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Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1954

Pages
  
331 pp

Genre
  
Novel

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1954

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Authors
  
E. F. Bleiler, T. E. Dikty

Publisher
  
Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc.

Preceded by
  
Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953

Similar
  
E F Bleiler books, Science Fiction books

Year’s Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954 is a 1954 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 Grayson in 1955 under the title The Year’s Best Science Fiction Novels: Second Series. The stories had originally appeared in 1953 and 1954 in the magazines Amazing Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Science Stories, Galaxy Science Fiction and Space Science Fiction.

Contents

Contents

  • Introduction, by Everett F. Bleiler & T. E. Dikty
  • "The Enormous Room", by H. L. Gold & Robert Krepps
  • "Assignment in Aldebaran", by Kendell Foster Crossen
  • "The Oceans Are Wide", by Frank M. Robinson
  • "The Sentimentalists", by Murray Leinster
  • "Second Variety", by Philip K. Dick

    • Reception

    P. Schuyler Miller reported that the editors' choices here were "by no means up to the very high standards of their annual short-story anthologies," although he rated the Robinson and Dick stories highly.

    References

    Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954 Wikipedia
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