Description

In this episode, host Oliver Brackenbury wanders the stacks of the Merril Collection with Services Specialist Annette Mocek and learns how acclaimed sci-fi writer Judith Merril transformed a small "Spaced Out Library" into one of the world's largest collections of genre fiction.

Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:

• The Merril Collection!

• Friends of Merril (Facebook & Twitter)

• Merril Collection at 50: Stories from the Spaced Out Library

• The Works of Cyril Judd, Judith's Nom De Plume

• Shadow on the Hearth by Judith Merril

• Pulp artist Virgil Finley

• The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books

• Friends of the Osborne Collection

• Lillian H. Smith Library

• Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Phyllis Gotlieb

• The Little Green Man

  • Sept 1954 issue of Astounding

• Martians Go Home by Frederick Brown

• Frank Kelly Freas