9 Tales of Space and Time is an anthology of original science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 stories edited by Raymond J. Healy

Raymond J. Healy

Raymond John Healy was a pioneering American anthologist who edited four science fiction anthologies from 1946 to 1955, two with J. Francis McComas...

, published in hardcover

Hardcover

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 by Henry Holt

Henry Holt and Company

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 in 1954. A British edition appeared in 1955, with the title rendered Nine Tales of Space and Time. No paperback editions are reported.

Contents

• "The Idealists", John W. Campbell, Jr.
• "Shock Treatment", J. Francis McComas
  J. Francis McComas
  Jesse Francis McComas was an American science fiction editor. McComas wrote several stories on his own in the 1950s using both his own name and the pseudonym Webb Marlowe....
  
  
• "Genius of the Species", Reginald Bretnor
  Reginald Bretnor
  Reginald Bretnor was a science fiction author who flourished between the 1950s and 1980s. Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist...
  
  
• "Overture", Kris Neville
• "Compound B", David H. Fink
• "The Chicken Or the Egg-Head", Frank Fenton
  Frank Fenton (writer)
  Frank Edgington Fenton was an English-born but American-bred writer of screenplays, short stories, magazine articles, and novels. He was the brother of noted actor and director Leslie Fenton.-Working Writer:...
  
  
• "The Great Devon Mystery", Raymond J. Healy
  Raymond J. Healy
  Raymond John Healy was a pioneering American anthologist who edited four science fiction anthologies from 1946 to 1955, two with J. Francis McComas...
  
  
• "Balaam", Anthony Boucher
  Anthony Boucher
  Anthony Boucher was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle...
  
  
• "Man of Parts", Horace L. Gold

Reception

P. Schuyler Miller

P. Schuyler Miller

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, noting that Healy had managed to commission stories from the editors of the major science fiction magazines of the time, described the anthology as "one of the best anthologies you'll see in 1954."