• Publication: The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 11, 1949Publication Record # 40976
• Editors: Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg
• Date: date unknown
• ISBN: 0-87997-918-6 [978-0-87997-918-8]
• Publisher: DAW Books
• Price:
  $3.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
• Pages: 317
• 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 11, 1949 (1984) • by Michelangelo Miani
• Notes:

  • A Second Printing according to number line with no date listed except for the first printing.
  • DAW Book Collectors No. 571
  • Title on the Cover reads "Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 (1948)". Title on the spine reads, "Asimov The Great SF Stories: 11".
  • Introduction not signed, but according to Isaac Asimov in an essay from Gold stated that all of the Introductions from this series were written by Greenberg.
  • "Introduction 1949" is called "Introduction" on the ToC.
  • [Is History Lesson a variant of Expedition to Earth?]

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • Introduction 1949 (The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 11, 1949) • (1984) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• 12 • The Red Queen's Race • (1949) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 36 • Flaw • (1949) • short story by John D. MacDonald
• 45 • Private Eye • (1949) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 73 • Manna • (1949) • novelette by Peter Phillips
• 98 • The Prisoner in the Skull • (1949) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 135 • Alien Earth • (1949) • novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• 160 • History Lesson • (1949) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 169 • Eternity Lost • (1949) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 196 • The Only Thing We Learn • (1949) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 207 • Private - Keep Out! • (1949) • short story by Philip MacDonald
• 223 • The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast • (1949) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 232 • Kaleidoscope • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 242 • Defense Mechanism • (1949) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 251 • Cold War • [Hogben • 5] • (1949) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• 276 • The Witches of Karres • [Karres] • (1949) • novelette by James H. Schmitz