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From 1948 to 1962, Gnome Press was a small press with an enormous impact on speculative fiction, introducing some of the most influential authors of science fiction and fantasy, including Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, C. L. Moore, and Robert E. Howard, to wider, mainstream audiences.

Alas, the history of Gnome is a cautionary tale. The publisher played a pivotal role in lifting speculative fiction out of the pulp magazines and into literary respectability, but it never achieved the business success its pioneering vision deserved.

0:41 Origins of Gnome Press
4:02 Gnome's first books in 1948-49
4:58 Proof of concepts
5:56 The period 1950-54
7:05 Iconic dust jacket artwork
8:34 Gnome's business challenges
13:18 The period 1955-59
14:22 Gnome's collapse, 1960-62
15:26 The legacy of Gnome Press
18:55 Related reading material



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