Category: SF Short Fiction

  • CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION – THE FIRST GOLDEN AGE edited by Terry Carr

    [H]ere is yet another SF anthology edited by one of my favourite SF anthologists, Terry Carr. It\’s a nice, beefy one this time, at 445 pages, with twelve stories, plus an introduction by Carr. I know most people usually dive on into the stories first, but take may advice, and do NOT skip the Introduction.…

  • THE MARATHON PHOTOGRAPH AND OTHER STORIES (1986)
    by
    Clifford D. Simak

    [T]his time out, we have a single author collection of short fiction by one of my favourite authors, Clifford D. Simak, in which all of the stories have an underlying thematic link dealing with the mysterious paradox of time. It\’s quite a short collection, at only 171 pages, and only four stories (making it a…

  • THE MARATHON PHOTOGRAPH AND OTHER STORIES (1986) by Clifford D. Simak

    This time out, we have a single author collection of short fiction by one of my favourite authors, Clifford D. Simak, in which all of the stories have an underlying thematic link dealing with the mysterious paradox of time. It\’s quite a short collection, at only 171 pages, and only four stories (making it a…

  • STORIES FOR TOMORROW (1954) edited by William Sloane

    [I]\’ve got an interesting anthology in front of me at the moment. Actually, I\’ve got two different editions of it. Firstly an original US 1st Edition hardback, which I bought from a dealer on Amazon. This is an ex-library copy, and came without a dustjacket, otherwise the book itself is in excellent condition. The other…

  • BUG-EYED MONSTERS edited by Anthony Cheetham

    [T]his is a nice little anthology, containing ten stories (more accurately NINE stories and one radio play adaptation) spanning thirty years 1938-1968. It is edited by Anthony Cheetham, with whom I am totally unfamiliar. TITLE: BUG-EYED MONSTERS EDITED BY: Anthony Cheetham CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology FORMAT: Hardback, 280 pages PUBLISHER: Sidgwick & Jackson, London,…

  • POSSIBLE WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION edited by Groff Conklin

    [T]his is an interesting anthology, edited by one of the great classic SF anthologists, and another of my favourites, Groff Conklin. TITLE: POSSIBLE WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION EDITED BY: Groff Conklin CATEGORY: Anthology SUB-CATEGORY: Short Fiction FORMAT: Hardback, 256 pages PUBLISHER: Grayson & Grayson, Ltd, London, 1952. CONTENTS: Introduction by Groff Conklin PART ONE: THE…

  • A SENSE OF WONDER edited by Sam Moskowitz

    [A]t only 197 pages long, A SENSE OF WONDER is quite a short anthology. But it\’s also an old favourite of mine. TITLE: A SENSE OF WONDER EDITED BY: Sam Moskowitz CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology FORMAT: Hardback, 197 pages PUBLISHER: Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1967. Originally published in the US in 1967 by Doubleday…

  • SCIENCE FICTION edited by S. H. Burton

    TITLE: SCIENCE FICTION EDITED BY: S. H. Burton CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology FORMAT: Hardback, 245 pages PUBLISHER: Longman, The Heritage of Literature Series, London, 1967. CONTENTS: Introduction by S. H. Burton \”Requiem\” by Robert A. Heinlein (Astounding Science Fiction, January 1940) \”A Present from Joe\” by Eric Frank Russell (Astounding Science Fiction, February 1949)…

  • THE GREAT SF STORIES VOL. 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

    TITLE: ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE GREAT SF STORIES VOL. 1 (1939) EDITED BY: Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg CATEGORY: Anthology SUB-CATEGORY: Short Fiction FORMAT: Paperback, 432 pages PUBLISHER: DAW Books, New York, 1st Printing, March 1979. Those are the various general details, and here\’s a listing of the contents: Introduction by Isaac Asimov \”I,…

  • SCIENCE FICTION OF THE THIRTIES edited by Damon Knight

    TITLE: SCIENCE FICTION OF THE THIRTIES EDITED BY: Damon Knight CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHER: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis/New York, 1975 FORMAT: Hardback, 1st Edition, 464 pages CONTENTS: Foreword by Damon Knight \”Out Around Rigel\” by Robert H. Wilson (1931) \”The Fifth-Dimension Catapult\” by Murray Leinster (1931) \”Into the Meteorite Orbit\” by Frank…