My Best Science Fiction Story, As Selected by 25 Outstanding Authors.

New York: Merlin Press, Inc., 1950. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), xiv, 556 pp. Very Good in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket. From this dust jacket: This is the first time the men who make science fiction -- the authors -- have had an opportunity to place before the reading public the wares they themselves prefer. In the recent past, science fiction anthologies have been put together by publishers, editors, printers, even an actor -- but not once have the men who actually produce the stuff of scientifiction had a chance to let the public in on what they consider their best. The assemblers of this volume feel that it is time the writers had their say. With this radical departure in mind they have asked twenty-five of the ablest and most widely-known writers of science fiction he has done up to the present time. The results are enclosed within these covers -- and they constitute a fresh, exciting and stirring volume which has far exceeded the fondest hopes of the publishers. It is truly a symposium which, in its release from the limitations of a single editorial judgment, covers every segment and all phases of the science fiction field without a single low spot. It is a volume which is not only entertaining but invaluable to the casual reader and the science fiction fan alike.