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| 268.1 | | NANDI::FEHSKENS | | Thu Oct 17 1985 16:34 | 6 |
| It's apparently being remaindered, of all things. Warning - the binding's
not great - mine's already got pages falling out. Buy it anyway. It must
be available elsewhere - I can't imagine my local "corner" bookstore's
cornered the market on it.
len.
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| 268.2 | | TROLL::RUDMAN | | Fri Oct 18 1985 13:22 | 7 |
| Wednesday evening there were 14 left. (I figure there were ~ 30, not 20
left as I originally guess-timated.) And yes, while its not a well-made
copy, its the only one we got.
Don
P.S. I see Asimov's 2nd "Aurora" novel has hit the bookstores.
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| 268.3 | | JEREMY::REDFORD | | Sat Oct 19 1985 07:46 | 5 |
| This was one of the first sf books I ever read. Instant addiction.
Remember "Heavy Planet" and "He Who Shrank"? There's a lot of classic
stuff here that's hard to find anywhere else. It was seminal book for
sf publishing, too; I believe it was the first major hardback anthology.
/jlr
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| 268.4 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | | Tue Oct 22 1985 03:32 | 18 |
| I'm not sure that it's *the* first major sf anthology. It's certainly in
the running. Classic anthologies that were published before ADVENTURES IN
TIME AND SPACE (1946) are:
THE MOONLIGHT TRAVELER (ed. Philip van Doren Stern) --- 1943
[Published in paperback as GREAT TALES OF FANTASY AND IMAGINATION.]
OUT OF THIS WORLD (ed. Julius Fast) --- 1944
[These two, though, tended to have stories by "mainstream" authors.]
PORTABLE NOVELS OF SCIENCE (ed. Donald Wollheim) --- 1945
[This contained four short novels.]
THE POCKET BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Donald Wollheim) --- 1943
Groff Conklin's THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION was published the same year as
ADVENTURES IN TIME AND SPACE (I don't know which actually appeared first)
and probably is the only real competition for AITAS as the first *major*
sf anthology.
--- jerry
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| 268.5 | | PEN::KALLIS | | Tue Oct 29 1985 16:04 | 14 |
| re .4:
>PORTABLE NOVELS OF SCIENCE (ed. Donald Wollheim) --- 1945
> [This contained four short novels.]
True, and an interesting bunch (I have a first edition of this one)
One was a Lovecraft, and the other was an unfortunately all-but-forgotten
story, _Before the Dawn_ by John Taine.
The actual title of the anthology is THE VIKING PORTABLE NOVELS OF SCIENCE.
However _Adventures Inj Time and Space_ to my mind was _the_ anthology.
Steve KaLLIS, JR.
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| 268.6 | | AKOV75::BOYAJIAN | | Wed Oct 30 1985 02:24 | 14 |
| re:.5
I have a first edition of PORTABLE NOVELS OF SCIENCE as well. I also have
a slipcased edition from some book club (I forget which one) from about
the same era. At the risk of getting pedantic, although the jacket on the
first edition said THE VIKING PORTABLE...etc., every reference book I have
that mentions it (at least four such) leaves the "VIKING" off of the title.
I'm afraid that I lean more toward Conklin's THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION
as *the* anthology, though a lot of it has to do with the fact that it was
the first non-juvenile sf book I ever read. But it's a close match between
it and ADVENTURES IN TIME AND SPACE.
--- jerry
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