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The Best from Fantasy and science fiction. Eighth series / edited by Anthony Boucher.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Best from F & SF 8
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- Format:
- Book
- 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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