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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (hardcover)

Originally published
  
1952

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Publisher
  
Crown Publishing Group


Publication date
  
1952

Pages
  
xiii, 562 pp.

Author
  
Groff Conklin

Editor
  
Groff Conklin

Country
  
United States of America

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Omnibus 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 1952, and reprinted in 1953; a book club edition was issued by the same publisher with the Science Fiction Book Club in the same year. Later editions were issued by Bonanza Books/Crown Publishers in 1984 and Chatham River Press in 1984. An abridged paperback version including eleven of its forty-three stories was published by Berkley Books in August 1956 under the variant title Science Fiction Omnibus and reprinted in November 1963. A two volume British edition, also abridged, was published in hardcover by Grayson & Grayson in 1953-1954 under the variant titles Strange Travels in Science Fiction and Strange Adventures in Science Fiction; together, they included twenty-two of the original forty-three stories.

The book collects forty-three novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, together with an introduction by the editor. The stories were previously published from 1912-1952 in various science fiction and other magazines.

Contents

Note: stories also appearing in one of the abridged editions annotated OM (Science Fiction Omnibus), AD (Strange Adventures in Science Fiction) or TR (Strange Travels in Science Fiction).

  • "Introduction" (Groff Conklin)
  • "John Thomas's Cube" (John Leimert) TR
  • "Hyperpilosity" (L. Sprague de Camp)
  • "The Thing in the Woods" (Fletcher Pratt and B. F. Ruby)
  • "And Be Merry ..." (Katherine MacLean)
  • "The Bees from Borneo" (Will H. Gray)
  • "The Rag Thing" (David Grinnell)
  • "The Conqueror" (Mark Clifton)
  • "Never Underestimate ..." (Theodore Sturgeon) AD
  • "The Doorbell" (David H. Keller) AD
  • "A Subway Named Mobius" (A. J. Deutsch) OM TR
  • "Backfire" (Ross Rocklynne)
  • "The Box" (James Blish) AD
  • "Zeritsky's Law" (Ann Griffith)
  • "The Fourth Dynasty" (R. R. Winterbotham)
  • "The Color Out of Space" (H. P. Lovecraft) OM TR
  • "The Head Hunters" (Ralph Williams)
  • "The Star Dummy" (Anthony Boucher) OM TR
  • "Catch That Martian" (Damon Knight) AD
  • "Shipshape Home" (Richard Matheson) TR
  • "Homo Sol" (Isaac Asimov) OM
  • "Alexander the Bait" (William Tenn)
  • "Kaleidoscope" (Ray Bradbury) OM TR
  • ""Nothing Happens on the Moon"" (Paul Ernst) TR
  • "Trigger Tide" (Norman Menasco)
  • "Plague" (Murray Leinster) OM TR
  • "Winner Lose All" (Jack Vance)
  • "Test Piece" (Eric Frank Russell) OM
  • "Environment" (Chester S. Geier) AD
  • "High Threshold" (Alan E. Nourse) TR
  • "Spectator Sport" (John D. MacDonald) OM AD
  • "Recruiting Station" (A. E. van Vogt) AD
  • "A Stone and a Spear" (Raymond F. Jones) TR
  • "What You Need" (Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore))
  • "The Choice" (Wayland Hilton-Young) AD
  • "The War Against the Moon" (André Maurois)
  • "Pleasant Dreams" (Ralph Robin) TR
  • "Manners of the Age" (H. B. Fyfe) TR
  • "The Weapon" (Fredric Brown) OM TR
  • "The Scarlet Plague" (Jack London) TR
  • "Heritage" (Robert Abernathy)
  • "History Lesson" (Arthur C. Clarke) OM
  • "Instinct" (Lester del Rey) OM
  • "Counter Charm" (Peter Phillips)
  • References

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