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Science Fiction and Reader's Guide

Marjorie Barrows

First published 1954
Publisher Spencer Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 376

  • Available only as one of the 16 volumes of The Children's Hour (List price: $120.00). This is Volume 16 in the series.
  • "Copyright 1954 by Spencer Press" on copyright page. No statement of edition or printing. List of Children's Hour titles inside FFEP ends with this Volume.
  • Published June 1954 per Cole Checklist of SF Anthologies.
  • The first 143 pages (38% of book) have an illustrated anthology of juvenile SF stories. Includes numerous 2-color illustrations, plus an un-numbered bound-in color plate by Hardie Gramataky after page 8.
  • "Pages for Parents" start on page 144 (62% of book.) First 44 pages of this section are 9 non-genre essays on children's literature and education. Remaining 191 pages (51% of book) are short biographies of editors, authors, and illustrators, plus an index.
  • The story "Mars and Miss Pickerell" is constructed from two excerpts of Ellen MacGregor's 1951 book "Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars" (pages 50-62 and 101-128 with some of the illustrations) with additional brief intro and bridge.
  • The story "Lancelot Biggs on the Saturn" is the first 4 chapters of The Remarkable Exploits of Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman, these chapters being a revised fix-up of 2 stories, "F.O.B. Venus" and "Lancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate".
  • There is a footnote "See glossary, page 141" on page 70, the first page of "Lancelot Biggs on the Saturn". This uncredited glossary explains Nelson Bond's SFnal neologisms.

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