1951 A year in Science fiction

Here is a list of books published/written in 1951 that I have read:

Isaac Asimov - Foundation
Ray Bradbury - The illustrated man 5 stars
L Sprague du camp - Rogue Queen 3 stars
Arthur C Clarke - Prelude to Space
Hal Clement - Iceworld 3.5 stars
Philip Jose Farmer - The lovers) 3stars
Austin Hall - The Blind Spot ( 2.5 stars
Robert A Heinlien - The Green Hills of Earth 3.5 stars
Robert A Heinlien - The Puppet masters 3.5 stars
Clifford Simak - Time and Again 3.5 stars
Philip Wylie - The Disappearance 4 stars
John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids 5 stars
Leigh Brackett - People of the Talisman Shadow over Mars 3 stars
Fritz Leiber - Gather Darkness 3 stars
H P Lovecraft - The Haunter of the dark 5 stars
Isaac Asimov - Stars like Dust 2 stars
Robert Spencer Carr - Beyond Infinity 3 stars
Arthur Koestler - The age of Longing, Arthur koestler 5 stars
Lewis Padgett and C L Moore - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and the fairy chessman 3.5 stars
William F Temple - four sided triangle 4 stars
Jack Williamson (Will Stewart) - Seetee ship 3 stars
Stanley Mullen - Kinsmen of the Dragon 3.5 stars
L Ron Hubbard - Typewriter in the sky/Fear 3 stars
Raymond F Jones - Renaissance 3.5 stars
The Frederic Brown Megapack 3.5
Sam Merwin jnr - The House of Many Worlds 3 stars
Malcolm Jameson - Bullard of the Space Patrol - 2.5 stars.
Lord Dunsany - The Last revolution 2.5 stars.
Edmond Hamilton - City At Worlds End 3.5 stars
Jack Vance - Son of the tree 3 stars
Raymond F Jones - The Alien 3 stars
Groff Conklin - Possible worlds of Science Fiction 3.5 star
Groff Conklin - In the Grip of Terror 3 star
Jack Williamson - Dragon's Island 4 star

Books still to read:
Raymond F Jones - The Toymaker
Arthur C Clarke - Sands of Mars.
Gideon Clark - To make a world
August Derleth - The Outer reaches
John D McDonald - Planet of the Dreamers
Sterling Noel - I Killed Stalin
George O Smith - Pattern for Conquest
Hal Annas - The longsnozzle Event
Hal Annas - Maid-to-Order
Manley Wade Wellman - Twice in Time
Clifford D Simak - Empire
Robert A Heinlein - Between planets
John Taine - Seeds of Life
Cyril Judd - Outpost Mars/Sin in Space
Mack Reynolds - The case of the little Green Men
James Blish - The Warriors of Today
Frederick Brown - What mad universe
John W Campbell - The moon is hell
John Russell Fearn - The petrified Planet
Paul W Fairman - Whom the gods would slay
Daniel R Gilgannon - Stopwatch on the world
Fletcher Pratt - World of Wonder
E E Doc Smith - Gray Lensmen
Wilson Tucker - The City in the sea
S Fowler Wright - The Amphibians
S Fowler Wright - The world Below
Willy Ley - Dragons in amber
Willy Ley - Rocket missiles and Space travel
Cyril Judd - Mars Child
Gerald Heard - Is another world watching
Eric Frank Russell - Dreadful Sanctuary
Fred Hoyle - The Nature of the Universe
L Sprague de Camp - The Undesired Princess
Fletcher Pratt - World of Wonder
Isaac Asimov presents the Great SF stories No.13 1951
Raymond Z Gallun - Passport to Jupiter.

Can anybody beat this list for 1951 science fiction books - Would anybody want to?

Does anybody know books that I have missed?

Do you count as a 1951 ones novels which were serialized in 1950 (in 1 or more parts) in a magazine but then published in book form in 1951? Or are they 1950 in your counting? Such as City at World's End by Edmond Hamilton for example?

PS: Never mind - looking at the list answered that - Time and Again is on your list and it is in that category as well. Although it was in 3 parts and not as 1 as the Hamilton. Does that make a difference for your counting? Or does the different ending of the Simak serialization compared to the novel itself make a difference?

>1 baswood: I've read just a few of those titles, and don't currently feel drawn to go back for more. I was interested, though, to see that Koestler wrote SF, although neither the work you linked to (by Richard Wright) nor the novel of the same name by Koestler seems to fit into the genre.

Of those you haven't read, I enjoyed The Dying Earth quite a bit.

>2 AnnieMod: Yes I have read City at Worlds End - I will add it to the list.
I am sure there are other errors on the actual year of publication, because of publication in series format in the pulp mags. I have tried to stick to published in book form.

>3 Jim53: I have changed the link to the Koestler novel. It is a sort of alternative history and just about creeps into the science fiction genre. It is an excellent book. I hope to get to the Jack Vance book soon.

