The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction

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The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1970s
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Cover of first edition
Editors Isaac Asimov
Martin H. Greenberg
Charles G. Waugh
Cover artist Roy Virgo
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Mammoth Book of ... Science Fiction
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Robinson
Publication date
1992
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages535
ISBN 1-85487-112-9
Preceded by The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction  
Followed by The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction  

The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1970s is a themed anthology of science fiction short works edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, the fifth in a series of six samplers of the field from the 1930s through the 1980s. It was first published in trade paperback by Robinson in 1992. The first American edition was issued in trade paperback by Carroll & Graf in the same year. [1]

The book collects ten novellas by various science fiction authors that were originally published in the 1970s.

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