• Publication: The Great SF Stories #16 (1954)Publication Record # 209641
• Editors: Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg
• Date: date unknown
• ISBN: 0-88677-200-1 [978-0-88677-200-0]
• Publisher: DAW Books
• Price:
  $3.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 350
• 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 SF Stories #16 (1954) (1987) • by Angus McKie (variant of Promised Land 1978)
• Notes:

  • Second Printing according to number line.
  • DAW Book Collectors No. 709.
  • The Title on the spine is "The Great SF Stories: 16. The Title on the cover is "The Great SF Stories: 16 (1954)"
  • Introduction not signed, but according to Isaac Asimov in an essay from Gold, he stated that all of the Introductions from this series were written by Greenberg.
  • "1954 Introduction" is called "Introduction" on the ToC.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • 1954 Introduction (The Great SF Stories 16) • (1987) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• 13 • The Test • (1954) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 34 • Anachron • (1954) • short story by Damon Knight
• 54 • Black Charlie • (1954) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 72 • Down Among the Dead Men • (1954) • novelette by William Tenn
• 100 • The Hunting Lodge • (1954) • novelette by Randall Garrett
• 138 • The Lysenko Maze • (1953) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 151 • Fondly Fahrenheit • (1954) • novelette by Alfred Bester
• 174 • The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• 203 • Letters from Laura • (1954) • short story by Mildred Clingerman
• 211 • Transformer • (1954) • short story by Chad Oliver
• 227 • The Music Master of Babylon • [Tales of a Darkening World] • (1954) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• 258 • The End of Summer • (1954) • novelette by Algis Budrys
• 289 • The Father-Thing • (1954) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 304 • The Deep Range • (1955) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 315 • Balaam • (1954) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 332 • Man of Parts • (1954) • short story by H. L. Gold
• 349 • Answer • (1954) • short story by Fredric Brown