Adventures in Time and Space Author:Raymond J. Healy (Editor), J. Francis McComas (Editor) Many anthologies contain classic stories but very few achieve classic status themselves. This is one of them. First published in 1946, during the Golden Age of SF when Cambpell's Law (named for Astounding magazine editor John W. Campbell) put equal stress on the words "Science" and "Fiction", Adventures in Time and Space ... more »contains 33 stories as exciting today as when the book first appeared. Inside you'll find landmark works ranging from the fantastic to the prophetic, from the provocative to the frivolous plus voyages of exploration and inquiry.
Including two nonfiction articles on rocketry and time travel, this entertaining and visionary odyssey helped lend credibility to an often disparaged genre and is today considered the definitive SF anthology of all time.
Contents:
Introduction (Adventures in Time and Space) •(1946) • essay by Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas;
Requiem [D. D. Harriman] (1940) / Robert A. Heinlein;
Forgetfulness (1937) / John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart];
Nerves (1942) / Lester del Rey;
The Sands of Time [Sands of Time • 1] (1937) / P. Schuyler Miller;
The Proud Robot [Gallegher] (1943) / Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett];
Black Destroyer [Space Beagle] (1939) / A. E. van Vogt;
Symbiotica [Jay Score/Marathon • 3] (1943) / Eric Frank Russell;
Seeds of the Dusk (1938) / Raymond Z. Gallun;
Heavy Planet (1939) / Milton A. Rothman [as by Lee Gregor];
Time Locker [Gallegher] (1943) / Henry Kuttner [as by Lewis Padgett];
The Link (1942) / Cleve Cartmill;
Mechanical Mice (1941) / Eric Frank Russell and Maurice G. Hugi;
V-2: Rocket Cargo Ship (1945) • essay by Willy Ley;
Adam and No Eve (1941) / Alfred Bester;
Nightfall (1941) / Isaac Asimov;
A Matter of Size (1934) / Harry Bates;
As Never Was (1944) / P. Schuyler Miller;
Q. U. R. (1943) / Anthony Boucher;
Who Goes There? (1938) / John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart];
The Roads Must Roll [Future History] (1940) / Robert A. Heinlein;
Asylum (1942) / A. E. van Vogt;
Quietus (1940) / Ross Rocklynne;
The Twonky (1942) / Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett];
Time-Travel Happens! (1939) • essay by A. M. Phillips;
Robot's Return (1938) / Robert Moore Williams;
The Blue Giraffe (1939) / L. Sprague de Camp;
Flight into Darkness (1943) / J. Francis McComas [as by Webb Marlowe];
The Weapons Shop [Weapon Shops of Isher] (1946) / A. E. van Vogt;
Farewell to the Master (1940) / Harry Bates;
Within the Pyramid (1937) / R. DeWitt Miller;
He Who Shrank (1936) / Henry Hasse;
By His Bootstraps (1941) / Robert A. Heinlein [as by Anson MacDonald];
The Star Mouse (1942) / Fredric Brown;
Correspondence Course (1945) / Raymond F. Jones;
Brain (1932) / S. Fowler Wright.
Also published by Modern Library & Random House in 1957 as: "Famous Science-Fiction Stories".« less