Decade: the 1950s

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. SchmitzThe snowball effect / Katherine MacleanThe edge of the sea / Algis BudrysScanners live in vain / Cordwainer SmithThe pedestrian / Ray BradburyThe last day / Richard MathesonThe holes around Mars / Jerome BixbyThe star / Arthur C. ClarkeTwo-handed engine / Henry KuttnerThe large ant / Howard FastEarly model / Robert SheckleySail on! Sail on! / Philip José Farmer