• Publication: Science Fiction OdditiesPublication Record # 308496
• Editor: Groff Conklin
• Date: 1969-06-00
• ISBN: 0-85391-082-0 [978-0-85391-082-4]
• Publisher: Rapp & Whiting
• Price:
  21/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: x+156
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: • 1st UK edition • Month from Amazon.uk • Abridged from the US edition, contains 1/2 the stories
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 3764475

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Introduction (Science Fiction Oddities) • (1966) • essay by Groff Conklin
• 11 • People Soup • (1958) • short story by Alan Arkin
• 19 • What Is This Thing Called Love? • (1961) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 34 • Callahan and the Wheelies • (1960) • novelette by Stephen Barr
• 68 • Mrs. Poppledore's Id • (1952) • novelette by Reginald Bretnor [as by R. Bretnor]
• 94 • The Teeth of Despair • (1961) • short story by Avram Davidson and Sidney Klein
• 112 • The Galactic Calabash • [Mad Friend • 3] • (1960) • short story by G. C. Edmondson
• 122 • Space-Crime Continuum • (1954) • short story by H. F. Ellis
• 128 • The Chessplayers • (1953) • short story by Charles L. Harness
• 143 • What's the Name of That Town? • [Institute for Impure Science] • (1964) • short story by R. A. Lafferty