Contents

• Editors’ Preface, by Everett F. Bleiler
  Everett F. Bleiler
  Everett Franklin Bleiler was an editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction, and fantasy literature. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he co-edited the first "year's best" series of science fiction anthologies, and his Checklist of Fantastic Literature has been called...
  
   & T. E. Dikty
  T. E. Dikty
  Thaddeus Maxim Eugene Dikty was one of the earliest science fiction anthologists.He started the first "Best of the Year" anthologies, called The Best Science Fiction, which ran from 1949 until 1957. In 1953, he married writer Julian May, and in 1957 the two started an editorial service for...
  
  
• Icon of the Imagination, by Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
  
  
• "DP!", by Jack Vance
  Jack Vance
  John Holbrook Vance is an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen...
  
  
• "The Big Holiday", by Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
  
  
• "The Collectors", by G. Gordon Dewey & Max Dancey
• "One in Three Hundred
  One in Three Hundred
  One in Three Hundred is a science fiction novel written by J. T. McIntosh. It was originally published as 3 novellas in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1953-54 [One in 300 , One in a Thousand , and One Too Many ], and was then published by Doubleday & Company, Inc....
  
  ", by J. T. McIntosh
  J. T. McIntosh
  J. T. McIntosh was a pseudonym used by Scottish writer and journalist James Murdoch MacGregor.-Biography:Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, but living largely in Aberdeen, MacGregor used the McIntosh pseudonym as well as "H. J...
  
  
• "Wonder Child", by Joseph Shallit
  Joseph Shallit
  Joseph Shallit was an American mystery novelist and science fiction author. He was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants from Vitebsk , born in Philadelphia under the name Joseph Shaltz...
  
  
• "Crucifixus Etiam", by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  Walter Michael Miller, Jr. was an American science fiction author. Today he is primarily known for A Canticle for Leibowitz, the only novel he published in his lifetime. Prior to its publication he was a prolific writer of short stories.- Biography :Miller was born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida...
  
  
• "The Model of a Judge", by William Morrison
• "The Last Day", by Richard Matheson
  Richard Matheson
  Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been...
  
  
• "Time Is the Traitor", by Alfred Bester
  Alfred Bester
  Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books...
  
  
• "Lot", by Ward Moore
  Ward Moore
  Ward Moore was the working name of American author Joseph Ward Moore. Moore grew up in New York City, and later moved to Chicago, and then to California....
  
  
• "Yankee Exodus", by Ruth M. Goldsmith
• "What Thin Partitions", by Mark Clifton
  Mark Clifton
  Mark Clifton was an American science fiction writer. About half of his work falls into two series: the "Bossy" series, about a computer with artificial intelligence, was written either alone or in collaboration with Alex Apostolides or Frank Riley; and the "Ralph Kennedy" series, which is more...
  
   & Alex Apostolides
• "A Bad Day for Sales", by Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
  
  
• About the Authors
• Index, the Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1949-1954

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