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Yesterday's tomorrows : favorite stories from forty years as a science fiction editor / Frederik Pohl.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Yesterdays tomorrows
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 431 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berkley, [1982]
- Contents:
- The fanzines: 1933-1939
- The pulps: 1939-1943: Into the darkness / Ross Rocklynne
- Emergency refueling / James Blish
- The halfling / Leigh Brackett
- Let there be light / Robert A. Heinlein (writing as Lyle Monroe)
- Strange playfellow / Isaac Asimov
- Interstellar way-station / Bob Tucker
- The anthologies
- The report on the barnhouse effect / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Eco-catastrophe! / Paul R. Ehrlich
- The nine billion names of God / Arthur C. Clarke
- The with English / H.L. Gold
- Space-time for springers / Fritz Leiber
- The monster / Lester del Rey
- The rull / A.E. van Vogt
- The embassy / Donald A. Wollheim (writing as Martin Pearson)
- Guinevere for everybody / Jack Williamson
- The Galaxy and IF years:1960-1969
- The pain peddlers / Robert Silverberg
- Oh, to be a Blobel! / Philip K. Dick
- The Ballad of Lost C'mell / Cordwainer Smith
- A gentle dying / Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
- Slow Tuesday night / R.A. Lafferty
- Street of dreams, feet of clay / Robert Sheckley
- The coldest place / Larry Niven
- The great slow kings / Roger Zelazny
- The life hater / Fred Saberhagen
- Old Testament / Jerome Bixby
- The moon moth / Jack Vance
- The last flight of Dr. Ain / James Triptree, Jr.
- Among the bad baboons . Mack Reynolds
- Sweet dreams, Melissa / Stephen Goldin
- A bad day for vermin / Keith Laumer
- The paperbacks: 1971-1978
- At the mouse circus / Harlan Ellison
- Excerpt from Dragon lensman / David A. Kyle (based on the series created by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Ph. D.)
- Excerpt from Dhalgren / Samuel R. Delany
- Excerpt from The short-timers / Gustav Hasford
- Afterword.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 55749
- Other Format:
- Online version: Yesterday's tomorrows.
- ISBN:
- 0425056481
- 9780425056486
- OCLC:
- 9622196
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