Gathered here are ninety-eight classic tales from the golden age of science fiction, when pulp magazines first carried readers to distant planets, future centuries, and worlds ruled by machines. From first contact and interstellar war to time travel and utopias gone wrong, these stories by the era's most imaginative writers laid the foundation for modern science fiction. A sweeping, career-spanning anthology and the definitive Chronicle Vault collection of speculative fiction's formative decades. Rockets, ray guns, and worlds beyond imagining.