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The Best from Fantasy and science fiction. Eighth series / edited by Anthony Boucher.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Boucher, Anthony, 1911-1968, editor.
Renshaw, Arthur, illustrator.
Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Science fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Genre:
Fantasy fiction.
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Penn Provenance:
Adams, Mark B. (autograph, June 1973) (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
Physical Description:
239 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:
Book Club edition.
Place of Publication:
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, [1959]
Summary:
An anthology of short stories and readers' contributions to contests published in "Fantasy & Science Fiction."
Contents:
Ministering angels / C.S. Lewis
Backwardness / Poul Anderson
The wait / Kit Reed
The up-to-date sorcerer / Isaac Asimov
A deskful of girls / Fritz Leiber
Eripmav / Damon Knight
Poor little warrior! / Brian W. Aldiss
The omen / Shirley Jackson
Gil Braltar / Jules Verne
The Grantha sighting / Avram Davidson
Theory of rocketry / C.M. Kornbluth
A new lo! / Ron Goulart
Gorilla suit / John Shepley
Captivity / Zenna Henderson
The men who murdered Mohammed / Alfred Bester
Through time and space with Ferdinand Feghoot / Grendel Briarton
Origin of the species / Karen Anderson
Epithalamium / Doris Pitkin Buck
The watchers / Anthony Brode
The better bet / Anthony Brode
Ye phantasie writer and his catte / Winona McClintic
In memoriam: Henry Kuttner / Karen Anderson
Valise Macabre / Winona McClintic.
Notes:
Dust jacket design by Arthur Renshaw.
There are vignettes between many of the stories.
The gutter code is "4" indicating a January 1959 printing date. A gutter code of "45" appears in a reprint.
Local Notes:
Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
Adams Collection copy has dustjacket. Has gutter code "A15"
Cited in:
Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 261669
OCLC:
28580302

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