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Tomorrow, the Stars

edited by Robert A. Heinlein
with Judith Merril,
Walter Bradbury
Truman Talley
and Frederick Pohl
Cover by Stanley Meltzoff

Signet Books First Paperback Printing

Description: Mass market paperback book published by Signet Books / New American Library in 1953. The copyright page states 'First Printing, August, 1953' and no further printings are listed, making this the first paperback printing. Originally published in hardback in 1952 by Doubleday. Although only Heinlein is credited as editor on the cover and title page, ISFDB has this to say about this title. "Only Heinlein is credited on the title page. The list of actual editors reconstructed from the introduction. According to Bill Patterson, who reviewed the correspondence between the editors at one point: "Both Truman (Mac") Talley and Walter Bradbury did participate in the editorial process, but not to the same extent as Heinlein and Merril. They both read and commented on the first and second round of manuscript selections, for example. If I had to put it in descending order of amount of work it would be (1) Merril for doing all the legwork of gathering the nominated stories and sending them around and getting the permissions on the finished work; (2) Heinlein for general oversight of the selection process plus the introduction; (3) Bradbury for more comments on contents than Talley but (4) Talley did make some comments on selection. (5) Pohl comes last simply because I don't recall any direct input from him, but he may deserve to be higher on the list -- after Heinlein, say, but before Bradbury -- simply because his participation might well be hidden in Merril's."

Table of Contents:
• Introduction (Tomorrow, the Stars) • (1952) • essay by Robert A. Heinlein
• I'm Scared • (1951) • short story by Jack Finney
• The Silly Season • (1950) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Report on the Barnhouse Effect • (1950) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• The Tourist Trade • (1951) • short story by Wilson Tucker [as by Bob Tucker]
• Rainmaker • (1949) • short story by John Reese
• Absalom • (1946) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• The Monster • (1951) • short story by Lester del Rey
• Jay Score • [Jay Score / Marathon • 1] • (1941) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• Betelgeuse Bridge • (1951) • short story by William Tenn
• Survival Ship • (1951) • short story by Judith Merril
• Keyhole • (1951) • short story by Murray Leinster
• Misbegotten Missionary • (1950) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Green Patches)
• The Sack • (1950) • short story by William Morrison
• Poor Superman • (1952) • novelette by Fritz Leiber (variant of Appointment in Tomorrow 1951)

Condition: Binding - acceptable, slight spine lean, corners bumped, one spine reading crease, front and back covers have reading and bumping creases, covers a bit rubbed and soiled, insides of covers white, pages very tanned especially around the edges, book is intact with cover attached and no loose or missing pages but book is probably fragile from age. Dust jacket - none, as issued.

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