Thom reviewed The Fifties by Barry N. Malzberg
Review of 'The Fifties' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
With one exception, my ratings of fiction anthologies are either a 3 or a 4 - I just checked. This one doesn't make it to 5, but is a solid 4. Articles at the beginning and end claim that the fifties was the golden time for science fiction, the glorious "summer". As a genre, it is compared to mystery, where the golden ages were a bit earlier.
Buy it or not, this is a solid collection of science fiction (verging towards fantasy at times). Each story has an informative afterword. Like other anthologies, this one sat in my car for months, entertaining me in three states and countless waits. I hope that collections such as these will become more available in the electronic form soon.