GNOME PRESS.TOMORROW & TOMORROW / THE FAIRY CHESSMEN by Lewis Padgett (Hardcover)

CONDITION GOOD, SLIGHT CHIP & TEAR ON DUST JACKET.

AUTHOR: LEWIS PADGETT

CATEGORY SCIENCE FICTION

PUBLISHER GNOME PRESS 1ST EDITION 1951 4000 COPIES

GNOME PRESS

AN AMERICAN SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY KNOWN FOR PUBLISHING MANY SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS. GNOME WAS ONE OF THE MOST EMINENT OF THE FAN PUBLISHERS OF SCIENCE FICTION PRODUCING 86 TITLES IN ITS LIFESPAN. GNOME HELPED TO TRANSITION SCIENCE FICTION FROM MAGAZINE PHENOMENON TO MASS MARKET PUBLISHING BUT PROVED TO BE TO UNDERFUNDED TO MAKE THE LEAP FROM FAN BASED PUBLISHING TO THE PROFESSIONAL LEVEL. AFTER 10 YEARS IT FADED DUE TO ITS INABILITY TO COMPETE WITH MAJOR PUBLISHERS.

SYNOPSIS

2 SHORT NOVELS PUBLISHED IN "ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION"

TOMORROW & TOMORROW

AFTER WORLD WAR 2 & ABORTIVE WORLD WAR 3 THE GLOBAL PEACE COMMISSION HAS TAKEN CONTROL OF THE WORLD & ENFORCED A STASIS REGARDING TECHNOLOGICAL & SOCIAL CHANGE TO AVOID ANOTHER WAR.

THE FAIRY CHESSMEN

THERE ARE ONLY TWO NATIONS ON EARTH. AMERICA IS THE ONE WHERE THE STORY TAKES PLACE & THE FALANGISTS (THE RESULT OF A EUROPEAN UNION) THE OTHER. TWO NATIONS IN TOTAL WAR AGAINST EACH OTHER.