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Great Tales of Science Fiction

Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg

First published 1985
Publisher Galahad Books
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 529
Price $8.98
ISBN 0883657015


• "Published in 1985 by Galahad Books"
• Printing not stated, no number line
• Jacket states "Originally published at $16.95" [which was the price of the Arbor House edition]; price from Locus1 [no price on the book]
• "Abridged from the Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces" on the copyright page. Drops one story Travels by Carter Sholz and the postscript to Benford's Doing Lennon
• The artist is not credited, no visible signature
• LCCN: 85-080466 listed on copyright page but LOC has no record of this publication.
• Title page on page 1.
• Copyright page on page 2.
• TOC on page 3.
• "Acknowledgments" on page 7.

Page Title Author(s) Type
11 Mellonta Tauta Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
21 In the Year 2889 Jules Verne Short Story
32 Sold to Satan Mark Twain Short Story
39 The New Accelerator H. G. Wells Short Story
49 Finis Frank Lillie Pollack Short Story
58 As Easy As A. B. C. Rudyard Kipling Novelette
78 Dark Lot of One Saul M. P. Shiel Novelette
96 R. U. R. Karel Capek Novella
144 The Tissue-Culture King Julian Huxley Novelette
160 The Metal Man Jack Williamson Short Story
169 The Gostak and the Doshes Miles J. Breuer, M.D. Short Story
182 Alas, All Thinking! Harry Bates Novelette
210 The Mad Moon Stanley G. Weinbaum Novelette
227 As Never Was P. Schuyler Miller Short Story
239 Desertion Clifford D. Simak Short Story
249 The Strange Case of John Kingman Murray Leinster Short Story
261 Dreams Are Sacred Peter Phillips Novelette
279 Misbegotten Missionary Isaac Asimov Short Story
291 Dune Roller Julian May Novelette
321 Warm Robert Sheckley Short Story
328 A Bad Day for Sales Fritz Leiber Short Story
334 Man of Parts H. L. Gold Short Story
344 The Man Who Came Early Poul Anderson Novelette
363 The Burning of the Brain Cordwainer Smith Short Story
371 The Men Who Murdered Mohammed Alfred Bester Short Story
381 The Man Who Lost the Sea Theodore Sturgeon Short Story
391 Goodlife Fred Saberhagen Short Story
408 The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World Philip José Farmer Short Story
420 Gehenna K. M. O'Donnell Short Story
424 A Meeting with Medusa Arthur C. Clarke Novelette
455 Painwise James Tiptree, Jr. Novelette
470 Nobody's Home Joanna Russ Short Story
482 Think Only This of Me Michael Kurland Novelette
499 Capricorn Games Robert Silverberg Short Story
513 The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics Ursula K. Le Guin Short Story
519 Doing Lennon Gregory Benford Short Story
[5] Introduction (Great Tales of Science Fiction) Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Great Tales of Science Fiction Cover 1988 Galahad Books Hardcover Anthology 529
Great Tales of Science Fiction Cover 1994 Galahad Books Hardcover Anthology 529