Isaac Asimov presents the great science fiction stories. Volume 2, 1940 / edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenberg, Martin Harry, editor.

Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992, editor.

Gaughan, Jack, illustrator.

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

Series:

DAW=sf books ; no. 350.

DAW=sf books ; no. 350

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, American.

Genre:

Science fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

350 pages ; 18 cm.

Other Title:

Great science fiction stories, volume 2, 1940

Isaac Asimov presents the great SF stories 2 (1940)

Place of Publication:

New York : DAW Books, 1979.

Contents:

The dwindling sphere / W. Hawkins

The automatic pistol / F. Leiber

Hindsight / J. Williamson

Postpaid to paradise / R. Arthur

Into the darkness / R. Rocklynne

Dark mission / L. Del Rey

It / T. Sturgeon

Vault of the beast / A.E. Van Vogt

The impossible highway / O.J. Friend

Quietus / R. Rocklynne

Strange playfellow / I. Asimov

The warrior race / L.S. De Camp

Farewell to the master / H. Bates

Butyl and the Breather / T. Sturgeon

The exalted / L.S. De Camp

Old man Mulligan / P.S. Miller.

Notes:

Sixteen stories originally published in 1940; eleven in Astounding science fiction.

Three Robert A. Heinlein stories ("Requiem", "Blowups Happen", and "Coventry") were meant to be included, but arrangements for their use could not be made. The introductions for them are still in the book.

Cover design by Jack Gaughan.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 40986

ISBN:

0879974834

9780879974831

OCLC:

5200113

Publisher Number:

UE1483 DAW Books