Shasta Publishers

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Shasta Publishers
founding   1948
resolution   1957
Seat   Chicago

Shasta Publishers was an American small publisher specializing in science fiction and fantasy .

The publishing house was originally founded by TE Dikty , Erle Melvin Korshak and Mark Reinsberg to publish secondary literature on science fiction and fantasy. The focus was on the project first envisaged around 1940 to compile a comprehensive bibliography of SF literature. An approach taken before the USA entered the war could not be continued because Dikty was drafted and after the war the material already collected could no longer be found. Through contact with Everett Franklin Bleiler , who was interested in undertaking such a project, the plan to found a publishing house took shape.

In 1948 Bleiler's first book, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature , was published, the first book of its kind and the SF bibliographical reference work for many years until it was replaced by more recent works by Donald H. Tuck and Robert Reginald . As a result, the publisher did not publish any further secondary literature, but instead did a number of SF novels and anthologies, including now classic titles such as John W. Campbell's Who Goes There? (1948), Robert A. Heinlein's The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950) and The Green Hills of Earth (1951) and Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man

In the mid-1950s, the publisher got increasingly into financial difficulties. Most recently, a competition was held that was won by Philip José Farmer with I Owe for the Flesh . The book never came out and the prize money was never paid. Farmer's text then became the basis for his Riverworld saga. In 1957 the publisher went out.

Track list

A total of 19 titles were published by Shasta Publishers . 5 titles saw a second edition.

author title year
Everett F. Bleiler The Checklist of Fantastic Literature 1948
John W. Campbell Who Goes There? 1948
L. Ron Hubbard Slaves of Sleep 1948
L. Sprague de Camp The Wheels of If, and Other Science Fiction 1949
S. Fowler Wright The World Below 1949
Murray Leinster Sidewise in Time 1950
Robert A. Heinlein The Man Who Sold the Moon: Harriman and the Escape from Earth to the Moon! 1950 (2nd edition)
Stanley Mullen Kinsmen of the Dragon 1951
Robert A. Heinlein The Green Hills of Earth 1951
Curme Gray Murder in Millennium VI 1951
Fredric Brown Space on My Hands 1951
John W. Campbell Cloak of Aesir 1952
John W. Campbell Who Goes There? 1952 (2nd edition)
Robert A. Heinlein The Green Hills of Earth: Rhysling and the Adventure of the Entire Solar System! 1952 (2nd edition)
Raymond F. Jones This Island Earth 1952
Robert A. Heinlein Revolt in 2100 1953
Murray Leinster Space Platform 1953
Alfred Bester The Demolished Man 1953
Murray Leinster Space tug 1953
Fredric Brown , Mack Reynolds (Eds.) Science fiction Carnival 1953
Robert A. Heinlein Revolt in 2100 1954 (2nd edition)
Fredric Brown , Mack Reynolds (Eds.) Science fiction Carnival 1954 (limited and signed 2nd edition)
Robert A. Heinlein The Man Who Sold the Moon 1955
Raymond F. Jones This Island Earth 1955 (2nd edition)

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