One of the seminal collections of science fiction’s golden age may be out of print but can still be located with ease in used hardcover editions on line.
Famous Science Fiction Stories-Adventures in Time and Space edited by Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas contains 35 stories by some of the most legendary names in science fiction literature.
Works include:
- Nightfall by Isaac Asimov about a planet that experiences night only once every two millennia
- Who Goes There? By legendary Astounding Magazine editor John W. Campbell Jr. under his pen name Don A. Stewart that later was adapted for the screen as The Thing From Another World in 1951 and The Thing by filmmaker John Carpenter in 1982.
- The Roads Must Roll by Robert Heinlein about labor agitation by the mechanics who maintain the rolling conveyers crucial to transportation in a future society.
- As Never Was by P. Schuyler Miller, about a time loop and its ultimate paradox.
- Q.U.R. by William Anthony Parker White doing business as Anthony Boucher one of several robot stories in the anthology from science fiction’s Golden Age.
Here’s an in depth review of the 1946 publication from the Spiral Galaxy Book Review.
This was one of my own favorite volumes of Science-Fiction during my college years simply because it lay the groundwork for everything that has come since.
If you have some other great early collections to recommend please leave them in the comment section.
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