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3.7/5 AbeBooks Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1965 Publisher World Publishing Company OCLC 1187565 | 3.7/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date 1965 Pages 518 pp Genre Science Fiction Editor Sam Moskowitz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Author Followed by Masterpieces of Science Fiction Similar Microcosmic God, The Vortex Blaster, Into the Sun & Other Sto, History of the Movemen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction is an anthology of science fiction short stories, edited by Sam Moskowitz. It was first published in hardcover by World Publishing Co. in 1965, and reprinted by Hyperion Press in 1974. It was split into three separate paperback anthologies published by MacFadden-Bartell; Doorway Into Time (1966), The Vortex Blasters (1968) and Microcosmic God (1968); the paperback editions omitted Moskowitz's introduction and the story by Robert Bloch.
The book collects twenty-one tales by various authors, together with a historical and critical introduction by the editor. NESFA Press characterizes it as "an excellent historical introduction to the field, including some of the best stories of the 1940s and 1950s."
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Key: D = reprinted in Doorway Into Time (1966); V = reprinted in The Vortex Blasters (1968); M = reprinted in Microcosmic God (1968).