Analog's Expanding Universe

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Analog's Expanding Universe
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Cover of first edition
Editor Stanley Schmidt
Cover artist Vincent Di Fate
Language English
Series Analog anthologies
Genre Science fiction short stories
Publisher Davis Publications
Publication date
1986
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 285 pp.
ISBN 0-681-40032-3
Preceded by Analog's From Mind to Mind: Tales of Communication
Followed by 6 Decades: The Best of Analog

Analog's Expanding Universe is the tenth in a series of anthologies of science fiction stories drawn from Analog magazine and edited by then-current Analog editor Stanley Schmidt. It was first published in hardcover by Davis Publications for Longmeadow Press in 1986. [1]

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