Publication: A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959

Publication: A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959Publication Record # 313
Editor: Robert Silverberg
Date: 1997-02-00
ISBN: 1-56731-154-7 [978-1-56731-154-9]
Publisher: MJF Books
Price:
$8.98^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
Pages: 341
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 by Vincent Di Fate (variant of Di Fate's Catalog of Science Fiction Hardware 1980)
Webpages: archive.org
Notes:
- Copyright ©1996. No edition or publication date stated. Not seen by Locus until Feb '97
- First printing by number line 10—1
- The stories all begin on the 2nd page, after a short introduction.
- Cover artist is credited on the back flap of the dustjacket [as Vincent DiFate]
- Price from Locus1
- LCCN on the copyright page as 96-78811 but this is unknown to the Library of Congress.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 270892759

Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page

Contents (view Concise Listing)

1 • Introduction (A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959) • [Silverberg's Essays: Others' Work] • essay by Robert Silverberg
9 • Coming Attraction • (1950) • short story by Fritz Leiber
23 • The Mindworm • (1950) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
37 • The Pedestrian • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
43 • Common Time • (1953) • short story by James Blish
65 • Crucifixus Etiam • (1953) • short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
86 • Mother • (1953) • novelette by
Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer
114 • The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
122 • Or Else • (1953) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
132 • Warm • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
142 • Down Among the Dead Men • (1954) • novelette by William Tenn
166 • The Father-Thing • (1954) • short story by Philip K. Dick
180 • Dreaming Is a Private Thing • (1955) • short story by Isaac Asimov
197 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
213 • The Gift of Gab • (1955) • novella by Jack Vance
264 • Call Me Joe • (1957) • novelette by Poul Anderson
299 • World of a Thousand Colors • (1957) • short story by Robert Silverberg
313 • The Man Who Lost the Sea • (1959) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
325 • The Wind People • (1959) • short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley

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