Some of the highly acclaimed Winston Science Fiction novels are making their way into the ebook universe. You can read about the series here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Science_Fiction
Although these are what was termed "juvenile novels," they were rendered by reputable authors and capture the 50's spirit of scifi perfectly.
Besides being a lot of fun, these stories foreshadow many ideas that grew into prominent themes for movies and television. Take this one, for example:
Danger: Dinosaurs! by Evan Hunter
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eb...nger-dinosaurs
"Owen Spencer would never have agreed to lead the time-slip expedition back to the Jurassic period — the Age of Reptiles — had he foreseen the terrifying experiences in store for the small group making the expedition. Chartering the expedition was Dirk Masterson, a treacherous big game hunter, whose alleged purpose was to take pictures of the enormous reptiles that roamed Jurassic times. Even when Masterson smashed the jeep into the force field, destroying the only protection that stood between the group and the lumbering beasts, Owen could not be sure it was an accident."
Now doesn't THAT sound familiar?
The Kobo store currently offers ten of the 37 original Winston titles. Thunderchild Publishing has made these available including the terrific original cover art!
Six are by Lester Del Rey:
* Mission to the Moon
* Step to the Stars
* Marooned on Mars
* Battle on Mercury
* Rockets to Nowhere
* Rockets Through Space (non-fiction)
Three from Evan Hunter (or Richard Marsten, or Ed McBain; same person!):
* Danger: Dinosaurs!
* Find the Feathered Serpent
* Rocket to Luna
And a single title from Paul Capon
* The World at Bay
These ebooks are selling for $2.99, but they do come as EPUB2 (DRM-Free) files.
I wonder if we will see the rest of these? Other famous authors in the series include Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Vance, Ben Bova, and Poul Anderson. I guess the copyright status would be difficult to untangle in some cases.
As a kid growing up in the sixties, it was always a treat to find a battered copy of a Winston SciFi buried in the public library stacks. Now we can read them on our very own tricorders. Isn't life ... fascinating?
