The Golden Age of Science Fiction (anthology)
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| Author | Kingsley Amis |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Hutchinson |
Publication date | 1981 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 370 |
The Golden Age of Science Fiction is an anthology of science fiction short stories all originally published between 1949 and 1962. The stories were selected and introduced by Kingsley Amis, who also wrote an Editor's Note and a 21-page Introduction. The collection was first published by Hutchinson in 1981 and was released in paperback by Penguin in 1983.
Contents
The book includes the following stories:
- "The Quest for Saint Aquin", by Anthony Boucher
- "The Xi Effect", by Philip Latham
- "The Tunnel under the World", by Frederik Pohl
- "Old Hundredth", by Brian Aldiss
- "A Work of Art", by James Blish
- "Harrison Bergeron", by Kurt Vonnegut
- "The Voices of Time", by J. G. Ballard
- "Specialist", by Robert Sheckley
- "He Walked Around the Horses", by H. Beam Piper
- "The Game of Rat and Dragon", by Cordwainer Smith
- "The Nine Billion Names of God", by Arthur C. Clarke
- "The Streets of Ashkelon", by Harry Harrison
- "The Country of the Kind", by Damon Knight
- "The Machine that Won the War", by Isaac Asimov
- "Student Body", by F. L. Wallace
- "It's a Good Life", by Jerome Bixby
- "Sister Planet", by Poul Anderson
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