Arkham Sampler, The Seventeen Basic SF Titles
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Arkham Sampler was a quarterly fantasy and horror magazine, edited by August Derleth, that ran eight issues beginning Winter, 1948. The Winter, 1949, issue was devoted to SF, and includes results of a survey, conducted by Derleth, of twelve writers, editors, and critics for their choices of "basic science fiction titles". Results are reproduced here from Maxim Jakubowski & Malcolm Edwards' The SF Book of Lists (Berkley, 1983), page 173.
Ranked: Yes
Titles Cited: 17
Publication: Arkham Sampler, Winter, 1949
Ranked: Yes
Titles Cited: 17
Publication: Arkham Sampler, Winter, 1949
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H. G. Wells, Seven Famous Novels by H.G. Wells
(Knopf, 1934)
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Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
(Chatto & Windus, 1932)
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Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
(Methuen, 1930)
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Raymond J. Healy & J. Francis McComas, eds., Adventures in Time and Space
(Random House , 1946)
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A. E. van Vogt, Slan
(Arkham House, 1946)
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H. G. Wells, The Short Stories of H.G. Wells
(Ernest Benn , 1927)
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August Derleth, ed., Strange Ports of Call
(Pellegrini Cudahy, 1948)
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S. Fowler Wright, The World Below
(W. Collins Sons, 1929)
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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1912)
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William Sloane, To Walk the Night
(Farrar and Rinehart, 1937)
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Olaf Stapledon, Sirius
(Secker & Warburg, 1944)
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Philip Wylie, Gladiator
(Knopf, 1930)
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John W. Campbell, Jr., Who Goes There?
(Shasta, 1948)
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Groff Conklin, ed., The Best of Science Fiction
(Crown, 1946)
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Erle Cox, Out of the Silence
(Vidler, 1925)
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Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker
(Methuen, 1937)
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John Taine, Before the Dawn
(Williams & Wilkins, 1934)
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