The Golden Age of Science Fiction (anthology)
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.
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| Author | Kingsley Amis |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Hutchinson |
Publication date | 1981 |
| Pages | 370 |
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
Reception
Dave Pringle reviewed The Golden Age of Science Fiction for Imagine magazine, and stated that "a fat collection of 1950s SF, aimed at the 'general reader' and including stories by Pohl, Blish, Sheckley, Clarke, Asimov, etc. A good anthology, but many of us will have read it all before."[1]
References
- Pringle, Dave (June 1983). "Book Review". Imagine (review). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. (3): 36.
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