• Publication: Best SFPublication Record # 4149
• Editor: Edmund Crispin
• Date: 1955-02-00
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Price:
  15/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 368
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • Published February 1955 per Cole Checklist of SF Anthologies.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 254067079
  • Reginald-1: 03606

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • Introduction (Best SF) • (1955) • essay by Edmund Crispin
• 17 • Dormant • (1948) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 35 • Pictures Don't Lie • (1951) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 56 • Dumb Martian • (1952) • novelette by John Wyndham
• 85 • Or Else • (1953) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• 95 • No Woman Born • (1944) • novella by C. L. Moore
• 148 • The Fire Balloons • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 168 • The New Wine • (1954) • short story by John Christopher
• 183 • Prott • (1953) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 199 • A Present from Joe • (1949) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 214 • The Cerebrative Psittacoid • [C. P. Ransom • 10] • (1953) • short story by H. Nearing, Jr.
• 233 • First Lady • (1953) • novelette by J. T. McIntosh
• 262 • The Ruum • [Ruum] • (1953) • short story by Arthur Porges
• 276 • The Xi Effect • (1950) • short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
• 299 • A Case of Conscience • [After Such Knowledge] • (1953) • novella by James Blish
• 367 • Acknowledgements (Best SF) • (1955) • essay by Edmund Crispin