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Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales

Isaac Asimov & Groff Conklin

First published 1963
Publisher Collier Books
Format Paperback
Type Anthology
Catalog ID AS516
Pages 287
Price $0.95

  • First Edition 1963
  • Published February 1963 per Cole Checklist of SF Anthologies.
  • There is another printing of this book (FFTSHRTSCN1963) that states it's the 1st edition and probably is.
  • Book number AS516 on front cover and spine, 01639 on the back cover.
  • Cover artist is not credited. No visible signature.
  • LCCN on copyright page.
  • The Arthur C. Clarke story "Who's There?" appears as "The Haunted Space Suit"
  • Though Currey verifies this book his information is mistakenly copied from a later entry on the same page (20) for More Soviet Science Fiction even to the catalogue #.
  • Copies sold in the UK had a sticker over the US price with 4s6d

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Page Title Author(s) Type
11 Introduction No. 1 (Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales) Isaac Asimov Essay
17 Introduction No. 2 (Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales) Groff Conklin Essay
23 Ballade of an Artificial Satellite Poul Anderson Poem
25 The Fun They Had Isaac Asimov Short Story
29 Men Are Different Alan Bloch Short Story
31 The Ambassadors Anthony Boucher Short Story
36 The Weapon Fredric Brown Short Story
40 Random Sample T. P. Caravan Short Story
44 Oscar Cleve Cartmill Short Story
49 The Mist Peter Cartur Short Story
53 Teething Ring James Causey Short Story
61 The Haunted Space Suit Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
67 Stair Trick Mildred Clingerman Short Story
73 Unwelcome Tenant Roger Dee Short Story
79 The Mathematicians Arthur Feldman Short Story
83 The Third Level Jack Finney Short Story
88 Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful! Stuart Friedman Short Story
92 The Figure Edward Grendon Short Story
98 The Rag Thing David Grinnell Short Story
103 The Good Provider Marion Gross Short Story
108 Columbus Was a Dope Robert A. Heinlein Short Story
113 Texas Week Albert Hernhuter Short Story
118 Hilda H. B. Hickey Short Story
123 The Choice W. Hilton-Young Short Story
125 Not with a Bang Damon Knight Short Story
131 The Altar at Midnight C. M. Kornbluth Short Story
139 A Bad Day for Sales Fritz Leiber Short Story
147 Who's Cribbing? Jack Lewis Short Story
155 Spectator Sport John D. MacDonald Short Story
161 The Cricket Ball Avro Manhattan Short Story
165 Double-Take Winston K. Marks Short Story
170 Prolog John P. McKnight Short Story
174 The Available Data on the Worp Reaction Lion Miller Short Story
178 Narapoia Alan Nelson Short Story
185 Tiger by the Tail Alan E. Nourse Short Story
192 Counter Charm Peter Phillips Short Story
194 The Fly Arthur Porges Short Story
199 The Business, As Usual Mack Reynolds Short Story
203 Two Weeks in August Frank M. Robinson Short Story
210 See? Edward G. Robles, Jr. Short Story
215 Appointment at Noon Eric Frank Russell Short Story
219 We Don't Want Any Trouble James H. Schmitz Short Story
227 Built Down Logically Howard Schoenfeld Short Story
230 An Egg a Month from All Over Idris Seabright Short Story
238 The Perfect Woman Robert Sheckley Short Story
242 The Hunters Walt Sheldon Short Story
246 The Martian and the Magician Evelyn E. Smith Short Story
253 Barney Will Stanton Short Story
256 Talent Theodore Sturgeon Short Story
265 Project Hush William Tenn Short Story
272 The Great Judge A. E. van Vogt Short Story
277 Emergency Landing Ralph Williams Short Story
282 Obviously Suicide S. Fowler Wright Short Story
287 Six Haiku Karen Anderson Poem

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales Cover 1963 Collier Books Paperback Anthology AS516 287
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Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales 1973 Collier Books Paperback Anthology 01639 Don Ivan Punchatz 287
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales Cover 1974 Collier Books Paperback Anthology 01639 Don Ivan Punchatz 287
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales Cover 1976 Collier Books Paperback Anthology 01639 Don Ivan Punchatz 287
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales Cover 1978 Collier Books Paperback Anthology Don Ivan Punchatz 287
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales Cover 1979 Collier Books Paperback Anthology Don Ivan Punchatz 287
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