Publication: Great Science Fiction by Scientists

Publication: Great Science Fiction by ScientistsPublication Record # 15925
Editor: Groff Conklin
Date: 1962-06-00
Catalog ID: AS 218
Publisher: Collier Books
Price:
$0.95^?$: US dollar
Pages: 313
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
Notes: • "A Collier Books Original" • "First Edition 1962". Published June 1962 per Cole Checklist. • There are at least three different printings of this book that match all of the above information:
- (Version 1): Catalog number given without space (AS218), with a white, blue and purple illustration of lab equipment.
- (Version 2 [This publication record]): Catalog number with space (AS 218), with simpler illustration of a brain on a mostly gold cover. Also no ads in back pages.
- (Version 3): Like number two but with ads and mostly rust colored cover.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 1132530
- Reginald-1: 03280

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

9 • On Science Fiction by Scientists • (1962) • essay by Groff Conklin
17 • What If ... • (1952) • short story by Isaac Asimov
33 • The Ultimate Catalyst • (1939) • novelette by John Taine [as by Eric Temple Bell]
61 • The Gostak and the Doshes • (1930) • short story by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
83 • Summertime on Icarus • (1960) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
97 • The Neutrino Bomb • (1961) • short story by Ralph S. Cooper
101 • Last Year's Grave Undug • (1962) • short story by Chan Davis
123 • The Gold-Makers • (1932) • short story by J. B. S. Haldane
145 • The Tissue-Culture King • (1926) • novelette by Julian Huxley
171 • A Martian Adventure • (1937) • novella by Willy Ley (variant of At the Perihelion)
225 • Learning Theory • (1957) • short story by James McConnell
241 • The Mother of Necessity • (1955) • short story by Chad Oliver
257 • John Sze's Future • (1962) • short story by John R. Pierce
267 • Kid Anderson • (1956) • short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Robert S. Richardson]
279 • Pilot Lights of the Apocalypse • (1946) • short story by Dr. Louis N. Ridenour
289 • Grand Central Terminal • (1952) • short story by Leo Szilard (variant of Report on "Grand Central Terminal")
297 • The Brain • (1952) • short story by Norbert Wiener

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