Supriya Ghosh (Editor)

Great Science Fiction

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Author
  
Edited by Tony Licata

Country
  
United States

Publisher
  
Three Star Books

Cover artist
  
M. Seltzer

Language
  
English

Genre
  
Science fiction anthology

Great Science-Fiction was a science fiction short story anthology edited by Tony Licata, published in 1965.

The title was originally conceived of as "The Bizarre." It was changed by the publisher to the more generic and 'safer' Great Science Fiction. There was concern about possible censorship at the time. Bizarre was an adjective often used in sex ads and the publisher also published The National Insider which ran personal ads. Clearly the word bizarre was not one that could be used in a personal ad.

The stories by some of the top writers that I had encountered at the time (early '60s) lived up to my original title.

Contents

  • The Wind by Ray Bradbury
  • Mouse by Fredric Brown
  • The Golem by Avram Davidson
  • Judgment Day by L. Sprague de Camp
  • History Lesson by Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Ruum by Arthur Porges
  • Dark Mission by Lester del Rey
  • A Better Rat Trap by Brad Steiger
  • References

    Great Science-Fiction Wikipedia