Igor Spajic

FOLLOW THE EBB AND FLOW OF THE TIDES OF LOVE - AND LUST - OVER AN EPIC JOURNEY OF TWO THOUSAND YEARS. Billy and Harry are human guinea pigs, sent into futurity by Professor Slagoscar's time projector. They must survive threats of injury, death - and considerable embarrassment - as they are plunged into a series of futures, each more bizarre than the last 2050 A. D. - Sex, lies and surveillance... 2500 A. D. - Billy must wear feminine garments, just to prove that he's a man... 2700 A. D. - A love triangle between a man, a woman and a talking ape - 3000 A. D. - When intelligent animals hunt and humans are on the menu 3500 A. D. - Harry stumbles into a 'domestic arrangement' between a woman and a waistcoat-wearing tomcat... 3700 A. D. - Androids available for every need and purpose, even the most intimate... 3710 A. D. - Can love survive the death rays of rebel robots? 4000 A. D. - Cave women hunt for men...but do they want sex or food? Will humanity survive the destructive politics of gender; repeated economic collapses; genetic engineering gone wrong; the android revolt; wars waged with weapons of mass destruction; and civilisations' cycles of creation and destruction? And in all that vastness of two thousand years of deep time, will Billy ever fulfill his quest - to find a beautiful woman to love, and a surviving bottle of scotch?

BEFORE SCIENCE FICTION HAD A HOME The rise of SF (or sci-fi) as a genre was boosted by a new generation of SF-only pulp magazines from 1926 onwards. But science fiction was published (and popular) in the general run of fiction magazines which had their heyday before the 1930s. Literary gems of science fiction published in the general fiction magazines of the early 20th Century deserve a new audience. In this era, science fiction grew and matured with the input of such writers as Ray Cummings, Jack London, Edgar Rice Burroughs and A. Merritt. How would you track down the SF content of a magazine which also might contain adventure, romance, westerns, detective and mystery stories? You don't have to. Someone else already has, and the results are contained in this Checklist. Also included within is a generous showcase of magazine cover illustrations of SF stories, to give something of the flavour of the period. VINTAGE S. F. IN THE POPULAR MAGAZINES: A Checklist 1874-1936 is a must for the virtual bookshelf of any SF reader exploring the genre's early classics.