1950

2 books

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First Lensman E. E. Smith
If you can grin at 1950s pulp dialogue and heroes who are incorruptible on purpose, watching Virgil Samms trek to Arisia for the first Lens, then fight drug rings and a rigged election, is honest fun. Come to it wanting scope and momentum, not subtlety.
The Dark Other Stanley G. Weinbaum
Fair warning, this is early Weinbaum, closer to pulp romance-with-a-shadow than his Martian stuff. Still, watching Pat Lane keep loving Nick Devine while something colder keeps surfacing behind his eyes has a queasy pull, and Dr. Horker's armchair psychoanalysis is a fun period piece.