Decade the 1950's

The Decade anthologies present the eighty-year history of science fiction in the most relevant way - by collecting the stories which have gone to make it up. Each volume, complete in itself, takes from a single decade the tales which are best, not only as history, but as entertainment.

Contents :

Grandpa / James H. Schmitz
The snowball effect / Katherine Maclean
The edge of the sea / Algis Budrys
Scanners live in vain / Cordwainer Smith
The pedestrian / Ray Bradbury
The last day / Richard Matheson
The holes around Mars / Jerome Bixby
The star / Arthur C. Clarke
Two-handed engine / Henry Kuttner
The large ant / Howard Fast
Early model / Robert Sheckley
Sail on! Sail on! / Philip José Farmer