Publication: The Best Science-Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series

Publication: The Best Science-Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth SeriesPublication Record # 258496
Editor: T. E. Dikty
Date: 1958-10-00
Publisher: Advent: Publishers / SFBC
Price:
$1.20^?$: US dollar
Pages: 258
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: The Best Science-Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series by Julian May
Notes:
- This listing is for Doubleday's SFBC edition. According to Tuck, the "Book Club and Advent editions were the same; both were printed by Doubleday , with a few hundred being distributed by Advent." Chalker & Owings give the total distribution as 1000.
- Published October 1958 per Cole Checklist of Science Fiction Anthologies.
- "Copyright 1958 by T. E. Dikty" and LCCN on copyright page. No statement of edition or printing.
- "Advent: Publishers" and "Chicago: 1958" on title page.
- "Book Club Edition" and "Jacket design by Julian May" on front jacket flap.
- No price on book. Price per Tuck.
- LCCN 49-10461

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

1 • The Science-Fiction Year • (1958) • essay by T. E. Dikty
14 • 2066: Election Day • (1956) • short story by Michael Shaara
28 • The Mile-Long Spaceship • (1957) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
37 • The Last Victory • (1957) • short story by Tom Godwin
53 • Call Me Joe • (1957) • novelette by Poul Anderson
85 • Didn't He Ramble • (1957) • short story by Chad Oliver
97 • The Queen's Messenger • (1957) • short story by John J. McGuire
119 • The Other People • (1957) • novelette by Leigh Brackett (variant of The Queer Ones)
155 • Into Your Tent I'll Creep • (1957) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
164 • Nor Dust Corrupt • (1957) • short story by James McConnell
178 • Nightsound • (1957) • short story by Algis Budrys (variant of The Attic Voice) [as by Algis J. Budrys]
189 • The Tunesmith • (1957) • novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
226 • Hunting Machine • (1957) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
233 • The Science-Fiction Book Index • (1958) • essay by Earl Kemp

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