Best of
Science-Fiction-Fantasy
1959
Nine Tomorrows
Isaac Asimov - 1959
Nine stories: Profession; The Feeling of Power; The Dying Night; I'm in Marsport without Hilda; The Gentle Vultures; All the Troubles of the World; Spell my Name with an S; The Last Question (one of Asimov's most often requested stories); and The Ugly Little Boy (Asimov's own personal favorite).
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One
Anthony Boucher - 1959
Heinlein.The Father-Thing by Philip K. Dick.The Children's Hour by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.Gomez by C. M. Kornbluth.The [Widget], The [Wadget], and Boff by Theodore Sturgeon.Sandra by George P. Elliott.Beyond Space and Time by Joel Townsley Rogers.The Martian Crown Jewels by Poul Anderson.The Weapon Shops of Isher by A. E. van Vogt (novel).
The Beast Master
Andre Norton - 1959
But something is upsetting the balance, and Storm is caught in the middle. He had thought the war was over but was it?“Miss Norton endows this story of a homeless, revenge-driven man with her own inimitable touch. The result is a compelling and compassionate tale.” The New York Times Book Review
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume Two
Anthony Boucher - 1959
SmithThe Other Side of the Sky: Arthur C. ClarkeThe Man Who Sold the Moon: Robert A. HeinleinMagic City: Nelson S. BondThe Morning of the Day They Did It: E. B. WhiteLetters from Laura: Mildred ClingermanThe Stars My Destination: Alfred Bester (novel)
Three to Dorsai! (Necromancer, Tactics of Mistake, Dorsai!)
Gordon R. Dickson - 1959
The Forgotten Star
Joseph Greene - 1959
As the story opens, two brothers, Jim and Ken Barry, are traveling by space ship from Earth to a new city on the moon. Aboard the space ship they discover a stowaway, young Dig Allen. Almost at once the three youths are plunged into an adventure that threatens to spell destruction for them all.Dig has set out to find his father, a space scientist who mysteriously disappeared months before. The Barry brothers agree to help Dig. Their search takes them to the "Graveyard of Space" and to Mars. There they meet Old Dorkas, the one person who is able to decipher the last message received from the missing man. Finally, the boys are forced to set out along in an unauthorized space ship. They soon find themselves marooned on a weird, forgotten world at the outer edges of the solar system where unknown to them, their greatest adventure is about to begin!