Samiksha Jaiswal (Editor)

Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
8
/
10
1
Votes
Alchetron
8
1 Ratings
100
90
81
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Rate This

Rate This

Language
  
English

Pages
  
331 pp

Genre
  
Novel

4/5
Goodreads

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1953

Country
  
United States of America

Authors
  
E. F. Bleiler, T. E. Dikty

Preceded by
  
Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1952

Followed by
  
Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954

Similar
  
E F Bleiler books, Science Fiction books

Year’s Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953 is a 1953 anthology of science fiction novels and novellas edited by E. F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty. An abridged edition was published in the UK by The Bodley Head in 1955 under the title Category Phoenix. The stories had originally appeared in 1952 in the magazines Astounding, Galaxy Science Fiction and Thrilling Wonder Stories.

Contents

Contents

  • Introduction, by Everett F. Bleiler & T. E. Dikty
  • "Firewater", by William Tenn
  • "Category Phoenix", by Boyd Ellanby
  • "Surface Tension", by James Blish
  • "The Gadget Had a Ghost", by Murray Leinster
  • "Conditionally Human", by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

    • Reception

    P. Schuyler Miller noted that the editors selected stories "for variety as much as 'importance,' literary elegance, or any other such self-conscious quality."

    References

    Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953 Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA