Clarke, Cordwainer Smith, and all the greats of the genre. He was fond of authors like Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Damon Knight, William Tenn, Arthur C. You really couldn't look at a bookshelf without seeing a collection with his name on it.Ĭonklin knew the great stories. But I did haunt the bookstores and my school library, and the name Groff Conklin was everywhere. By that time, only a few were being published* and I didn't know what to look for at the newstands, especially since the era of pulp fiction had ended. I started reading SF in the early 60s, and didn't know about the pulps. From 1949 until his death in 1968, he gathered together the best of the magazine SF stories into over 40 anthologies that helped define the genre. It's quite possible these works and authors would have just been forgotten if it weren't for Groff Conklin.Ĭonklin was not an author nor was he a magazine editor. Until the 50s, novels were few and far between, and were often "fix-ups" - a group of previously published short stories set in the same universe (e.g., The Foundation Trilogy, The Martian Chronicles).
They appeared for a month in a pulp magazine, then were never seen again. Bud Webster's Index to Groff Conklin anthologies (click on the image to purchase)Īt first, science fiction stories were ephemeral.
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