| Title: | Arcana Caelestia |
| Notice: | Directory listings are in topic 2 |
| Moderator: | NETRIX::thomas |
| Created: | Thu Dec 08 1983 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1300 |
| Total number of notes: | 18728 |
In the 1960s (and maybe 70's and 80's, I don't read Playboy), Playboy published a number of sf&f in the mag, then anthologised into at least 1 h/c book. The copy I have, whose date page has disappeared, includes the following stories: The Fly Geaorge Langelaan Blood brother Charles Beaumont Love, Incorporated Robert Sheckley A Foot in the Door Bruce Jay Friedman The Vacation Ray Bradbury The Never Ending Penny Bernard Wolfe Bernie the Faust William Tenn A Man for the Moon Leyland Webb The Noise Ken W. Purdy The killer in the TV set Bruce Jay Friedman I remember Babylon Arthur C. Clarke Word of Honour Robert Bloch John Grant's Little Angel Walt Grove The Fiend Frederick Pohl Hard Bargin Alan E. Nourse The Nail and the Oracle Theodore Sturgeon After Henry Slesar December 28th Theodore L. Thomas Spy Story Robert Sheckley Punch Frederick Pohl The Crooked Man Charles Beaumont Who Shall Dwell H.C.Neal Double Take Jack Finney ! see P.S. Examination Day Henry Slesar The Mission Hugh Nissenson Waste Not, Want Not John Atherton The Dot-Dash Bird Bernard Wolfe The Sensible Man Avram Davidson Souvenir J.G.Ballard Puppet Show Fredric Brown The Room Ray Russell Dial "F" for Frankenstein Arthur C. Clarke =*= Are there any more anthologies like this? This must be one of the best collections I've ever read! What present-day magazines have this calibre of stories? I read an OMNI anthology or two, but they were in mag format themselves. Did Playboy publish any more? I'd love to know. andy leslie P.S. Double Take is the short story that begat a GREAT book! ( and a POOR film)
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| 35.1 | ROYAL::RAVAN | Thu Mar 01 1984 16:06 | 5 | ||
I don't remember seeing any more Playboy sf anthologies, but they did a similar book on horror stories (excellent), and I believe a mystery and an adventure one as well. -B | |||||
| 35.2 | PUFFIN::GRUBER | Fri Mar 02 1984 12:24 | 3 | ||
For what its worth, Robert Anton Wilson used to be an editor at Playboy. Mike | |||||
| 35.3 | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | Fri Mar 09 1984 09:08 | 8 | ||
Hi, I've been USENET hacking for a couple of months now, but this is my first contrib to the NOTES. I answered the Playboy SF & F question in SFL. It's long, so I won't repost it here, but if anyone reading this that doesn't get SFL wants the list (contents and all), send me mail and I'll post it to you. ---jayembee (Jerry Boyajian) | |||||