50 Short Science Fiction Tales
by Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke and Anthony Boucher and William Tenn and Damon Knight and Jack Finney and John D. MacDonald and Isaac Asimov and Robert Sheckley and Poul Anderson and Theodore Sturgeon and Fritz Leiber and Fredric Brown and Donald A. Wollheim and James H. Schmitz and Mack Reynolds and Evelyn E. Smith and C.M. Kornbluth and Groff Conklin and Peter Phillips and A.E. van Vogt and Margaret St. Clair and Eric Frank Russell and Frank M. Robinson and Winston K. Marks and Walt Sheldon and Arthur Porges and Mildred Clingerman and Alan E. Nourse and Alan Nelson and James Causey and Will Stanton and Alan Bloch and T.P. Caravan and Cleve Cartmill and Peter Grainger and Roger Dee and Arthur Feldman and Stuart Friedman and Edward Grendon and Marion Gross and Albert Hernhuter and H.B. Hickey and Wayland Hilton-Young and Jack Lewis and Avro Manhattan and John P. McKnight and Lion Miller and Edward G. Robles Jr. and Howard Schoenfeld and Ralph Williams
Fifty Exciting Experiences You visit a world where Robots strain to remember the existence of the Men who created them; hear the tantalizingly brief report of a man who returns from a trip to the future; see the snake-armed Thing that emerges from the minds of the people who conjure it. You meet a souvenir hunter in the Thirtieth Century and a schoolgirl who tries to cope with the teaching methods of the Twenty-second Century. You share the terror of an astronaut in a “haunted” space suit and the dilemma of a wife whose husband knows a common chemical formula for destroying the earth. In short, you feel the impact, the originality, and the uncanny atmosphere created by these science fiction experts not once—but 50 times. Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales have been selected for their concise writing, and for punch lines that leave the reader “surprised, shocked, and delighted at the final sentence.” According to the editors, another important aspect of this literary form is “evocation of a background differing from our own.” Consequently, though some of the stories are just a page long, the reading experience is always excitingly unique.
Release Date:
January 31, 1963
