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6th annual edition : the year's best S-F / edited by Judith Merril.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Merril, Judith, 1923-1997.
Zwienen, John Van, illustrator.
Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Dell ; 9772.
Dell ; 9772
Standardized Title:
S-F: the year's greatest science-fiction and fantasy.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Science fiction.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
Physical Description:
384 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Other Title:
The year's best S-F : 6th annual edition
Year's best science fiction
Place of Publication:
New York : Dell, 1962.
Contents:
Introduction / Judith Merril
Double, double, toil and trouble / Holley Cantine
The never ending penny / Bernard Wolfe
The fellow who married the Maxill girl / Ward Moore
Something invented me / R.C. Phelan
A sigh for cybernetics / Felicia Lamport
Obvious! / Michael Ffolkes
I remember Babylon / Arthur C. Clarke
The lagging profession / Leonard Lockhard
The distortion / Shel Silverstein
Report on the nature of the lunar surface / John Brunner
J.G. / Roger Price
Chief / Henry Slesar
Psalm / Lester del Rey
The large ant / Howard Fast
A rose by other name / Christopher Anvil
Enchantment / Elizabeth Emmett
Thiotimoline and the space age / Isaac Asimov
Beach scene / Marshall King
Creature of the snows / William Sambrot
Abominable / Frederic Brown
The man on top / R. Bretnor
David's daddy / Rosel George Brown
The thinkers / Walt Kelly
Something bright / Zenna Henderson
In the house, another / Joseph Whitehill
A serious search for weird worlds / Ray Bradbury
Ed Lear wasn't so crazy! / Hilbert Schenck, Jr.
Instructor / Thelwell
The Brotherhood of Keepers / Dean McLaughlin
Hemingway in space / Kingsley Amis
Mine own ways / Richard McKenna
Old hundredth / Brian W. Aldiss
Blues and Ballad: Radiation blues / Theodore R. Cogswell
Blowup blues / Theodore R. Cogswell
Ballad of the Shoshonu / Gordon R. Dickson
How to think a science fiction story / G. Harry Stine Summation: The year in S-F
S-F books -1960 / Anthony Boucher
Honorable mentions.
Notes:
Cover art by John Van Zwienen -- Internet speculative fiction database.
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Notes:
Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
OCLC:
21074628

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