Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales
Editors | Isaac Asimov and Groff Conklin |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Collier Books |
Publication date | 1963 |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 287 |
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales is an anthology of science fiction short stories and poems edited by Isaac Asimov and Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Collier Books in 1963 and reprinted in 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, and 1978; a later reprint was issued by Scribner Paperback Fiction in August 1997. The book has been translated into Italian.[1]
The book collects fifty short stories and two poems by various science fiction authors, together with two introductions, one by each editor. The pieces were previously published from 1941 to 1962 in various magazines, not only of science fiction.[1]
Contents[]
- "Introduction No. 1" (Isaac Asimov)
- "Introduction No. 2" (Groff Conklin)
- "Ballade of an Artificial Satellite" (poem) (Poul Anderson)
- "The Fun They Had" (Isaac Asimov)
- "Men Are Different" ()
- "The Ambassadors" (Anthony Boucher)
- "The Weapon" (Fredric Brown)
- "Random Sample" (T. P. Caravan)
- "Oscar" (Cleve Cartmill)
- "The Mist" ()
- "Teething Ring" ()
- "The Haunted Space Suit" (Arthur C. Clarke)
- "Stair Trick" (Mildred Clingerman)
- "Unwelcome Tenant" (Roger Dee)
- "The Mathematicians" (Arthur Feldman)
- "The Third Level" (Jack Finney)
- "Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful!" ()
- "The Figure" (Edward Grendon)
- "The Rag Thing" (David Grinnell)
- "The Good Provider" ()
- "Columbus Was a Dope" (Robert A. Heinlein)
- "Texas Week" ()
- "Hilda" ()
- "The Choice" ()
- "Not With a Bang" (Damon Knight)
- "The Altar at Midnight" (C. M. Kornbluth)
- "A Bad Day for Sales" (Fritz Leiber)
- "Who's Cribbing?" ()
- "Spectator Sport" (John D. MacDonald)
- "The Cricket " (Avro Manhattan)
- "Double-Take" ()
- "Prolog" ()
- "The Available Data on the Worp Reaction" ()
- "Narapoia" ()
- "Tiger by the Tail" (Alan E. Nourse)
- "Counter Charm" (Peter Phillips)
- "The Fly" (Arthur Porges)
- "The Business, As Usual" (Mack Reynolds)
- "Two Weeks in August" (Frank M. Robinson)
- "See?" ()
- "Appointment at Noon" (Eric Frank Russell)
- "We Don't Want Any Trouble" (James H. Schmitz)
- "Built Down Logically" ()
- "An Egg a Month from All Over" (Idris Seabright)
- "The Perfect Woman" (Robert Sheckley)
- "The Hunters" ()
- "The Martian and the Magician" (Evelyn E. Smith)
- "Barney" (Will Stanton)
- "Talent" (Theodore Sturgeon)
- "Project Hush" (William Tenn)
- "The Great Judge" (A. E. van Vogt)
- "Emergency Landing" (Ralph Williams)
- "Obviously Suicide" (S. Fowler Wright)
- "Six Haiku" (poem) (Karen Anderson)
References[]
- ^ a b Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Categories:
- 1963 short story collections
- Science fiction anthologies
- Isaac Asimov anthologies
- Groff Conklin anthologies