Publication: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide

Publication: Science Fiction and Reader's GuidePublication Record # 29093
Editor: Marjorie Barrows
Date: 1954-06-00
Publisher: Spencer Press
Pages: 376
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Notes:
- Available only as one of the 16 volumes of The Children's Hour (List price: $120.00). This is Volume 16 in the series.
- "Copyright 1954 by Spencer Press" on copyright page. No statement of edition or printing. List of Children's Hour titles inside FFEP ends with this Volume.
- Published June 1954 per Cole Checklist of SF Anthologies.
- The first 143 pages (38% of book) have an illustrated anthology of juvenile SF stories. Includes numerous 2-color illustrations, plus an un-numbered bound-in color plate by Hardie Gramataky after page 8.
- "Pages for Parents" start on page 144 (62% of book.) First 44 pages of this section are 9 non-genre essays on children's literature and education. Remaining 191 pages (51% of book) are short biographies of editors, authors, and illustrators, plus an index.
- The story "Mars and Miss Pickerell" is constructed from two excerpts of Ellen MacGregor's 1951 book "Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars" (pages 50-62 and 101-128 with some of the illustrations) with additional brief intro and bridge.
- The story "Lancelot Biggs on the Saturn" is the first 4 chapters of The Remarkable Exploits of Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman, these chapters being a revised fix-up of 2 stories, "F.O.B. Venus" and "Lancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate".
- There is a footnote "See glossary, page 141" on page 70, the first page of "Lancelot Biggs on the Saturn". This uncredited glossary explains Nelson Bond's SFnal neologisms.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 14984687
- Reginald-1: 00914

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Anthology Title: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide • anthology by Marjorie Barrows

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1 • What Time Is It? • juvenile • (1952) • novelette by Richard M. Elam [as by Richard M. Elam, Jr.]
8 • What Time Is It? • (1954) • interior artwork by Hardie Gramatky
21 • Adventures on Mars • juvenile • (1952) • short story by Richard M. Elam [as by Richard M. Elam, Jr.]
21 • Adventures on Mars • (1954) • interior artwork by Seymour Fleishman
36 • Mars and Miss Pickerell (excerpt) • juvenile • [Miss Pickerell] • (1951) • short fiction by Ellen MacGregor
36 • Mars and Miss Pickerell • [Miss Pickerell] • (1954) • interior artwork by Paul Galdone
59 • The Star Ducks • (1950) • short story by Bill Brown
59 • The Star Ducks • (1954) • interior artwork by Hardie Gramatky
70 • Lancelot Biggs on the Saturn • [Lancelot Biggs] • (1950) • novelette by Nelson S. Bond [as by Nelson Bond]
70 • Lancelot Biggs on the Saturn • [Lancelot Biggs] • (1954) • interior artwork by John Dukes McKee
102 • The Truth About Pyecraft • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
102 • The Truth About Pyecraft • (1954) • interior artwork by John Dukes McKee
115 • The Black Pits of Luna • juvenile • [Future History] • (1948) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
115 • The Black Pits of Luna • [Future History] • (1954) • interior artwork by Brinton Turkle
132 • Is There Life on the Moon? • (1953) • essay by H. Percy Wilkins [as by Percy H. Wilkins]
132 • Is There Life on the Moon? • (1954) • interior artwork by Ann Davidow
134 • Trail to the Stars • (1950) • essay by Capt. Burr W. Leyson
134 • Trail to the Stars • (1954) • interior artwork by John Merryweather
141 • Glossary (Science Fiction and Reader's Guide) • essay by uncredited

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Publication: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide

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