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Beyond Time and Space

August Derleth

First published 1950
Publisher Pellegrini & Cudahy
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages xiv+643
Price $4.50

  • "Copyright 1950 by August Derleth" on copyright page. No statement of edition or printing.
  • Published May 1950 per Cole Checklist of SF Anthologies.
  • $4.50 price on front flap of dust jacket. No credit for jacket art.
  • Derleth's "Introduction" ends on page xiv, which is immediately followed by page 3. There is no page 1 or 2.
  • Blurb on back flap of dust jacket is for Gather Darkness! by Fritz Leiber. Blurbs on back of dust jacket are for Derleth's anthologies Strange Ports of Call and The Other Side of the Moon.
  • There is no credit for the English language translation of Jules Verne's story, "Dr. Ox's Experiment". By comparison with a Google Books scan, it is a lightly edited abridgement of chapters 4, 5, and 7 through 17 of the 1874 George M. Towle translation.

Wikipedia

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Atlantis (excerpt) Plato Short Fiction
23 A True History (excerpt) Lucian of Samosata Short Story
35 Utopia (excerpt) Sir Thomas More Short Fiction
38 The Phalanstery of Theleme (excerpt) François Rabelais Short Fiction
43 The City of the Sun (excerpt) Giovanni Domenico Campanella Short Fiction
46 The New Atlantis (excerpt) Francis Bacon Short Fiction
60 Laputa (excerpt from Gulliver's Travels) Jonathan Swift Short Fiction
65 Somnium: Or the Astronomy of the Moon (excerpt) Johannes Kepler Short Fiction
86 The Man in the Moone (excerpt) Francis Godwin Short Fiction
126 The Tree Men of Potu (excerpt) Lewis Holberg Short Fiction
148 The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
166 Doctor Ox's Experiment Jules Verne Novella
205 Pausodyne Grant Allen Short Story
222 A Tale of Negative Gravity Frank R. Stockton Novelette
243 The Blindman's World Edward Bellamy Short Story
261 The Battle of the Monsters Morgan Robertson Short Story
273 The New Accelerator H. G. Wells Short Story
287 The Noise in the Night William Hope Hodgson Short Story
305 Space John Buchan Novelette
322 When the Green Star Waned Nictzin Dyalhis Novelette
347 The Revolt of the Pedestrians David H. Keller Novelette
377 The Flying Men (excerpt from Last and First Men) Olaf Stapledon Short Story
387 A Voyage to Sfanomoë Clark Ashton Smith Short Story
395 Colossus Donald Wandrei Novelette
437 The Lotus Eaters Stanley G. Weinbaum Novelette
465 Fessenden's Worlds Edmond Hamilton Short Story
478 The Seesaw A. E. van Vogt Short Story
492 Wingless Victory Henry Fitz-Gerald Heard Novelette
530 When the Bough Breaks Lewis Padgett Novelette
556 Wanted - an Enemy Fritz Leiber Short Story
570 Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall Frank Belknap Long Novelette
595 Minority Report Theodore Sturgeon Novelette
616 The Long Watch Robert A. Heinlein Short Story
630 The Exiles Ray Bradbury Short Story
vii Introduction (Beyond Time & Space) August Derleth Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Beyond Time and Space Cover 1958 Berkley Books Paperback Anthology G-104 Robert E. Schulz 174