Alan Venable: 3 books

Of all the early boomers coming of age in sooty 1950s Pittsburgh, whose reverence was greater for Jimmy Doolittle and the 1950 Studebaker than that of Martin Badger? But whose bodily parts more rebellious? Whose 8th grade peers more annoying? Whose accordion more out of tune? Misdeeds more delinquent? Romances more blundered? Whose long odds worse--I mean, apart from Russo?

"Once together, never apart." So begins this folk-style tale of a young twin Sister and Brother living with their aged mountain granny until she sends them off in search of their parents and an answer to the mystery of how, as infants, they were seemingly abandoned. Courage, kindness, loyalty,...

Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. Collected in this over sized edition are...