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Category: SF Anthologies

  • THE EARLY POHL (1976) by Frederik Pohl

    This time out, I’m going to take a look at a collection of very early stories by one of my favourite SF writers, who also happened to be one of the best editors in the SF industry, and one of the true titans of the SF world, Frederik Pohl. The eight stories and single poem…

  • BEYOND THE BARRIERS OF SPACE AND TIME edited by Judith Merril

    This time around, we have an SF anthology. This one is an oldie, from 1955, and is compiled and edited by Judith Merril, another of my favourite anthologists. This is the first Judith Merril anthology that I’ve featured on this blog, and most certainly won’t be the last. TITLE: BEYOND THE BARRIERS OF SPACE AND…

  • 6 GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE FICTION (1954) edited by Groff Conklin

    For this post, we have an anthology, this one from 1954. It\’s another from one of the old dependables and one of my own personal favourite anthologists, Groff Conklin. This anthology is a paperback, published by Dell, one of their Dell First Edition range, number D9, to be precise. It\’s billed as \”six short novels…

  • 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.…

  • 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,…