Supriya Ghosh (Editor)

Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
8
/
10
1
Votes
Alchetron
8
1 Ratings
100
90
81
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Rate This

Rate This

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (paperback)

Originally published
  
1963

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Country
  
United States of America

4/5
Goodreads

Publication date
  
1963

Pages
  
287 pp.

Author
  
Groff Conklin

Publisher
  
Collier Books

Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales t0gstaticcomimagesqtbnANd9GcR0hyh362icMQJ8Y4

Editors
  
Groff Conklin, Isaac Asimov

Similar
  
Groff Conklin books, Science Fiction books

Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales is an anthology of science fiction short stories and poems edited by Isaac Asimov and Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Collier Books in 1963 and reprinted in 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, and 1978; a later reprint was issued by Scribner Paperback Fiction in August 1997. The book has been translated into Italian.

The book collects fifty short stories and two poems by various science fiction authors, together with two introductions, one by each editor. The pieces were previously published from 1941-1962 in various science fiction and other magazines.

Contents

  • "Introduction No. 1" (Isaac Asimov)
  • "Introduction No. 2" (Groff Conklin)
  • "Ballade of an Artificial Satellite" (poem) (Poul Anderson)
  • "The Fun They Had" (Isaac Asimov)
  • "Men Are Different" (Alan Bloch)
  • "The Ambassadors" (Anthony Boucher)
  • "The Weapon" (Fredric Brown)
  • "Random Sample" (T. P. Caravan)
  • "Oscar" (Cleve Cartmill)
  • "The Mist" (Peter Cartur)
  • "Teething Ring" (James Causey)
  • "The Haunted Space Suit" (Arthur C. Clarke)
  • "Stair Trick" (Mildred Clingerman)
  • "Unwelcome Tenant" (Roger Dee)
  • "The Mathematicians" (Arthur Feldman)
  • "The Third Level" (Jack Finney)
  • "Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful!" (Stuart Friedman)
  • "The Figure" (Edward Grendon)
  • "The Rag Thing" (David Grinnell)
  • "The Good Provider" (Marion Gross)
  • "Columbus Was a Dope" (Robert A. Heinlein)
  • "Texas Week" (Albert Hernhuter)
  • "Hilda" (H. B. Hickey)
  • "The Choice" (W. Hilton-Young)
  • "Not With a Bang" (Damon Knight)
  • "The Altar at Midnight" (C. M. Kornbluth)
  • "A Bad Day for Sales" (Fritz Leiber)
  • "Who's Cribbing?" (Jack Lewis)
  • "Spectator Sport" (John D. MacDonald)
  • "The Cricket " (Avro Manhattan)
  • "Double-Take" (Winston K. Marks)
  • "Prolog" (John P. McKnight)
  • "The Available Data on the Worp Reaction" (Lion Miller)
  • "Narapoia" (Alan Nelson)
  • "Tiger by the Tail" (Alan E. Nourse)
  • "Counter Charm" (Peter Phillips)
  • "The Fly" (Arthur Porges)
  • "The Business, As Usual" (Mack Reynolds)
  • "Two Weeks in August" (Frank M. Robinson)
  • "See?" (Edward G. Robles, Jr.)
  • "Appointment at Noon" (Eric Frank Russell)
  • "We Don't Want Any Trouble" (James H. Schmitz)
  • "Built Down Logically" (Howard Schoenfeld)
  • "An Egg a Month from All Over" (Idris Seabright)
  • "The Perfect Woman" (Robert Sheckley)
  • "The Hunters" (Walt Sheldon)
  • "The Martian and the Magician" (Evelyn E. Smith)
  • "Barney" (Will Stanton)
  • "Talent" (Theodore Sturgeon)
  • "Project Hush" (William Tenn)
  • "The Great Judge" (A. E. van Vogt)
  • "Emergency Landing" (Ralph Williams)
  • "Obviously Suicide" (S. Fowler Wright)
  • "Six Haiku" (poem) (Karen Anderson)

    • References

    Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA