• Publication: Second Orbit: A New Science Fiction Anthology for SchoolsPublication Record # 29439
• Editor: G. D. Doherty
• Date: 1965-00-00
• Publisher: John Murray
• Pub. Series: The Albemarle Library for Schools
• Price:
  8/6^?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: 218
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Cover: Second Orbit: A New Science Fiction Anthology for Schools by Peter Sedgley
• External IDs:
  • BL: 000960422
  • COPAC (defunct): 4759912 Web view XML view
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 3620937
  • Reginald-1: 04440

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Star • (1955) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Prize of Peril • (1958) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• Outside • (1955) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• Common Time • (1953) • short story by James Blish
• And Now the News ... • (1956) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• Allamagoosa • (1955) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• With These Hands • (1951) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Veldt • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• Trainee for Mars • (1958) • short story by Harry Harrison
• Introduction (Second Orbit) • essay by G. D. Doherty