Sci-Fi let us all down
And I’m glad it did
6 min readJul 25, 2018
On a hot summer day in 1990, I saw the box at the back of a garage sale. The old man who owned the hundreds of books in it had died that spring. He was a pure, devoted geek with active subscriptions to the incredible science fiction digests of the 1940's and 50’s. I pulled out dusty copies of Fantastic Tales and Out of This World Adventures.
