When Frauds Rule: Golden Age Space Opera Tales

Frauds are just about everywhere these days.

And some of them are in powerful positions. Sad, but true. No matter what they did or didn’t do to get into that position. Frauds are frauds, lets face it.

These stories are all about frauds. Of course, their authors are long dead, and the events they describe haven’t happened, and occur in places that no human has visited – yet.

If they happen to have some relevance to the current frauds that are apparently running things – well, enjoy. You might learn something about how to deal with them. Satire is like that – it sneaks up on you.

Or, they are just good entertainment…

Space Opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, melodramatic adventure, interplanetary battles, chivalric romance, and risk-taking. Set mainly or entirely in outer space, it usually involves conflict between opponents possessing advanced abilities, futuristic weapons, and other sophisticated technology.

The term has no relation to music, as in a traditional opera, but is instead a play on the terms “soap opera”, a melodramatic television series, and “horse opera”, which was coined during the 1930s to indicate a formulaic Western movie. Space operas emerged in the 1930s and continue to be produced in literature, film, comics, television, and video games.

The Golden Age of Pulp Magazine Fiction derives from pulp magazines (often referred to as “the pulps”) as they were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called “glossies” or “slicks”. (Wikipedia)

The pulps gave rise to the term pulp fiction. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were proving grounds for those authors like Robert Heinlein, Louis LaMour, “Max Brand”, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and many others. The best writers moved onto longer fiction required by paperback publishers. Many of these authors have never been out of print, even long after their passing.

Anthology containing:

The Watchers by Roger D. Aycock
Double Standard by Alfred Coppel
Assassin by Bascom Jones
Prime Difference by Alan Edward Nourse
The Scapegoat by Richard Maples
The Impersonator by Robert Wicks
Space Station 1 by Frank Belknap Long

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