1940s and ?50s literary landscape with the force of an alien gamma bomb. Titles such as Rodent Mutation, The Human Bat vs The Robot Gangster, Dawn of the Mutants and Mushroom Men from Mars appeared from fly-by-night publishers making the most of the end of post-war paper rationing. They were brash and seductive ? for around a shilling the future was yours.00The stories were often conceived around a pre-commissioned cover and a title suggested by the publisher, and the writers were paid by the word, and sometimes not paid at all. Titles were knocked out at a key-pounding pace, sometimes over a weekend, by authors now lost to literary history (plus a few professionals who could spot an opportunity) who were forced to write under pseudonyms like Ray Cosmic, Steve Future, Vector Magroon or Vargo Statten.00Despite the tight deadlines and poor pay, the books? cover artists still managed to produce works of multi-hued, brain-bending brilliance, and collected here is an overview of their output during an unparalleled period of brash optimism and experimentation in publishing
Umfang
463 Seiten
Sprache
Englisch
Schlagworte
RVK-Notation
  • Allgemeines
    • Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaft
      • Buchwesen
        • Buchgestaltung, Buchillustration
          • Buchgestaltung nach dem Zweck der Illustration
            • Umschlag
DDC-Notation
002.09
ISBN
9781912740048
1912740044