Science Fiction Puzzle Tales

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Science Fiction Puzzle Tales is a book written by Martin Gardner. It is a book of puzzles and short stories that relate to them. [1]

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Reception

Dave Langford reviewed Science Fiction Puzzle Tales for White Dwarf #47, and stated that "Many are familiar from Gardner's former books, but he's added new twists to fool smart alecs, and often a puzzle's solution features a variant puzzle, and so on: there are three sets of answers!" [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Langford, Dave (November 1983). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf . No. 47. Games Workshop. p. 16.