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1946 anthology edited by Groff Conklin
The Best of Science Fiction
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Editor |
Groff Conklin |
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Cover artist | Robert Josephy |
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Language | English |
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Genre |
Science fiction |
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Publisher |
Crown Publishers |
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Publication date | 1946 |
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Publication place | United States |
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Media type | Print (hardcover) |
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Pages | 785 |
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The Best of Science Fiction, published in
1946, is an anthology 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
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