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The Playboy book of science fiction and fantasy / selected by the editors of Playboy.

LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Playboy SF and Fantasy
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Gregory, Jack (Illustrator)
Mednick, Seymour, photographer.
Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Playboy.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Science fiction.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Penn Provenance:
Adams, Mark B. (autograph, June 1968) (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
Physical Description:
ix, 402 pages ; 18 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : Playboy Press, 1968.
Contents:
The fly / George Langelaan
Blood brother / Charles Beaumont
Love, incorporated / Robert Sheckley
A foot in the door / Bruce Jay Friedman
The vacation / Ray Bradbury
The never ending penny / Bernard Wolfe
Bernie the Faust / William Tenn
A man for the moon / Leland Webb
The noise / Ken W. Purdy
The killer in the TV set / Bruce Jay Friedman
I remember Babylon / Arthur C. Clarke
Word of honor / Robert Bloch
John Grant's little angel / Walt Grove
The fiend / Frederik Pohl
Hard bargain / Alan E. Nourse
The nail and the oracle / Theodore Sturgeon
After / Henry Slesar.
December 28th / Theodore L. Thomas
Spy story / Robert Sheckley
Punch / Frederik Pohl
The crooked man / Charles Beaumont
Who shall dwell / H.C. Neal
Double take / Jack Finney
Examination day / Henry Slesar
The mission / Hugh Nissenson
Waste not, want not / John Atherton
The dot and dash bird / Bernard Wolfe
The sensible man / Avram Davidson
Souvenir / J.G. Ballard
Puppet show / Fredric Brown
The room / Ray Russell
Dial "F" for Frankenstein / Arthur C. Clarke.
Notes:
Paper wrappers.
" ... hardcover edition published 1966 ... softcover edition published 1968."
Cover illustration: Jack Gregory, sculpture; Seymour Mednick, photography.
Local Notes:
Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
OCLC:
5277944

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