I am old enough to remember the tail end of the Golden Age of Sci-fi.
I remember running to the corner drugstore and going directly to the magazine rack to peruse the latest edition of the many hard-core, sci-fi pulp magazines that came in every month.
If I took too long paging through them, the not so-friendly pharmacist and owner would call out behind his counter, "Hey, kid, we're not a library, here."
At this point I would grab the sci-fi mag that caught my attention the most and go to the counter and plunk my money down.
When I went home, my small, dingy room was transformed for a few days into a magnificent world of adventure and future fantasies by writers with a vision of the future I only dreamed of.
These five stories are written by those writers, which I hope take you to a world you haven't visited in a very long time.