From the folks at Tachyon, and coming out at the beginning of September is Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods! Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, edited by Richard Wolinsky. Wolinsky ran a radio show called Probabilities from 1977 through about 2000 - the main series ended in 1995, but a spin-off kept going a few years longer, less often and not as focused on SF. This is a blended history of SF based on those interviews - Wolinsky has edited it all together chronologically, with a lot of linking and explanatory material, rather than running fifty or so short radio interviews separately.
Interviews were originally conducted by Wolinsky, SF writer Richard A. Lupoff (who also provided a foreword before his 2019 death) and Lawrence Davidson, who I think was from the radio station itself.
This basically is an oral history of early SF, recorded beginning almost fifty years ago but covering primarily the years ten to fifty years earlier than that - this is as I understand it. It's an interesting thing, pulled out of the archives, and a lot of major names participated - from Ackerman to Zelazny, with Bradbury and Carr and Dick and Ellison and Freas and so forth in the middle of the alphabet. I wouldn't expect much from any one person - these were radio interviews - but the accumulated weight is impressive.
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