Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book

Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book – Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book – Rayguns and Rocketships! Ladies in spacesuits caught in the tentacles of evil insectoid aliens! Who could resist such wonders? Science fiction paperbacks exploded onto the literary landscape in the 1940s and 1950s with the force of an alien gamma bomb. Titles such as Rodent Mutation!, Beyond the Galaxy, Dawn of the Mutants, and Mushroom Men from Mars appeared from short-lived publishers taking advantage of the end of post-war paper rationing. They were brash and seductive – for a shilling, the future was yours.