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• Title: Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales
• Editors: Isaac Asimov , Groff Conklin
• Year: unknown
• ISBN-10: 0-02-016390-8
• ISBN-13: 978-0-02-016390-9
• Publisher: Collier Books
• Price: $5.95
• Pages: 287
• Binding: pb
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Title Reference: Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales
• Cover: Don Ivan Punchatz
• ISFDB Record Number: 209141
• Notes: [WIP] A 31st printing of unknown date. [Need to add "The Haunted Space Suit by Arthur C. Clarke.]
• Bibliographic Comments: Add new Publication comment (FFTSHRTSCN0000)

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• An Egg a Month from All Over • (1952) • shortstory by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright ]
• Appointment at Noon • (1954) • shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
• Barney • (1951) • shortstory by Will Stanton
• Built Down Logically • (1951) • shortstory by Howard Schoenfeld
• Counter Charm • (1951) • shortstory by Peter Phillips
• Double-Take • (1953) • shortstory by Winston K. Marks
• Emergency Landing • (1940) • shortstory by Ralph Williams
• Narapoia • [Dr. Manly J. Departure] • (1948) • shortstory by Alan Nelson
• Obviously Suicide • (1951) • shortstory by S. Fowler Wright
• Project Hush • (1954) • shortstory by William Tenn
• Prolog • (1951) • shortstory by John P. McKnight
• See? • (1954) • shortstory by Edward G. Robles, Jr.
• Six Haiku • (1962) • poem by Karen Anderson
• Spectator Sport • (1950) • shortstory by John D. MacDonald
• Talent • (1953) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Available Data on the Worp Reaction • (1953) • shortstory by Lion Miller
• The Business, As Usual • (1952) • shortstory by Mack Reynolds
• The Cricket Ball • (1955) • shortstory by Avro Manhattan
• The Fly • (1952) • shortstory by Arthur Porges
• The Great Judge • (1948) • shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
• The Hunters • (1952) • shortstory by Walt Sheldon
• The Martian and the Magician • (1952) • shortstory by Evelyn E. Smith
• The Perfect Woman • (1953) • shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Tiger by the Tail • (1951) • shortstory by Alan E. Nourse
• Two Weeks in August • (1951) • shortstory by Frank M. Robinson
• We Don't Want Any Trouble • (1953) • shortstory by James H. Schmitz
• Who's Cribbing? • (1953) • shortstory by Jack Lewis
• 11 • Introduction No. 1 (Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales) • (1963) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 17 • Introduction No. 2 (Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales) • (1963) • essay by Groff Conklin
• 23 • Ballade of an Artificial Satellite • (1958) • poem by Poul Anderson
• 25 • The Fun They Had • (1951) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• 29 • Men Are Different • (1954) • shortstory by Alan Bloch
• 31 • The Ambassadors • (1952) • shortstory by Anthony Boucher
• 36 • The Weapon • (1951) • shortstory by Fredric Brown
• 40 • Random Sample • (1953) • shortstory by T. P. Caravan
• 44 • Oscar • (1941) • shortstory by Cleve Cartmill
• 49 • The Mist • (1952) • shortstory by Peter Grainger [as by Peter Cartur ]
• 53 • Teething Ring • (1953) • shortstory by James Causey
• 61 • The Haunted Space Suit • (1958) • shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Who's There?)
• 67 • Stair Trick • (1952) • shortstory by Mildred Clingerman
• 73 • Unwelcome Tenant • (1950) • shortstory by Roger Dee
• 79 • The Mathematicians • (1953) • shortstory by Arthur Feldman
• 83 • The Third Level • (1950) • shortstory by Jack Finney
• 88 • Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful! • (1952) • shortstory by Stuart Friedman
• 92 • The Figure • (1947) • shortstory by Edward Grendon
• 98 • The Rag Thing • (1951) • shortstory by Donald A. Wollheim [as by David Grinnell ]
• 103 • The Good Provider • (1952) • shortstory by Marion Gross
• 108 • Columbus Was a Dope • (1947) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
• 113 • Texas Week • (1954) • shortstory by Albert Hernhuter
• 118 • Hilda • (1952) • shortstory by H. B. Hickey
• 123 • The Choice • (1952) • shortstory by Wayland Hilton-Young [as by W. Hilton-Young ]
• 125 • Not With a Bang • (1950) • shortstory by Damon Knight
• 131 • The Altar at Midnight • (1952) • shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• 139 • A Bad Day for Sales • (1953) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber

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