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Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction : Fourth Series
anthology
science fiction
Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction : Fourth Series
anthology
science fiction
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1986...
1986
Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction : Fourth Series
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Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Fourth Series is a 1984 hardcover reprint of Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) and Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 8 (1946). It is the fourth in a series of 6 two-volume books which together reprinted the first 12 of 25 books in the Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories series of compilations.
The 'Introduction' is the combined contents of the two introductions to the individual volumes, then each story follows in order of original publication with individual introductions by both editors. The authors include: Fredric Brown, Isaac Asimov, Murray Leinster, Lester del Rey, A. Bertram Chandler, Lewis Padgett, Theodore Sturgeon, Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury.
The 'Introduction' is the combined contents of the two introductions to the individual volumes, then each story follows in order of original publication with individual introductions by both editors. The authors include: Fredric Brown, Isaac Asimov, Murray Leinster, Lester del Rey, A. Bertram Chandler, Lewis Padgett, Theodore Sturgeon, Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury.
Notes
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Four stories from the original books are not included: 'De Profundis' by Murray Leinster, 'Pi in the Sky' by Fredric Brown, 'Absalom' by Henry Kuttner and 'Mewhu's Jet' by Theodore Sturgeon.
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Giant Killer,
single work
short story
science fiction
(p. 264-312)
'"Giant Killer" is a closed universe story wherein the characters (or at least some of them) do not realize that their environment constitutes only a small, confined space. It is arguably his finest work of science fiction'. (Isaac Asimov, ctd. www.bertramchandler.com)
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