Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Tables
• Chronology
• Chapter One: Goodbye to all That: The Old Gateways
• One Step...Forwards?
• The Gatherings at the Gate
• The King is Dead...
• ...Long live the King
• The Forgotten Editor
• How the Mighty Fall
• Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
• The Anchor Mag
• New Blood, New Clothes
• Chapter Two: All This and Elwood Too: The Rival Gateways
• The Threat from Within
• The British Dimension
• Experiments in Orbit
• The Depths of Infinity
• From Nova to Quark
• Universe and New Dimensions
• The New Generations
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• The Female Perspective
• The Elwood Factor
• Heroes and Villains
• The Threat from Without
• Chapter Three: Small but Dangerous: The Alternate Gateways
• Little Wonders
• The Fantastic Dimension
• Graphic Developments
• Rival Roles
• Spawn of the Weird
• Under Scrutiny
• Chapter Four: Back to the Future: The Final Gateways
• The Rise and Fall of Galileo
• A Fate Worse than Death
• The Cosmos Experience
• Asimov Triumphs
• Asimov Expansion
• Amazing Days
• Star Mags
• Super Science
• SF Destiny
• Chapter Five: Looking Back: The Gateways in Perspective
• Select Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Mike Ashley has specialised in the history of science fiction and fantasy for over fifty years. He is the author and editor of over 130 books that in total have sold more than a million copies worldwide. He received the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award in 2002 for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science-fiction scholarship.

Reviews

This will undoubtedly form the definitive history of SF from the pulp to the paperback. It is an amazing book, both for the enormous amount of information it summarizes, and for the quiet authority with which it does it.