The Engines of the Night
“appeared in Robert Lowndes’ Future Science Fiction. Any history of the decade in science fiction must draw attention to this; if nothing else it will work against undue sentiment or self-delusion. Future was one of the longer-lived of the thirty or forty magazines that were born to perish within the decade; it paid a penny a word (less to unknown writers) around or after publication and had a circulation of, at the most optimistic estimate, thirty thousand as opposed to the one hundred that Gal...axy or Astounding achieved at least intermittently. (And to keep all of this in perspective, let us recall that The Saturday Evening Post had a circulation of seven million and Playboy, starting from Hefner’s garage in 1953, had exceeded two million by 1957. Science fiction then as now was a small field.)“The Liberation of Earth,” perhaps the most sophisticated antiwar story ever to appear in science fiction (my own late-sixties “Final War” and Effinger’s “All the Last Wars at Once”MoreLess
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