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The Best of Science Fiction

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Cover artist
  
Robert Josephy

Language
  
English

Country
  
United States

Publisher
  
Crown Publishers

Author
  
Edited by Groff Conklin

Genre
  
Science fiction anthology

The Best of Science Fiction, published in 1946, is an anthlogy of science fiction anthologies edited by American critic and editor Groff Conklin.

Contents

  • "Concerning Science Fiction," an essay by John W. Campbell
  • Introduction by Groff Conklin
  • "Solution Unsatisfactory" (1941) by Robert A. Heinlein, credited as Anson MacDonald
  • "The Great War Syndicate" (abridged) (1888) by Frank R. Stockton
  • "The Piper's Son" (1945) by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, credited as Lewis Padgett
  • "Deadline" (1944) by Cleve Cartmill
  • "Lobby" (1944) by Clifford D. Simak
  • "Blowups Happen" (1940) by Robert A. Heinlein, credited as Anson MacDonald
  • "Atomic Power" (1934) by John W. Campbell, credited as Don A. Stuart
  • "Killdozer!" (1944) by Theodore Sturgeon
  • "Davey Jones' Ambassador" (1935) by Raymond Z. Gallun
  • "Giant in the Earth" (1933) by Morrison Colladay
  • "Goldfish Bowl" (1942) by Robert A. Heinlein, credited as Anson MacDonald
  • "The Ivy War" (1930) by David H. Keller
  • "Liquid Life" (1936) by Ralph Milne Farley
  • "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe
  • "The Great Keinplatz Experiment" (1885) by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes" (1895) by H. G. Wells
  • "The Tissue-Culture King" (1926) by Julian Huxley
  • "The Ultimate Catalyst" (1939) by Eric Temple Bell, credited as John Taine
  • "The Terrible Sense" (1938) by Thomas Calvert McClary, credited as Calvin Peregoy
  • "A Scientist Divides" (1934) by Donald Wandrei
  • "Tricky Tonnage" (1944) by Malcolm Jameson
  • "The Lanson Screen" (1936) by Arthur Leo Zagat
  • "The Ultimate Metal" (1935) by Nat Schachner
  • "The Machine" (1935) by John W. Campbell, credited as Don A. Stuart
  • "Short-Circuited Probability" (1941) by Norman L. Knight
  • "The Search" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Upper Level Road" (1935) by F. Orlin Tremaine, credited as Warner Van Lorne
  • "The 32nd of May" (1935) by Paul Ernst
  • "The Monster from Nowhere" (1939) by Nelson S. Bond
  • "First Contact" (1945) by Murray Leinster
  • "Universe" (1941) by Robert A. Heinlein
  • "Blind Alley" (1945) by Isaac Asimov
  • "En Route to Pluto" (1936) by Wallace West
  • "The Retreat to Mars" (1927) by Cecil B. White
  • "The Man Who Saved the Earth" (1919) by Austin Hall
  • "Spawn of the Stars" (1930) by Charles Willard Diffin
  • "The Flame Midget" (1936) by Frank Belknap Long
  • "Expedition" (1943) by Anthony Boucher
  • "The Conquest of Gola" (1931) by Leslie F. Stone
  • "Jackdaw" (1942) by Ross Rocklynne

    • References

    The Best of Science Fiction Wikipedia
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