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Far Boundaries

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1951

Pages
  
x, 292 pp

Author
  
3.5/5
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Publisher
  
Pellegrini & Cudahy

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1951

Country
  
United States of America

Genres
  
Short story, Science Fiction

Similar
  
August Derleth books, Short Stories

Far Boundaries is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth. It was first published by Pellegrini & Cudahy in 1951. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Variety, Dublin Literary Magazine, Knight’s Quarterly Magazine, Scribner's, Astounding Stories, The Arkham Sampler, Planet Stories, Super Science Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Blue Book and Galaxy.

Contents

Contents

  • "From a Private Mad-House", by Humphrey Repton
  • "Missing One’s Coach: An Anachronism", Anon.
  • "Tale of a Chemist", Anon.
  • "The Last American", by J. A. Mitchell
  • "Infinity Zero", by Donald Wandrei
  • "Frankenstein—Unlimited", by H. A. Highstone
  • "Open, Sesame!", by Stephen Grendon
  • "Tepondicon", by Carl Jacobi
  • "The Fear Planet", by Robert Bloch
  • "De Profundis", by Murray Leinster
  • "Invasion", by Frank Belknap Long
  • "'Dear Pen Pal'", by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Time to Rest", by John Beynon Harris
  • "An Ounce of Prevention", by Paul A. Carter
  • "The Song of the Pewee", by Stephen Grendon
  • "And Lo! The Bird", by Nelson S. Bond
  • "The One Who Waits", by Ray Bradbury
  • "Holiday", by Ray Bradbury
  • "The Man Who Rode the Saucer", by Kenyon Holmes
  • "Later Than You Think", by Fritz Leiber
  • Reception

    P. Schuyler Miller received the anthology favorably, characterizing it as a "source-book in imaginative literature." The Meriden Record praised Far Boundaries as "a well-rounded anthology capable of causing the mind to spin at the same time that it makes the spine crawl."

    References

    Far Boundaries Wikipedia


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