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Science Fiction Carnival

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Cover artist
  
Adri Ames

Publication date
  
1953

Pages
  
315 pp

Publisher
  
Shasta Publishers

OCLC
  
1613005

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1953

Country
  
United States of America

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Authors
  
Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds

Genres
  
Short story, Science Fiction

Similar
  
Mack Reynolds books, Works by Fredric Brown, Science Fiction books

Science Fiction Carnival is an anthology of humorous science fiction stories edited by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds. It was published by Shasta Publishers in 1953 in an edition of 3,500 copies. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Super Science Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Astounding, Worlds Beyond, Slant, Imagination, Space Science Fiction, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Blue Book.

Contents

Contents

  • Introduction, by Fredric Brown
  • Preface, by Mack Reynolds
  • "The Wheel of Time", by Robert Arthur
  • "SRL Ad", by Richard Matheson
  • "A Logic Named Joe", by Murray Leinster
  • "Simworthy’s Circus", by Larry Shaw
  • "The Well-Oiled Machine", by H. B. Fyfe
  • "Venus and the Seven Sexes", by William Tenn
  • "The Swordsmen of Varnis", by Clive Jackson
  • "Paradox Lost", by Fredric Brown
  • "Muten", by Eric Frank Russell
  • "The Martians and the Coys", by Mack Reynolds
  • "The Ego Machine", by Henry Kuttner
  • "The Cosmic Jackpot", by George O. Smith
  • "The Abduction of Abner Greer", by Nelson S. Bond

    • Reception

    P. Schuyler Miller gave the anthology a lukewarm review, saying "The only trouble with [the book] is that someone else got to all the best stories first."

    References

    Science Fiction Carnival Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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