Frontiers in Space by E.F. Bleiler


Frontiers in Space
Title : Frontiers in Space
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ISBN : 1345013280
ISBN-10 : 9781345013283
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 166
Publication : First published January 1, 1955

Frontiers in Space (an anthology originally published in 1955) contains a selection from the second, third and fourth volumes of
The Best Science Fiction Stories of E.F. Bleiler and T.E. Dikty (1951-1953).

• Oddy and Id - (1950) - Alfred Bester
• Process - (1950) - A. E. van Vogt
• The Star Ducks - (1950) - Bill Brown
• To Serve Man - (1950) - Damon Knight
• The Fox in the Forest - (1950) - Ray Bradbury (variant Fox and the Forest)
• Nine-Finger Jack - (1951) - Anthony Boucher
• Dark Interlude - (1951) - Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
• Generation of Noah - (1951) - William Tenn
• The Rats - (1951) - Arthur Porges
• Ararat - (1952) - Zenna Henderson
• The Moon Is Green - (1952) - Fritz Leiber
• Survival - (1952) - John Wyndham
• Machine - (1952) - John Jakes
• I Am Nothing - (1952) - Eric Frank Russell

Frontiers in Space Reviews

  • Ginger Vampyre

    Reading science fiction written before I was born is always weird. Things written that were fantastic concepts at the time and are now, almost silly.

    One of the stories features trees that have learned atomic warfare. This makes me very sad.

    I think the hardest part of reading old stories like these, is the humanity part. Reading about how non-whites are treated as less than a person, how women are inferior and weak in every way. And how humans will burn the planet just to get rid of those who are different. And the realization that not much has changed in the last 60+ years. Gods how depressing.

  • Steven Cady

    14 selections from THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES 51,52, 53. An eclectic bunch with 3 having themes of post nuclear war. Probably the bravest is DARK INTERLUDE by Frederic Brown and Mack Reynolds about a time traveler from the future who marries a backwoods southern woman and is later killed by her brother as he has mixed blood in a post racial future. Many are standard short stories which use the future or space flight to encompass human stories which could be set in any environment.