Probably a later single edition, not this Ace Double. Somehow that triggered a memory in me - I was sure I knew the book.Īs you'll have guessed looking at the cover image displayed here, that book was Daybreak - 2250 A.D. My brother-in-law didn't remember the title or author, just the cover - a guy poling a raft through ruins. It seems his father (my father-in-law, though he died before I ever met my wife), found him reading it, took it away from him, ripped it in half and threw it out, telling him he didn't want his son reading any trashy Sci-Fi stuff, or words to that effect. A number of years ago my brother-in-law, knowing I know a lot about science fiction, told me about a book he read when he was a kid. One reason I bought this Ace Double is oddly personal.
(Note that Brackett was just 63, and to date the youngest people to be named SFWA Grand Masters are Connie Willis and Joe Haldeman, who were 66.)) (No disrepect to Norton, who after all was a year younger than Moore, nor to Leigh Brackett, 3 years younger than Norton, who died in 1978, probably a few years before she'd have had a chance to be named. In 1984, Andre Norton became the first woman to be officially named an SFWA Grand Master, though in my mind, C. Fair enough, I dare say, but I think something could have been worked out. To be more fair to them, their stated motive was that Moore by that time was suffering from dementia, and was in no shape to either understand the award, or to tolerate any ceremony about it. Moore's family (that of her second husband, that is), who were apparently quite hostile to science fiction, refused to allow her to be given the award shortly before her death.
Here's an Ace Double pairing what should have been the first two women to become SFWA Grand Masters. Ace Double Reviews, 114: Daybreak - 2250 A.D., by Andre Norton/ Beyond Earth's Gates, by Lewis Padgett and C.
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