While this may not seem exciting to some, today at my local library book sale, I found a thick paperback from 1970 called, "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One" for only 25 Cents. I bought it even though I haven't found enough to pay this months rent. I got my priorities I guess.

The book is important to me because several stories are from the 1930's, the rest are from the 40's and 50's and many are bases for episodes to one of my favorite Old Time Radio Shows... "X-Minus One". If you ever get a chance to hear these shows you just might get hooked and have to have all of them.

The short stories in the book that were transformed into my fav Radio Drama episodes are:

James Blish - Surface Tension
Ray Bradbury - Mars is Heaven
Isaac Asimov - Nightfall
Tom Godwin - The Cold Equations

But there are so many other great stories... I think I really love the so-called Golden Age of SciFi more than what I'm reading currently, even though the writing, I think is better today...

I was talking with a friend about how we don't seem to have the sense of wonder anymore because technology is flying by us so fast we can't keep up and our imagination must really strain hard to stay in front of the parade.

It's fun sometimes to read a story where in the far future of 1977 men will colonize Mars, or that night comes only ever thousand years, or where ad agencies try marketing new products to us even though we've already died in a Nuclear explosion that we have to keep reliving because we are actually action figures with brain cells that can only hold the last 24 Hours of our life and we've just discovered a tunnel under our house that leads us to the edge of town were we uncover the secret that we are living in a city that's really just a tabletop miniature and we should have just shut up, mind our own business, and smoked the cigarettes the radio ads in the elevator told us to...

You know, the good stuff!