Science fiction of the fifties / edited by Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph Olander.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenberg, Martin Harry, editor.

Olander, Joseph D., editor.

Viskupic, Gary, illustrator.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, American.

Short stories.

Genre:

Science fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxii, 393 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Book club edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Avon, 1980.

Summary:

Each story preceded by 2-4 paragraphs of commentary.

Contents:

Spectator sport / John D. MacDonald

Feedback / Katherine MacLean

Bettyann / Kris Neville

Dark interlude / Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds

What have I done? / Mark Clifton

DP! / Jack Vance

The liberation of earth / William Tenn

A bad day for sales / Fritz Leiber

Saucer of loneliness / Theodore Sturgeon

Heirs apparent / Robert Abernathy

5,271,009 / Alfred Bester

Short in the chest / Margaret St. Clair

The academy / Robert Sheckley

Nobody bothers Gus / Algis Budrys

Happy birthday, dear Jesus / Frederik Pohl

A work of art / James Blish

The country of the kind / Damon Knight

The education of Tigress McCardle / C.M. Kornbluth

The cage / A. Bertram Chandler

The last of the deliverers / Poul Anderson

Adrift on the policy level / Chan Davis

Afterword. Love O careless love / Barry N. Malzberg.

Notes:

Cover art: Gary Viskupic.

First printing has gutter code "K03" on page 392, indicates a printing in January 1980.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-393).

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.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 221581

OCLC:

6853982

Publisher Number:

3671 Science Fiction Book Club