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{PDF EPUB} the Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy by Judith Merril the Great Gnome Press Science Fiction Odyssey Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy by Judith Merril The Great Gnome Press Science Fiction Odyssey. Close Up: SF 58: The Year’s Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy. Judith Merril, editor 1958. Very nice condition. There isn’t really much to talk about with this, just a couple of things to point out – all on the dust jacket. Nice, bright and clean. The only blemish on the cover is down on the lower right corner – you can see a small strange circular stain. The spine of the jacket looks like it might be faded as well. It’s hard to tell. I mean it’s definitely a lighter color, but I don’t really know if that’s by design or not. The bare cloth boards look fantastic. They are unblemished, bright and there is only one very small bump on the bottom front corner. The head and tail of the spine are in superb condition. The view from the top looks just as good. Just a bit of dust spotting to the top of the block. The bottom looks great. Nice and white as the text block is within. Quite exceptional for a Gnome Press book of the later years. At least some noticeable discoloration is usually evident. Not so here. The head and tail of the spine look great too. Just a couple of very minute closed tears. On to the rear of the cover and we can see the major defect. It looks like a sticker has been removed at some point from the upper left hand corner. A disappointing end to a book in otherwise fantastic condition. Still, for 8 bucks… I’m not complaining!! Sweet Freedom. In 1956, Judith Merril was already a veteran anthologist in the fantastic-fiction arena, her first effort thus a 1950 assem bly of sf, fantasy and horror from Bantam entitled Shot in the Dark in part because that's how the publishers looked at the project; you don't see stories by Jack London, Merril's old Futurian Society friend John Michel and Marjorie Allingham in immediate succession in too many books then, or now. She was given, by Dell, the opportunity to edit the second US-based Best of the Year series to focus on short sf and fantasy, stressing the former . she could live with that. S-F in her early volumes officially stood for "science-fantasy" in the broadest sense (later, it abbreviated her revival of Robert Heinlein's suggestion of "speculative fiction"--covering all the fantastic, as Merril used it). Since 1949, there had already been a primarily science fictional BOTY, from the minor but professional hardcover house Frederick Fell, edited by Everett F. Bleiler and Ted Dikty (and George Kelley has been reviewing each in turn); Bleiler tapped out with the 1954 volumes, The Best Science Fiction of the Year and Year's Best Science Fiction Novels (devoted to novelets and novellas) , perhaps in part because Fell didn't want to go forward with the longer-story annual, and the remaining volumes combined the shorter and longer stories. Dikty came to depend more and more on unofficial co-editor Earl Kemp, who was also part of the group of s-f/fanzine/convention fans who in 1955 came together to form Advent: Publishers, mostly with the intent of collecting Damon Knight's critical essays and reviews in book form, and In Search of Wonder saw its first edition that year. Advent decided to continue in that mode (publishing books about sf and related matter by James Blish, Robert Bloch and others), and apparently Fell, which began publishing operations in 1949 with, among other books, an artistically wildly uneven and not terribly commercial set of sf releases, and whose sf program shrank almost immediately to their two annuals, decided after the 1956 volume that they didn't want to publish The Best Science Fiction of the Year either, and so there was no 1957 volume. but there was a 1958 volume, published via a partnership between Advent and Doubleday's Science Fiction Book Club: Doubleday printed the copies, including the perhaps thousand or so Advent received for sale to the general and library trade, while the SFBC edition, identical except for the lack of price on the jacket and "Book Club Edition" in its usual place on the front flap, was made available to the membership. The fan-initiated Gnome Press, one of the most prosperous (but apparently not the most ethically-run) of the small houses publishing a lot of sf and fantasy magazine reprint material the larger houses weren't picking up too readily in the early and mid 1950s, got the rights to publish the hardcover editions for the first several volumes from Dell, till Gnome began to completely collapse and Merril and Dell struck up a deal with Simon & Schuster for the hardcover editions