Publication: First Step Outward

Publication: First Step OutwardPublication Record # 13838
Editor: Robert Hoskins
Date: 1969-08-00
Catalog ID: 2549
Publisher: Dell
Price:
$0.60^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
Pages: 224
Format:
pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: First Step Outward by John Berkey [as by Berkey]
Notes:
- "First printing—August 1969" stated on the copyright; no number line.
- "Cover: Berkey" on the back cover, the artwork is also signed
- Printed in the USA
- The stories in the anthology are divided into four sections:
  - "To Space" (pages 23 - 84, four stories)
  - "To the Planets" (pages 85 - 140, four stories)
  - "To the Stars" (pages 141 - 210, four stories)
  - "Epilog" (pages 211 - 224, one story)
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 5543771
- Reginald-1: 07423

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Anthology Title: First Step Outward • anthology by Robert Hoskins

Contents (view Concise Listing)

11 • Introduction (First Step Outward) • essay by Poul Anderson
21 • Prologue (First Step Outward) • essay by Robert Hoskins
25 • Cold War • (1949) • short story by Kris Neville
38 • Third Stage • (1962) • short story by Poul Anderson
59 • Gentlemen, Be Seated! • [Future History] • (1948) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
70 • Jaywalker • (1950) • short story by Ross Rocklynne
87 • The Hated • (1958) • short story by Frederik Pohl
99 • Sunrise on Mercury • (1957) • short story by Robert Silverberg
114 • Hop-Friend • (1962) • short story by Terry Carr
128 • The Man Who Lost the Sea • (1959) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
143 • First Contact • (1945) • novelette by Murray Leinster
178 • Misbegotten Missionary • (1950) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Green Patches)
195 • The Market in Aliens • (1968) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg [as by K. M. O'Donnell]
199 • The Rules of the Road • (1964) • short story by Norman Spinrad
213 • Jetsam • (1953) • short story by A. Bertram Chandler

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