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NESFA Press, 1998 |
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Synopsis
A collection of the trend-setting stories of "the Dean of Science Fiction" which opened and explored such topics as first contact with aliens, the Internet, transfers among parallel universes, and many more. This collection contains two stories not previously published, and it contains an introduction by Hal Clement, with cover art by Hannibal King.
Table of Contents:
- Will - (1998) - essay by Hal Clement
- Editor's Introduction and Acknowledgments - (1998) - essay by Joe Rico
- A Logic Named Joe - (1946) - short story
- If You Was a Moklin - (1951) - novelette
- The Ethical Equations - (1945) - short story
- Keyhole - (1951) - short story
- Doomsday Deferred - (1949) - short story
- First Contact - (1945) - novelette
- Nobody Saw the Ship - (1950) - short story
- Pipeline to Pluto - (1945) - short story
- The Lonely Planet - (1949) - novelette
- De Profundis - (1945) - short story
- The Power - (1945) - short story
- The Castaway - (1953) - novelette
- The Strange Case of John Kingman - (1948) - short story
- Proxima Centauri - (1935) - novella
- The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator - (1935) - short story
- Sam, This Is You - (1955) - novelette
- Sidewise in Time - (1934) - novella
- Scrimshaw - (1955) - short story
- Symbiosis - (1947) - short story
- Cure for a Ylith - (1949) - short story
- Plague on Kryder II - (1964) - novella
- Exploration Team - (1956) - novelette
- Introduction to the Unpublished Stories - (1998) - essay by Joe Rico
- The Great Catastrophe - (1998) - novelette
- To All Fat Policemen - (1998) - short story
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