Operation Future
 Cover of the first edition. | |
| Editor | Groff Conklin |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Robert Schulz |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Permabooks |
Publication date | 1955 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | xi, 356 |
Operation Future is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Permabooks in July 1955 and reprinted in September 1956.[1]
The book collects nineteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, together with an introduction by the editor. The stories were previously published from 1939-1954 in various science fiction and other magazines.[1]
Contents
[edit]- "Introduction" (Groff Conklin)
- "The Education of Drusilla Strange" (Theodore Sturgeon)
- "c/o Mr. Makepeace" (Peter Phillips)
- "Technical Slip" (John Beynon)
- "Short in the Chest" (Idris Seabright)
- "Cure for a Ylith" (Murray Leinster)
- "Exposure" (Eric Frank Russell)
- "Worrywart" (Clifford D. Simak)
- "Day Is Done" (Lester del Rey)
- "Quit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the Air" (Jack Finney)
- "Hilda" (H. B. Hickey)
- "Blood's a Rover" (Chad Oliver)
- "Call Me Adam" (Winston K. Marks)
- "Special Delivery" (Damon Knight)
- "The Garden in the Forest" (Robert F. Young)
- "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (Malcolm Jameson)
- "Games" (Katherine MacLean)
- "The Holes Around Mars" (Jerome Bixby)
- "Project" (Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore))
- "The Fun They Had" (Isaac Asimov)
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Operation Future title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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