Minions of the Moon
 Dust-jacket from the first edition | |
| Author | William Gray Beyer |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Edd Cartier |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Gnome Press |
Publication date | 1950 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 190 |
| OCLC | 1296689 |
Minions of the Moon is a science fiction novel by American writer William Gray Beyer, originally serialized in the magazine Argosy in 1939. It was published in book form in 1950 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000.
Plot introduction[]
The novel is a space opera about a contemporary man who awakens in the far future.
Reception[]
Boucher and McComas gave Minions a mixed review, describing it as "a conventional enough sleeper-wakes-into-retrograde-world story, but told with a fine blend of high romantic adventure and lively absurdity.".[1] Damon Knight found the novel an "old-style romance, somewhat the worse for wear".[2] P. Schuyler Miller declared that the author's treatment of "Omega, [the] puckish, hammish disembodied superintelligence, last survivor of the lunar race of whatsits," sets the novel apart from the routine.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Recommended Reading," F&SF, December 1950, p.104
- ^ "The Dissecting Table", Worlds Beyond, December 1950, p.115
- ^ "Book Reviews", Astounding Science Fiction. March 1951, p.147
Sources[]
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 299.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 43. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
External links[]
- Minions of the Moon title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- 1939 American novels
- 1939 science fiction novels
- American science fiction novels
- Space opera novels
- Novels set on the Moon
- Works originally published in Argosy (magazine)
- Novels first published in serial form
- Gnome Press books