with the fourth volume. Meanwhile, the Richard Powers cover for the Dell paperback and the Edward Emshwiller design for the Gnome hardcover jacket were both typically impressive. one wonders who misspelled Avram Davidson's name below, however--and left off Shirley Jackson's name altogether! Introduction · Orson Welles · in Preface · Judith Merril · pr The Stutterer · R. R. Merliss · nv Astounding Apr 1955 The Golem · Avram Davidson · ss F&SF Mar 1955 Junior · Robert Abernathy · ss Galaxy Jan 1956 The Cave of Night · James E. Gunn · ss Galaxy Feb 1955 The Hoofer · Walter M. Miller, Jr. · ss Fantastic Universe Sep 1955 Bulkhead · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Galaxy Mar 1955, as “Who?” Sense from Thought Divide [ Ralph Kennedy ] · Mark Clifton · nv Astounding Mar 1955 Pottage [ People ] · Zenna Henderson · nv F&SF Sep 1955 Nobody Bothers Gus · Algis Budrys · ss Astounding Nov 1955, as by Paul Janvier The Last Day of Summer · E. C. Tubb · ss Science-Fantasy #12 1955 One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts · Shirley Jackson · ss F&SF Jan 1955 The Ethicators · Willard Marsh · ss If Aug 1955 Birds Can’t Count · Mildred Clingerman · ss F&SF Feb 1955 Of Missing Persons · Jack Finney · ss Good Housekeeping Mar 1955 Dreaming Is a Private Thing · Isaac Asimov · ss F&SF Dec 1955 The Country of the Kind · Damon Knight · ss F&SF Feb 1956 The Public Hating · Steve Allen · ss Bluebook Jan 1955 Home There’s No Returning · Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore · nv No Boundaries , Ballantine 1955 The Year’s S-F, Summation and Honorable Mentions · Judith Merril · ms. 1 · The Science-Fiction Year · T. E. Dikty · ar 14 · 2066: Election Day · Michael Shaara · ss Astounding Dec 1956 28 · The Mile-Long Spaceship · Kate Wilhelm · ss Astounding Apr 1957 37 · The Last Victory · Tom Godwin · ss If Aug 1957 53 · Call Me Joe · Poul Anderson · nv Astounding Apr 1957 85 · Didn’t He Ramble · Chad Oliver · ss F&SF Apr 1957 97 · The Queen’s Messenger · John J. McGuire · nv Astounding May 1957 119 · The Other People · Leigh Brackett · nv Venture Mar 1957, as “The Queer Ones” 155 · Into Your Tent I’ll Creep · Eric Frank Russell · ss Astounding Sep 1957 164 · Nor Dust Corrupt · James V. McConnell · ss If Feb 1957 178 · Nightsound · Algis Budrys · ss Satellite Science Fiction Feb 1957, as “The Attic Voice” 189 · The Tunesmith · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · nv If Aug 1957 226 · Hunting Machine · Carol Emshwiller · ss Science Fiction Stories May 1957 233 · The Science-Fiction Book Index · Earl Kemp · ix. one character to another in terms of point of view in a scene to no good purpose, and explains every action of his characters at times in such a way that should've been pruned, but this was the beginning of the Tin Age at John Campbell's Astounding , where his attention was beginning to be concentrated in fringe "science" and the political content of his editorials, and such miserable writers as E. B. Cole and the blandest sort of yard- goods writing by those who could do better, such as the young Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett, began to be staples of the magazine. Not a terrible story, but probably the worst in the book, and a very poor choice to start with. The next, much better story is also about an android, one of Avram Davidson's most famous, if a bit heavy on the fan service and easy schtick, "The Golem". an elderly couple, the Gumbeiners, are visited one afternoon by a lumbering, gray-complected fellow who invites himself up onto their front porch, and begins to lecture them about how there is clearly an innate emnity between humanity and androids such as itself. The Gumbeiners are unimpressed. Humor, a bit more labored, continues with Robert Abernathy's "Junior", involving sentient polypoid sea creatures including an innovative young male who manages to upset tradition. A lot of fan service in this one, though with a cute notion to end with. James Gunn's "The Cave of Night" is, like the Davidson, his earliest widely- cited story, an account of the first human astronaut, launched in military secrecy and on a budget mission. and apparently through misadventure stranded in his disabled space capsule in Earth orbit, making broadcasts to the Earth below over shortwave as he awaits probably unlikely rescue or for his oxygen to run out in about a month's time. The pompous tone which runs through the piece is not completely excused by it being told by an old newspaper-reporter friend of the broadcasting astronaut. Nicely encapsulates the notion of three-stage rocketry for Earth-based space exploration, and deftly describes the impressive vistas from an orbiting craft, though. More to come.
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