• Publication: The Classic Book of Science FictionPublication Record # 37202
• Editor: Groff Conklin
• Date: 1978-00-00
• Publisher: Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers
• Pages: 545
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Sanity • (1944) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• The Only Thing We Learn • (1949) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• Mewhu's Jet • (1946) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Isolationist • (1950) • short story by Mack Reynolds
• Dear Devil • (1950) • novelette by Eric Frank Russell
• Arena • (1944) • novelette by Fredric Brown
• Emergency Landing • (1940) • short story by Ralph Williams
• E for Effort • (1947) • novelette by T. L. Sherred
• The Wings of Night • (1942) • short story by Lester del Rey
• Desertion • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• Not with a Bang • (1950) • short story by Damon Knight
• Defense Mechanism • (1949) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• The Man with the Strange Head • (1927) • short story by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
• One Leg Too Many • [Dr. Wentworth] • (1929) • short story by W. Alexander
• The Roger Bacon Formula • (1929) • short story by Fletcher Pratt
• Manna • (1949) • novelette by Peter Phillips
• Rat Race • (1948) • short story by Dorothy de Courcy and John de Courcy
• The Outer Limit • (1949) • short story by Graham Doar
• Culture • (1944) • short story by Jerry Shelton
• The Planetoid of Doom • (1932) • short story by Morrison Colladay
• Nobody Saw the Ship • (1950) • short story by Murray Leinster
• The Long Dawn • (1950) • novelette by Noel Loomis
• Forever and the Earth • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• Mr. Murphy of New York • (1930) • short story by Thomas McMorrow
• The Diminishing Draft • (1918) • short story by Waldemar Kaempffert
• Contact, Incorporated • (1949) • novelette by Robertson Osborne (variant of Action on Azura)
• Peacebringer • (1950) • novelette by Ward Moore
• Introduction (Big Book of Science Fiction) • (1950) • essay by Groff Conklin
• A Matter of Form • (1938) • novella by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold]
• The Ship That Turned Aside • (1930) • novelette by G. Peyton Wertenbaker [as by Green Peyton]
• Margin for Error • (1947) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• The Miniature • (1949) • short story by John D. MacDonald [as by Peter Reed]
• In the Year 2889 • (1889) • short story by Jules Verne and Michel Verne (trans. of La journée d'un journaliste américain en 2890 1890) [as by Jules Verne]