Country United States Publication date 1958 Pages 258 pp Cover artist Julian May | Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1958 Publisher Advent:Publishers | |
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Genres Short story, Science Fiction Similar The Best Science Fiction St, The Best Science Fiction St, Year's Best Science Fiction N, The Best Science Fiction St, The Best Science Fiction St | ||
The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series is a 1958 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by T. E. Dikty. The stories had originally appeared in 1956 and 1957 in the magazines Astounding, If, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Venture Science Fiction Magazine, Satellite and Science Fiction Stories.
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Reception
Anthony Boucher unhappily dismissed this anthology as an "assembly of the tedious, trite and ill-reasoned," excepting only Anderson's story as "firstrate" and the short pieces from Emshwiller, Oliver and Russell as "good (if far from 'best')". Damon Knight singled out the Anderson and Emshwiller stories as "first-rate," dismissing the remainder as "mostly dead-level puzzles of melodramas, each one grayly blending into a hundred similar stories you have read and mildly enjoyed."