Science Fiction & Fantasy at Special Collections

Click on the images below to learn more. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1933 The Further Adventures of Lucky Starr, Isaac Asimov, 1985. The Puppet Masters, Robert A. Heinlein, 1951 Inscription from The Puppet Masters Danger in Deep Space, Cary Rockwell, 1953 Asimov's Science Fiction, 2002

Our collection is strongest in the decade of the nineteen eighties although its earliest recognized titles date from both sides of the turn of the Twentieth Century. Of special interest are the in-depth collections of major science fiction periodicals from the 1920s and 1930s.

Of necessity, the collection is divided into four parts according to volume treatment:

• The first part contains those volumes which have received full cataloguing in the Library of Congress classification. These are fully searchable using the library's online catalog, TULANet Voyager.
  
  
• The second part of the collection holds those items which have received a special Tulane "in process" number. These are searchable on TULANet Voyager by author and title, but to request them, you must go to online catalog record's "staff view" and note the "in process" number, which is on the line that begins "035__".
  
  
• The third part, and probably six times larger than the first two combined, is arranged alphabetically first by author then secondarily by title. These are not searchable online, but can be found through a printed index in the Special Collections reading room.
  
  
• The last segment of the collection contains periodical runs. Many of these are from the early Twentieth Century, but the collection also includes current periodicals.

An index, arranged by author/editor and title, and including publishing dates, is available in the Special Collections reading room on the second floor of Jones Hall.