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