Publication: Great Science Fiction Stories of 1940

Publication: Great Science Fiction Stories of 1940Publication Record # 269388
Editors: Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg
Date: 2002-00-00
ISBN: 0-7607-3251-5 [978-0-7607-3251-9]
Publisher: Dorset Press
Price:
$9.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
Pages: 350
Format:
tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: Great Science Fiction Stories of 1940 by Tom McKeveny
Notes: First printing by number line. Three selections were meant to be included, but permission could not be procured to use them. The introductions for them are still in the book. All three are Heinlein stories and can be found in his Collection "The Past /Through Tomorrow" (1967). They are; "Requiem", "Blowups Happen", and "Coventry". "Introduction" is credited to "The Editors" on the ToC, but in an Essay printed in "Gold", Asimov stated that Martin H. Greenberg penned all of the book introductions for this series of books.

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

9 • Introduction (The Great SF Stories 2 (1940)) • (1979) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg
13 • The Dwindling Sphere • (1940) • short story by Willard E. Hawkins [as by Willard Hawkins]
30 • The Automatic Pistol • (1940) • short story by Fritz Leiber
46 • Hindsight • (1940) • short story by Jack Williamson
65 • Postpaid to Paradise • [Murchison Morks] • (1940) • short story by Robert Arthur
80 • Into the Darkness • [Darkness (Rocklynne)] • (1940) • novelette by Ross Rocklynne
108 • Dark Mission • (1940) • short story by Lester del Rey
125 • It • (1940) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
149 • Vault of the Beast • (1940) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
176 • The Impossible Highway • (1940) • short story by Oscar J. Friend
191 • Quietus • (1940) • short story by Ross Rocklynne
206 • Strange Playfellow • [The Positronic Robot Stories] • (1940) • short story by Isaac Asimov
219 • The Warrior Race • (1940) • short story by L. Sprague de Camp
237 • Farewell to the Master • (1940) • novelette by Harry Bates
276 • Butyl and the Breather • [Ether Breather] • (1940) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
297 • The Exalted • [Johnny Black] • (1940) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
321 • Old Man Mulligan • (1940) • novelette by P. Schuyler Miller

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