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Stranger Station

Damon Knight

First published December 1956
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

One man is sent to collect a consignment of life-extending drug from an alien. He isn't allowed to know much about the mission, but has heard some ugly rumours. As the drug is slowly extracted from the alien, the man realises what is happening, and why the aliens give the drug to humanity.

Publications (47)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1956 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1956 Fantasy House, Inc. MAGAZINE 3
June 1957 Cover SF: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: Second Annual Volume Dell Anthology 119
July 1957 Cover SF:'57: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy Gnome Press Anthology 119
November 1957 Cover SF: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: Second Annual Volume Dell Anthology 119
May 1963 Cover In Deep Berkley Medallion Collection 64
1964 Cover In Deep Gollancz Collection
1965 Cover Spectrum IV Harcourt, Brace & World Anthology 271
1965 Cover Spectrum IV Gollancz Anthology 271
April 1965 Cover In Deep The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Collection
1966 Cover In Deep Corgi Collection 69
March 1966 Spectrum 4 The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Anthology
August 1966 Cover Spectrum 4 Berkley Medallion Anthology 242
September 1966 Cover Earthmen and Strangers Duell, Sloan and Pearce Anthology 138
1967 Cover Spectrum IV Pan Books Anthology 284
1967 Cover Spectrum IV Pan Books Anthology 284
May 1967 Earthmen and Strangers Meredith Press / Duell, Sloan and Pearce Anthology 138
November 1967 Cover SF: The Best of the Best Delacorte Press Anthology 143
1968 Cover SF: The Best of the Best Rupert Hart-Davis Anthology 143
July 1968 Cover Earthmen and Strangers Dell Anthology 113
July 1968 Cover Earthmen and Strangers Dell Anthology 113
August 1968 Cover SF: The Best of the Best Dell Anthology 143
August 1968 Cover SF: The Best of the Best Dell Anthology 143
November 1969 Cover Spectrum 4 Berkley Medallion Anthology 242
1970 Cover SF The Best of the Best Part One Mayflower Anthology 126
1972 Cover In Deep Manor Books Collection 71
1972 Cover Bug-Eyed Monsters Sidgwick & Jackson Anthology 178
1974 Cover Modern Science Fiction Anchor Press / Doubleday Anthology 136
1974 Cover Modern Science Fiction Anchor Press / Doubleday Anthology 136
June 1974 Cover Bug-Eyed Monsters Panther Anthology 163
March 1975 Cover Looking Ahead Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Anthology 219
June 1976 Cover Modern Science Fiction Gregg Press Anthology 136
1977 Cover Earthmen and Strangers Manor Books Anthology 138
1978 Cover In Deep Magnum Collection 67
March 1980 Cover Bug-Eyed Monsters Harvest / HBJ Anthology 7
April 1980 Cover The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction Priam Books / Arbor House Anthology 631
April 1980 Cover The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction Arbor House Anthology 631
November 1987 Cover Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century Avenel Books Anthology 631
August 1988 Cover The Great SF Stories # 18 (1956) DAW Books Anthology 300
August 1988 Cover The Great SF Stories # 18 (1956) DAW Books Anthology 300
January 1989 Cover The World Treasury of Science Fiction Little, Brown / BOMC Anthology 657
February 1989 Cover The World Treasury of Science Fiction Little, Brown Anthology 657
February 1989 Earthmen and Strangers Bart Books Anthology 113
June 1989 Cover The World Treasury of Science Fiction Little, Brown / QPBC Anthology 657
August 2014 Cover Far Out / In Deep / Off Centre / Turning On Gollancz / Orion Omnibus 230
July 2016 Cover The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology 309
July 2016 Cover The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology |29
July 2016 Cover The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Crime/Black Lizard / SFBC Anthology 309