The long introductions to the stories are packed with information, much of it unfamiliar, and there are useful bibliographical appendices the set as a whole is more a critical study than an anthology, and Ashley eventually recast it along those lines, greatly expanded and extended, as his ongoing The History of the Science-Fiction Magazine (see below). Ashley's first major work as an anthology editor was the four-volume The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, whose components are The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: Part 1 1926-35 (anth 1974), The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: Part 2 1936-45 (anth 1975), The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: Part 3 1946-55 (anth 1976) and The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: Part 4 1956-65 (anth 1978). Working name of UK editor and researcher Michael Raymond Donald Ashley (1948- ), who has a special expertise in the history of magazine sf, fantasy and weird fiction for this large body of significant work, he was given the Pilgrim Award for 2002.
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