Astounding Days by Arthur C Clarke
is subtitled "A Science Fictional Autobiography", and is done in the
form of reviewing the various years in which Astounding (back before it
was Analog) was published, through John W Campbell's editorship, and
reminisces about the stories in the issue or about people the issue reminds him
of. He also discusses some amount of what he
was doing in his mundane or writing lives at
the same time. He keeps looping back to some of the
same stories and being non-linear in time. It's an incredibly off-beat way to
do an autobiography, but does serve the purpose of providing a list of
interesting stories to go back and read. The Clarke stories are easy, since
I've got the Tor volume of all Clarke's short fiction and most
of his novels on the shelf. But I've just grabbed a volume of Stanley
Weinbaum's short stories based on Clarke's comments.
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