>5 baswood: I'll have to keep an eye out for the Koestler. The only thing of his that I've read is Darkness at Noon. Thanks for alerting me to it.

What a fun list! It was indeed quite a year.I would add Simak's Empire,and just as pure fun,a Heinlein juvenile,Between Planets
I love the 50s,pulpy fun for the most part,but the shadow of a devastating nuclear war produced some of the greatest works in SF/Fantasy.Shockingly,I have only read 16 of the 46 books on your list,I would have thought my score would be higher since I read a lot of vintage stuffbut co-incidentally Philip Wylie's The Disappearance is on my April TBR :0).
At the moment for the 50s I am diving into Kuttner/Moore,in all their combinations and pseudonyms. At the moment I am reading C L Moore's Northwest of Earth,lush purple prose,but her voice is unique for the time.A female perspective on even the tritest of pulp themes adds nuances and interesting ideas

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I can rarely afford to buy books - 4 children,6 grandkids,and 6 great grandkids to cater to on basic pension,Eek - so I have really given high praise to Internet Archive with its Open Library service,which has given me access to so many of these old books.True,they are scanned copies of often battered old books,but I have at least been able to read them.
At the moment there is a lot of unease at Open Library.. The big publishers are trying to have them closed down,or they want revenues from people borrowing books from the archive. Boston Library in particular has digitally provided a huge number of books to the Archive. I would never have progressed through all the WWEnd lists without their putting the books out for our free access.I only had to buy 6 books to complete the Hugo and Nebula listsI always smile with satisfaction when I see the Boston library bookplate in a scanned copy of an old book.The case began on Monday 20th,we can but wait and see how things pan out. Open Library'argument is that once a library has bought a book,it is within their remit to lend it out freely in any particular format. The publishers are agin it. I suppose if they could they would close all libraries altogether. Free access? Shocking. Libraries have been fighting for a hundred years against such enemies. We can but pray Open Library wins the day once again.Fingers crossed.

>7 dustydigger: Thank you for those two now added to my list.

You are right the internet archive and open library is a great resource for older books. There are even some at Project Gutenberg. Amazing that you managed the Hugo and Nebula award lists with buying so few books. Apart from reading books published in 1951 I have other projects: reading Elizabethan Literature and Proto science fiction and so I rely on open libraries for most of my reading.

>1 baswood:

I cannot see on your list

The Sands of Mars by Clarke which was 1951 (at least in the UK)
Outpost Mars by Cyril Judd (Cyril M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril) which appeared in magazine form in 1951.
Seeds of Life by John Taine - first published in book form in 1951 but previously in magazines (1931?)
The Weapon Shops of Isher by AE Van Vogt was 1951.
The Case of the Little Green Men by Mack Reynolds was 1951.

BTW Gill Hunt was a house pseudonym. Galactic Storm was written by John Brunner if ISFDB is to be believed. There are other 1951 "Gill Hunt" books one of which Hostile Worlds which was really written by Denis Hughes. Looking at things Denis Hughes churned out around 15 (maybe not all SF) books that year (although he was only getting warmed up he did over 20 the next year) - so the quality of those may be low. John Russell Fearn was also fairly busy in 1951 under a number of pseudonyms (Vargo Statten, Astron del Martia, Hugo Blayn, Earl Titan) as well as his own.

Thank you >9 andyl: I can't believe I had not read The Sands of Mars one of the most obvious picks from that year.

I have read The Weapon Shops of Isher which I think is a short story, but the other three Seeds of Life, Outpost Mars and The Case of the Little Green men I will add to the 'to read list'
I will do more research into "Gill Hunt" "Denis Hughes" and "John Russell Fearn"
Thank you for all the information at this rate the 'to read' list is in danger of overtaking the 'have read' list.

>10 baswood:

The Weapons Shops of Isher is both. It is a fix-up novel of three novellas (or maybe novelettes) one of which was also called "The Weapon Shops of Isher".

>8 baswood: Another great resource for free SF is the Luminist archive
check out - http://www.luminist.org/archives/index.htm

They are adding new titles to it regularly. Lots of good stuff from lots of authors,covering many decades.They are even starting to add some old crime fiction too,which I also like.

On the Elizabethan stuff,I am determined this year to FINALLY get round to Kit Marlowe's Dr Faustus and Webster'sThe Duchess of Malfi,but at the moment I am immersed in ancient Greek drama,,am halfway through Vergil's Aeneid and April is going to be devoted to Beowulf. Wish I could clone myself so as to read more! :0)

>12 dustydigger: Wow! That looks to be a great archive.

Well we can't talk about Elizabethan literature here, but I am reading chronologically and I am up to 1595 and immersed in Shakespeare.

As far as Victorian Proto science fiction goes My next book is
1890 Mary E Bradley Lane - Mizowa a prophecy

Nice list. There's a few that I have not read that I'd at least consider looking for. In my opinion, The Puppet Masters hasn't aged well at all, I re-read it a couple of years ago and it is now fairly terrible.