- Publication: Fifty Short Science Fiction TalesPublication Record # 209141
- Editors: Isaac Asimov, Groff Conklin
- Date: date unknown
- ISBN: 0-02-016390-8 [978-0-02-016390-9]
- Publisher: Collier Books
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Price: $5.95?$: US dollar
- Pages: 287
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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: Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales (1966) • by Don Punchatz [as by Don Ivan Punchatz]
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Notes: [WIP] A 31st printing of unknown date. [Need to add "The Haunted Space Suit by Arthur C. Clarke.]
Anthology Title:
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales • (1963) • anthology by
Isaac Asimov and Groff Conklin
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- An Egg a Month from All Over • (1952) • short story by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright]
- Appointment at Noon • (1954) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
- Barney • (1951) • short story by Will Stanton
- Built Down Logically • (1951) • short story by Howard Schoenfeld
- Counter Charm • (1951) • short story by Peter Phillips
- Double-Take • (1953) • short story by Winston K. Marks
- Emergency Landing • (1940) • short story by Ralph Williams
- Narapoia • [Dr. Manly J. Departure] • (1948) • short story by Alan Nelson
- Obviously Suicide • (1951) • short story by S. Fowler Wright
- Project Hush • (1954) • short story by William Tenn
- Prolog • (1951) • short story by John P. McKnight
- See? • (1954) • short story by Edward G. Robles, Jr.
- Six Haiku • (1962) • poem by Karen Anderson
- Spectator Sport • (1950) • short story by John D. MacDonald
- Talent • (1953) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
- The Available Data on the Worp Reaction • (1953) • short story by Lion Miller
- The Business, As Usual • (1952) • short story by Mack Reynolds
- The Cricket Ball • (1955) • short story by Avro Manhattan
- The Fly • (1952) • short story by Arthur Porges
- The Great Judge • (1948) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
- The Hunters • (1952) • short story by Walt Sheldon
- The Martian and the Magician • (1952) • short story by Evelyn E. Smith
- The Perfect Woman • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
- Tiger by the Tail • (1951) • short story by Alan E. Nourse
- Two Weeks in August • (1951) • short story by Frank M. Robinson
- We Don't Want Any Trouble • (1953) • short story by James H. Schmitz
- Who's Cribbing? • (1953) • short story by Jack Lewis
- 11 • Introduction No. 1 (Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales) • [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] • (1963) • essay by Isaac Asimov
- 17 • Introduction No. 2 (Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales) • (1963) • essay by Groff Conklin
- 23 • Ballade of an Artificial Satellite • (1958) • poem by Poul Anderson
- 25 • The Fun They Had • juvenile • (1951) • short story by Isaac Asimov
- 29 • Men Are Different • (1954) • short story by Alan Bloch
- 31 • The Ambassadors • (1952) • short story by Anthony Boucher
- 36 • The Weapon • (1951) • short story by Fredric Brown
- 40 • Random Sample • (1953) • short story by T. P. Caravan
- 44 • Oscar • (1941) • short story by Cleve Cartmill
- 49 • The Mist • (1952) • short story by Peter Grainger [as by Peter Cartur]
- 53 • Teething Ring • (1953) • short story by James Causey
- 61 • The Haunted Space Suit • (1963) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Who's There? 1958)
- 67 • Stair Trick • (1952) • short story by Mildred Clingerman
- 73 • Unwelcome Tenant • (1950) • short story by Roger Dee
- 79 • The Mathematicians • (1953) • short story by Arthur Feldman
- 83 • The Third Level • (1950) • short story by Jack Finney
- 88 • Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful! • (1952) • short story by Stuart Friedman
- 92 • The Figure • (1947) • short story by Edward Grendon
- 98 • The Rag Thing • (1951) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim [as by David Grinnell]
- 103 • The Good Provider • (1952) • short story by Marion Gross
- 108 • Columbus Was a Dope • (1947) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
- 113 • Texas Week • (1954) • short story by Albert Hernhuter
- 118 • Hilda • (1952) • short story by H. B. Hickey
- 123 • The Choice • (1953) • short story by Wayland Hilton-Young [as by W. Hilton-Young]
- 125 • Not with a Bang • (1950) • short story by Damon Knight
- 131 • The Altar at Midnight • (1952) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
- 139 • A Bad Day for Sales • (1953) • short story by Fritz Leiber
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