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Big Book of Science Fiction

Groff Conklin

First published 1950
Publisher Crown Publishers
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages vii+545
Price $3.00

The Berkley Medallion paperback editions reprint only some of the stories from the Crown hardcover.

  • Price from Inside flap.
  • Publication date from Kirkus Reviews.

Page Title Author(s) Type
11 Mr. Murphy of New York Thomas McMorrow Short Story
23 The Diminishing Draft Waldemar Kaempffert Short Story
40 Peacebringer Ward Moore Novelette
60 A Matter of Form Horace L. Gold Novella
107 The Planetoid of Doom Morrison Colladay Short Story
127 One Leg Too Many W. Alexander Short Story
133 The Man with the Strange Head Miles J. Breuer, M.D. Short Story
140 Defense Mechanism Katherine MacLean Short Story
146 Margin for Error Lewis Padgett Novelette
177 Isolationist Mack Reynolds Short Story
183 Nobody Saw the Ship Murray Leinster Short Story
196 Mewhu's Jet Theodore Sturgeon Novelette
226 The Outer Limit Graham Doar Short Story
235 Rat Race Dorothy de Courcy & John de Courcy Short Story
248 Dear Devil Eric Frank Russell Novelette
277 Emergency Landing Ralph Williams Short Story
280 The Ship That Turned Aside Green Peyton Novelette
304 Manna Peter Phillips Novelette
324 The Long Dawn Noel Loomis Novelette
346 E for Effort T. L. Sherred Novelette
387 The Roger Bacon Formula Fletcher Pratt Short Story
399 The Wings of Night Lester del Rey Short Story
413 Desertion Clifford D. Simak Short Story
423 Contact, Incorporated Robertson Osborne Novelette
451 Arena Fredric Brown Novelette
473 Culture Jerry Shelton Short Story
488 In the Year 2889 Jules Verne Short Story
500 Forever and the Earth Ray Bradbury Short Story
513 The Miniature Peter Reed Short Story
521 Sanity Fritz Leiber Short Story
533 The Only Thing We Learn C. M. Kornbluth Short Story
541 Not with a Bang Damon Knight Short Story
v Introduction (Big Book of Science Fiction) Groff Conklin Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Big Book of Science Fiction Cover 1957 Berkley Books Paperback Anthology G-53 Richard Powers (artist) 187
Big Book of Science Fiction Cover 1957 Berkley Books Paperback Anthology G-53 Richard Powers (artist) 187