Shasta Publishers
Shasta Publishers | |
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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 |
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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) |
literature
- Malcolm Edwards: Shasta Publishers. In: John Clute , Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated December 20, 2011.
Web links
- Shasta Publishers , entry in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Shasta Publishers in Fancyclopedia 3 , accessed March 10, 2018