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The Metal Man

Jack Williamson

First published December 1928
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Available on page 498, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?GRSBCKYR1999">Bleiler (Gernsback)</a>.

An updated version of this short story was published by Williamson in his 1969 Ace collection, 'The Pandora Effect'.
First appearance in "Amazing Stories", December 1928, illustrated by Frank R. Paul.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1928 Cover Amazing Stories, December 1928 Experimenter Publishing Company MAGAZINE 792
September 1939 Cover Tales of Wonder, #8 World's Work MAGAZINE 42
May 1948 Cover Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 6 Avon Book Co. MAGAZINE 31
October 1965 Cover Amazing Stories, October 1965 Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc. MAGAZINE 100
June 1967 Cover The Best of Amazing Doubleday Anthology 126
October 1968 The Best of Amazing Robert Hale Anthology
1969 Cover The Pandora Effect Ace Books Collection 33
June 1969 Cover The Best of Amazing Belmont Books Anthology 111
September 1972 Cover A Spectrum of Worlds Doubleday Anthology 91
August 1973 Cover Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes Follett Publishing Company Anthology 21
August 1975 Cover The Early Williamson Doubleday Collection 4
1978 Cover The Early Williamson Sphere Collection 23
June 1978 Cover The Best of Jack Williamson Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 1
March 1979 Cover Urania #773 Mondadori MAGAZINE 22
June 1979 Cover Sirius, #36 Vjesnik MAGAZINE 8
June 1980 Cover Die besten Stories von Jack Williamson Moewig Collection 15
April 1983 Cover The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces Arbor House Anthology 160
January 1984 Cover The Best of Jack Williamson Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 1
February 1984 Cover The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces Priam Books / Arbor House Anthology 160
1985 Cover Great Tales of Science Fiction Galahad Books Anthology 160
January 1987 Cover Amazing Science Fiction Anthology: The Wonder Years 1926-1935 TSR Anthology 11
June 1988 Cover Great Tales of Science Fiction Galahad Books Anthology 160
1991 Cover Almanah România literară 1991 România literară Anthology 208
1992 Cover The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 59
1992 Cover The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories QPD Anthology 59
October 1992 Cover The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 59
February 1993 Cover La Stazione della Stella Morta Mondadori Collection 35
May 1993 Cover La Stazione della Stella Morta Mondadori Collection 35
October 1993 Cover The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 59
March 1994 Cover Great Tales of Science Fiction Galahad Books Anthology 160
April 1997 Cover Decades of Science Fiction NTC Publishing Group Anthology 78
April 1997 Cover Decades of Science Fiction NTC Publishing Group Anthology 78
1998 Cover Big Bangs: Famous First Stories by Science Fiction Masters Sovereign Media Co. Anthology 9
May 1999 Cover The Metal Man and Others Haffner Press Collection 3
May 1999 Cover The Metal Man and Others Haffner Press Collection 3
May 1999 Cover The Metal Man and Others Haffner Press Collection 3
May 2000 Cover Holt Anthology of Science Fiction Holt, Rinehart and Winston Anthology 111
January 2003 Cover The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 59
March 2003 Cover The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 59
August 2004 Cover Seventy-Five: The Diamond Anniversary of a Science Fiction Pioneer Haffner Press Collection 25
August 2004 Cover Seventy-Five: The Diamond Anniversary of a Science Fiction Pioneer Haffner Press Collection 25
June 2011 Cover Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |104
December 2011 Cover Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |104
April 2016 Cover The Best of Amazing Stories: The 1928 Anthology Experimenter Publishing Company Anthology 76