Publication: The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 8, 1946

Publication: The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 8, 1946Publication Record # 355085
Editors: Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg
Date: 1982-11-00
ISBN: 0-87997-780-9 [978-0-87997-780-1]
Publisher: DAW Books / New American Library of Canada
Price:
C$3.95^?C$: Canadian dollar
Pages: 368
Format:
pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 8, 1946 by Oliviero Berni (variant of Der lautlose Krieg)
Notes:
- "First Printing, November 1982/23456789"
- First Canadian printing, not stated
- As usual with first Canadian DAWs from late '80 until early 90s the number line starts with '2'
- Cover art credited to Berni on copyright page
- DAW Books No. 507; DAW catalog #UE1780.
- Title on the cover reads "Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 8 (1946)".
- Title on the spine reads "Asimov The Great SF Stories: 8".
- Introduction not signed, but according to Isaac Asimov in an essay from Gold all of the Introductions from this series were written by Greenberg.
- "The Million Year Picnic" is without a hyphen on both the ToC, and at the beginning of the story, however it appears with a hyphen (The Million-Year Picnic) at the top of every page of the story.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 8927149

Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page

Contents (view Concise Listing)

9 • Introduction (The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 8, 1946) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg
13 • A Logic Named Joe • (1946) • short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
30 • Memorial • (1946) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
45 • Loophole • (1946) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
53 • The Nightmare • (1946) • novelette by Chan Davis
74 • Rescue Party • (1946) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
101 • Placet Is a Crazy Place • (1946) • short story by Fredric Brown
116 • Conqueror's Isle • short story by Nelson S. Bond (variant of Conquerors' Isle 1946)
131 • Lorelei of the Red Mist • [Venus (Brackett)] • (1946) • novella by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury
189 • The Million Year Picnic • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury
199 • The Last Objective • (1946) • novelette by Paul A. Carter
228 • Meihem in ce Klasrum • (1946) • essay by Dolton Edwards
232 • Vintage Season • (1946) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lawrence O'Donnell]
276 • Evidence • [Susan Calvin] • (1946) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
299 • Absalom • (1946) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
315 • Mewhu's Jet • (1946) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
351 • Technical Error • (1946) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke

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