Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales

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Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales
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Cover of the first edition.
Editors Isaac Asimov and Groff Conklin
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Collier Books
Publication date
1963
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages287

Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales is an anthology of science fiction short stories and poems edited by Isaac Asimov and Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Collier Books in 1963 and reprinted in 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, and 1978; a later reprint was issued by Scribner Paperback Fiction in August 1997. The book has been translated into Italian. [1]

The book collects fifty short stories and two poems by various science fiction authors, together with two introductions, one by each editor. The pieces were previously published from 1941 to 1962 in various magazines, not only of science fiction. [1]

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