In Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto’s Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere’s largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.
Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.
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In Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto’s Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere’s largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.
Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.
The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy
Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection
25 minutes 7 seconds
4 years ago
The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy
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
Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection
In Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto’s Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere’s largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.
Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.
