


Books in series

#1
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 1
1953
First of Pohl's immensely popular collections of stories never before in print. This is First printing, 1953.
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CONTENTS:
Country Doctor [William Morrison];
Dominoes [C. M. Kornbluth];
Idealist [Lester Del Rey];
The Night He Cried [Fritz Leiber];
Contraption [Clifford D. Simak];
The Chronoclasm [John Wyndham];
The Deserter [William Tenn];
The Man With English [H. L. Gold];
So Proudly We Hail [Judith Merril];
A Scent of Sarsparilla [Ray Bradbury];
"Nobody Here But—-" [Isaac Asimov];
The Last Weapon [Robert Sheckley];
A Wild Surmise [Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore];
The Journey [Murray Leinster];
The Nine Billion Names of God [Arthur C. Clarke]

#2
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2
1953
Contents
Disappearing Act • short story by Alfred Bester
It's a Good Life • short story by Jerome Bixby
The Clinic • (1953) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
The Happiest Creature • [Quarantine] • short story by Jack Williamson
The Odor of Thought • short story by Robert Sheckley
F Y I • short story by James Blish
Critical Factor • short story by Hal Clement
The Remorseful • short story by C.M. Kornbluth
A Pound of Cure • short story by Lester del Rey
Friend of the Family • short story by Richard Wilson
Hormones • short story by Fletcher Pratt
Conquest • short story by Anthony Boucher
The Purple Fields • short story by Robert Crane
The Congruent People • short story by Algis Budrys
Introduction (Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2) • essay by Frederik Pohl

#3
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3
1955
With this 2rd collection, STAR Science Fiction Stories demonstrates again the qualities that have made it the outstanding anthology series in its field.
-Writing charged with the excitement of new ideas, informed with knowledge of the discoveries that may soon change our lives.
-Freshness & originality that can be found only in a collection of all new stories, never before published here in either magazines or books.
The latest stories of recognized masters, the startling fiction of brilliant newcomers—they all make their appearance in STAR Science Fiction Stories, the showcase of sf at its best.
It's Such a Beautiful Day by Isaac Asimov
The Strawberry Window by Ray Bradbury
The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke
Alien by Lester del Rey
Foster, You're Dead by Philip K. Dick
Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo? by Gerald Kersh
Dance of the Dead by Richard Matheson
Any More at Home Like You? by Chad Oliver
The Devil on Salvation Bluff by Jack Vance
Guinevere for Everybody by Jack Williamson

#4
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 4
1958
A collection of original science fiction stories.
Kuttner, Henry. "A Cross of Centuries"
Kornbluth, C. M. "The Advent On Channel Twelve"
Leiber, Fritz. "Space-Time for Springers"
Wilson, Richard. "Man Working"
del Rey, Lester. "Helping Hand"
deFord, Miriam Allen. "The Long Echo"
Cooper, Edmund. "Tomorrow's Gift"
Knight, Damon. "Idiot Stick"
Gunn, James E. "The Immortals"

#5
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5
1959
Trouble with Treaties • novelette by Katherine MacLean and Tom Condit
A Touch of Grapefruit • short story by Richard Matheson
Company Store • short story by Robert Silverberg
Adrift on the Policy Level • short story by Chan Davis [as by Chandler Davis]
Sparkie's Fall • short story by Gavin Hyde
Star Descending • short story by Algis Budrys
Diplomatic Coop • short story by Daniel F. Galouye
The Scene Shifter • short story by Arthur Sellings
Hair-Raising Adventure • short story by Rosel George Brown

#6
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 6
1953
Danger! Child at Large novelette by C. L. Cottrell
Twin's Wail novelette by Elizabeth Mann Borgese
The Holy Grail short story by Tom Purdom
Angerhelm short story by Cordwainer Smith
The Dreamsman short story by Gordon R. Dickson
To Catch an Alien short story by John J. McGuire
Press Conference short story by Miriam Allen deFord
Invasion from Inner Space novelette by Howard Koch
Author

Frederik Pohl
Author · 91 books
Frederik George Pohl, Jr. was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine IF winning the Hugo for IF three years in a row. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993.