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The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series

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The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Authoredited by T. E. Dikty
Cover artistJ. May
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherAdvent
Publication date
1958
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages258 pp

The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series is a 1958 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by T. E. Dikty. The stories had originally appeared in 1956 and 1957 in the magazines Astounding, If, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Venture Science Fiction Magazine, Satellite and Science Fiction Stories.

Contents

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Reception

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Anthony Boucher unhappily dismissed this anthology as an "assembly of the tedious, trite and ill-reasoned," excepting only Anderson's story as "firstrate" and the short pieces from Emshwiller, Oliver and Russell as "good (if far from 'best')".[1] Damon Knight singled out the Anderson and Emshwiller stories as "first-rate," dismissing the remainder as "mostly dead-level puzzles of melodramas, each one grayly blending into a hundred similar stories you have read and mildly enjoyed."[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Recommended Reading," F&SF, August 1958, pp.104-105.
  2. ^ "In the Balance". If. December 1958, pp.110
  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 3.
  • Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Archived from the original on 2008-01-07. Retrieved 2008-01-24.