Publication: The Best of Analog

Publication: The Best of AnalogPublication Record # 177845
Editor: Ben Bova
Date: 1979-03-00
ISBN: 0-441-05470-6 [978-0-441-05470-1]
Publisher: Ace Books
Pub. Series: An Analog Book
Price:
$2.25^?$: US dollar
Pages: 418
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 Best of Analog (1978) • by Alex Schomburg
Notes:
- First Ace printing March 1979. [This Publication Record].
- No printing number line in book.
- Copyright © 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978 by The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
- Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand copyright © 1973 by Vonda McIntyre.
- Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Signature not found.
- First printing October 1978.
- ToC gives the incorrect page start for The Present State of Igneous Research.
- Introduction: The Best and the Brightest ends with Ben Bova (over) Manhattan, December 1977.
- "Edited by Ben Bova" on title page, front cover and spine.
- "The Best of Analog" is included in the list of 'Analog Books' titles printed opposite the title page. Unlike most other 'An Analog Book's, this publication makes no explicit mention that it is part of this series on the cover.

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Anthology Title: The Best of Analog • [Analog Anthologies (Bova)] • (1978) • anthology by Ben Bova

Contents (view Concise Listing)

9 • Introduction: The Best and the Brightest • (1978) • essay by Ben Bova
11 • Persephone and Hades • (1973) • short story by Scott W. Schumack
33 • Common Denominator • (1972) • novelette by David Lewis
93 • The Four-Hour Fugue • (1974) • short story by Alfred Bester
114 • How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion • (1973) • short story by Gene Wolfe
134 • A Song for Lya • [Thousand Worlds] • (1974) • novella by George R. R. Martin
205 • Unlimited Warfare • (1974) • short story by Hayford Peirce
218 • Tricentennial • (1976) • short story by Joe Haldeman
240 • The Present State of Igneos Research • (1975) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
247 • Child of All Ages • [Melissa] • (1975) • short story by P. J. Plauger
269 • The Hole Man • (1974) • short story by Larry Niven
285 • Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand • [Snake] • (1973) • novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
310 • A Thing of Beauty • (1973) • short story by Norman Spinrad
328 • When I Was in Your Mind • (1972) • short story by Joe Allred
346 • Unified Field Theory • (1975) • poem by Tim Joseph
348 • Home Is the Hangman • [Nemo] • (1975) • novella by Roger Zelazny

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