Publication: Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2

Publication: Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2Publication Record # 32085
Editor: Frederik Pohl
Date: 1953-12-00
Catalog ID: 55
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Price:
$0.35^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
Pages: [8]+195
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: Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953) • by Richard Powers
Webpages: archive.org
Notes:
- ©1953 No other statement of edition, publication or printing.
- Published December 1953 per Cole Checklist.
- Catalog of Copyright Number A00000123105 puts the publication date at 1953-12-31.
- Artist not credited; no visible signature. Credited to Richard Powers in The Art of Richard Powers.
- "Critical Factor" actually typoed as "Critical Fatocr" on title page.
- Printed in the US
External IDs:
- Bleiler Supernatural: 1319
- Goodreads: 53024555
- LCCN: 53-5671
- OCLC/WorldCat: 8249682

Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page

Contents (view Concise Listing)

[5] • Editor's Note (Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2) • (1953) • essay by Frederik Pohl
1 • Disappearing Act • (1953) • short story by Alfred Bester
22 • The Clinic • (1953) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
37 • The Congruent People • (1953) • short story by Algis Budrys [as by A. J. Budrys]
50 • Critical Factor • (1953) • short story by Hal Clement
66 • It's a Good Life • short story by Jerome Bixby
86 • A Pound of Cure • (1953) • short story by Lester del Rey
98 • The Purple Fields • (1953) • short story by Robert Crane
111 • F Y I • (1953) • short story by James Blish
121 • Conquest • (1953) • short story by Anthony Boucher
133 • Hormones • (1953) • short story by Fletcher Pratt
141 • The Odor of Thought • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
154 • The Happiest Creature • [Quarantine] • (1953) • short story by Jack Williamson
170 • The Remorseful • (1953) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
178 • Friend of the Family • (1953) • short story by Richard Wilson

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