- Minions of the Moon
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Minions of the Moon 
Dust-jacket from the first editionAuthor(s) William Gray Beyer Cover artist Edd Cartier Country United States Language English Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher Gnome Press Publication date 1950 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 190 pp ISBN NA OCLC Number 1296689 Minions of the Moon is a science fiction novel by author 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
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. pp. 299.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. pp. 43. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
Categories:- 1939 novels
- 1930s science fiction novels
- Moon in fiction
- Works originally published in Argosy (magazine)
- Novels first published in serial form
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