Publication: The Best of Science Fiction

Publication: The Best of Science FictionPublication Record # 711513
Editor: Groff Conklin
Date: date unknown
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Price:
$3.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
Pages: xxvii+785
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: The Best of Science Fiction (1946) • by Robert Josephy
Webpages: archive.org
Notes:
- This listing is for the 2nd printing. See below for points differentiating 1st and 2nd printing.
- On copyright page: "Copyright, 1946, by Crown Publishers" and "Designed by Robert Josephy". No statement of edition or printing.
- $3.00 price on front flap of dust jacket. Tuck incorrectly lists $3.50 price of later printings.
- There are six parts to the book:
  - PART ONE THE ATOM ("Solution Unsatisfactory" to "Atomic Power")
  - PART TWO THE WONDERS OF EARTH ("Killdozer!" to "Liquid Life")
  - PART THREE THE SUPERSCIENCE OF MAN("A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" to "A Scientist Divides")
  - PART FOUR DANGEROUS INVENTIONS ("Tricky Tonnage" to "The Machine")
  - PART FIVE ADVENTURES IN DIMENSION ("Short-Circuited Probability" to "The Monster From Nowhere")
  - PART SIX FROM OUTER SPACE ("First Contact" to "Jackdaw")
- No BLIC.
- The 1st and 2nd printing are differentiated by the following points: - Author credit for The Monster From Nowhere:
  - 1st printing: as noted by Tuck, "error in first printing credited to D. Wandrei" in Table of Contents and on page 542. As noted by Bud Webster in Anthopology 101 (http://www.philsp.com/articles/anthopology_101_03.html), "this was because Wandrei had written a story with the same title". The Cole Checklist notes a "second edition" of the 1st printing "carried an errata slip".
  - 2nd printing: correctly credited to Nelson Bond in Table of Contents and on page 542, with an added footnote on page 542 that begins, "Note: By error, Mr. Bond's story was credited to Donald Wandrei in the first edition of this anthology ...".
- Copyright page:
  - 1st printing: No printer credit.
  - 2nd printing: Printer credit for "American Book – Stratford Press".
- Boards:
  - 1st printing: embossed in silver on front and spine. Verification copy is black cloth.
  - 2nd printing: embossed in gold on spine only. Verification copy is maroon cloth.
- Book size:
  - both: Book is 6 x 8.5".
  - 1st printing: very thin paper (as during wartime paper rationing) so book is only 1.25" thick.
  - 2nd printing: thicker paper, so book is 1.75" thick.
- Dust jacket:
  - both: Color-printed portion is identical, 7.25" wide. $3.00 price on front flap.
  - 1st printing: Jacket is 21.5" wide. Blurb on back flap is for Furlough From Heaven (1946). Top 2 (of 6) blurbs on back are for The Collected Stories of Ben Hecht (1945) and A Treasury of American Folklore (1944).
  - 2nd printing: Jacket is 22" wide, with slightly wider back and flaps to fit thicker book. Blurb on back flap is for The Murder of the U.S.A. (1946). Top 2 (of 6) blurbs on back are for A Treasury of American Folklore and 20 Best Stories in Ray Long's 20 Years As An Editor (1932).
External IDs:
- LCCN: 46000551
- OCLC/WorldCat: 296850

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Anthology Title: The Best of Science Fiction • (1946) • anthology by Groff Conklin

Contents (view Concise Listing)

v • Concerning Science Fiction • (1946) • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.
xv • Introduction (The Best of Science Fiction) • (1946) • essay by Groff Conklin
3 • Solution Unsatisfactory • (1941) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein [as by Anson MacDonald]
36 • The Great War Syndicate (abridged) • (1888) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
45 • The Piper's Son • [Baldy] • (1945) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
67 • Deadline • (1944) • novelette by Cleve Cartmill
89 • Lobby • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
103 • Blowups Happen • [Future History] • (1940) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
140 • Atomic Power • (1934) • short story by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart]
155 • Killdozer! • (1944) • novella by Theodore Sturgeon
210 • Davey Jones' Ambassador • (1935) • novelette by Raymond Z. Gallun
236 • Giant in the Earth • (1933) • short story by Morrison Colladay
252 • Goldfish Bowl • (1942) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein [as by Anson MacDonald]
278 • The Ivy War • (1930) • short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
297 • Liquid Life • (1936) • novelette by Ralph Milne Farley
319 • A Tale of the Ragged Mountains • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
327 • The Great Keinplatz Experiment • (1885) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
340 • The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
348 • The Tissue-Culture King • (1926) • novelette by Julian Huxley
366 • The Ultimate Catalyst • (1939) • novelette by John Taine
385 • The Terrible Sense • (1938) • short story by Thomas Calvert McClary [as by Calvin Peregoy]
398 • A Scientist Divides • (1934) • short story by Donald Wandrei
413 • Tricky Tonnage • (1944) • short story by Malcolm Jameson
424 • The Lanson Screen • (1936) • short story by Arthur Leo Zagat
441 • The Ultimate Metal • (1935) • short story by Nat Schachner
460 • The Machine • [The Machine • 1] • (1935) • short story by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart]
477 • Short-Circuited Probability • (1941) • short story by Norman L. Knight
491 • The Search • (1943) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
518 • The Upper Level Road • (1935) • short story by F. Orlin Tremaine [as by Warner Van Lorne]
532 • The 32nd of May • (1935) • short story by Paul Ernst
542 • The Monster from Nowhere • (1939) • short story by Nelson S. Bond
559 • First Contact • (1945) • novelette by Murray Leinster
584 • Universe • (1941) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
622 • Blind Alley • [Foundation Universe] • (1945) • short story by Isaac Asimov
641 • En Route to Pluto • [Bird of Time] • (1936) • short story by Wallace West
651 • The Retreat to Mars • [The Retreat to Mars • 1] • (1927) • short story by Cecil B. White
668 • The Man Who Saved the Earth • (1919) • novelette by Austin Hall
704 • Spawn of the Stars • (1930) • novelette by Charles Willard Diffin [as by Charles W. Diffin]
730 • The Flame Midget • (1936) • short story by Frank Belknap Long [as by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.]
740 • Expedition • (1943) • short story by Anthony Boucher
752 • The Conquest of Gola • (1931) • short story by Leslie F. Stone
764 • Jackdaw • (1942) • novelette by Ross Rocklynne

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Publication: The Best of Science Fiction

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