Publication: Startling Stories

Publication: Startling StoriesPublication Record # 271315
Editor: Samuel Mines
Date: 1954-00-00
Publisher: Cassell & Company
Price:
12/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: xii+301
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Notes: First published in Great Britain, 1954
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 2083617
- Reginald-1: 10165A

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

vii • Foreword: Blueprint for Tomorrow • essay by Samuel Mines (variant of Blueprint for Tomorrow 1953)
ix • Introduction (The Best from Startling Stories) • (1953) • essay by Robert A. Heinlein
1 • The Wages of Synergy • (1953) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
61 • The Perfect Gentleman • (1952) • short story by R. J. McGregor
81 • Moment Without Time • (1952) • novelette by Joel Townsley Rogers
113 • The Naming of Names • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed)
135 • No Land of Nod • (1952) • short story by Sherwood Springer
163 • Who's Cribbing? • (1953) • short story by Jack Lewis
173 • Thirty Seconds - Thirty Days • (1949) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Breaking Strain)
207 • Noise • (1952) • short story by Jack Vance
225 • What's It Like Out There? • (1952) • novelette by Edmond Hamilton
255 • Dormant • (1948) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
279 • Dark Nuptial • (1953) • short story by Robert Donald Locke

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