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  • 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 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…

  • BEACHHEADS IN SPACE edited by August Derleth

    TITLE: BEACHHEADS IN SPACE EDITED BY: August Derleth CATEGORY: Anthology SUB-CATEGORY: Short Fiction FORMAT: Hardback, 224 pages PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1954 (Originally published in the US in 1952 by Pellegrini & Cudahy). That\’s the various general details, here\’s a listing of the contents: \”Beachhead\” by Clifford D. Simak (1951) \”The Years Draw Nigh\”…

  • VOYAGERS IN TIME edited by Robert Silverberg

    [I]n my last SF Anthologies post I commented that I\’d recently bought a couple of nice old SF anthologies from Amazon UK. I made a few comments about the newer of the two anthologies, TRIPS IN TIME and gave a contents listing for it. Here\’s the same routine for the second anthology, which was published…

  • VOYAGERS IN TIME edited by Robert Silverberg

    TITLE: VOYAGERS IN TIME – Twelve Stories of Science Fiction EDITED BY: Robert Silverberg CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHER: Meredith Press, New York, 1967 FORMAT: Hardcover, 243 pages. In my last post I commented that I\’d recently bought a couple of nice old SF anthologies from Amazon UK. I made a few comments about…