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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (hardcover)

Originally published
  
1948

Publisher
  
Crown Publishing Group

Editor
  
Groff Conklin

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Publication date
  
1948

Pages
  
ix, 517 pp.

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Country
  
United States of America

Author
  
edited by Groff Conklin

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A Treasury of Science Fiction is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Groff Conklin. It was first published in hardcover by Crown Publishers in 1948, and reprinted in March 1951. A later edition was issued by Bonanza Books/Crown Publishers in March 1980. An abridged paperback version including eight of its thirty stories was published by Berkley Books in July 1957 and reprinted in January 1958 and January 1965.

The book collects thirty novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, together with an introduction by the editor. The stories were previously published from 1929-1947 in various science fiction and other magazines.

Contents

  • "Introduction" (Groff Conklin)
  • "The Nightmare" (Chan Davis)
  • "Tomorrow's Children" (Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop)
  • "The Last Objective" (Paul Carter)
  • "Loophole" (Arthur C. Clarke)
  • "The Figure" (Edward Grendon)
  • "The Great Fog" (H. F. Heard)
  • "The Chrysalis" (P. Schuyler Miller)
  • "Living Fossil" (L. Sprague de Camp)
  • "N Day" (Philip Latham)
  • "With Folded Hands" (Jack Williamson)
  • "No Woman Born" (C. L. Moore)
  • "With Flaming Swords" (Cleve Cartmill)
  • "Children of the "Betsy B"" (Malcolm Jameson)
  • "Child's Play" (William Tenn)
  • "The Person from Porlock" (Raymond F. Jones)
  • "Juggernaut" (A. E. van Vogt)
  • "The Eternal Man" (D. D. Sharp)
  • "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" (Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore))
  • "Time and Time Again" (H. Beam Piper)
  • "Housing Shortage" (Harry Walton)
  • "Flight of the Dawn Star" (Robert Moore Williams)
  • "Vintage Season" (Lawrence O'Donnell (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore))
  • "Of Jovian Build" (Oscar J. Friend)
  • "Wings Across the Cosmos" (Polton Cross)
  • "The Embassy" (Martin Pearson)
  • "Dark Mission" (Lester del Rey)
  • "The Ethical Equations" (Murray Leinster)
  • "It's Great to Be Back" (Robert A. Heinlein)
  • "Tools" (Clifford D. Simak)
  • "Rescue Party" (Arthur C. Clarke)

    • References

    A Treasury of Science Fiction Wikipedia
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