num_pages: 416
description: Science fiction and fantasy stories, along with one poem, from Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine. This might be considered F&amp;SF's second best stories from its first decade. The editor of this volume avoided using stories from the nine previously published annual Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction as well as any stories that had been previously anthologized. * 6 • Introduction (A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction) • essay by Robert P. Mills * 9 • The Martian Shop • (1959) • novelette by Howard Fast * 33 • Walk Like a Mountain • [Silver John] • (1955) • shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman * 50 • Men of Iron • (1940) • shortstory by Guy Endore * 58 • Rabbits to the Moon • (1959) • shortstory by Raymond E. Banks * 74 • The Certificate • (1959) • shortstory by Avram Davidson * 79 • The Sealman • (1913) • shortstory by John Masefield * 83 • The Sky People • [Maurai] • (1959) • novelette by Poul Anderson * 131 • The Causes • (1952) • shortstory by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright ] * 143 • The Hypnoglyph • (1953) • shortstory by John Ciardi [as by John Anthony] * 154 • A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor • (1955) • poem by Ogden Nash * 159 • Spud and Cochise • (1935) • novelette by Oliver La Farge * 183 • Unto the Fourth Generation • (1959) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov * 192 • Jordan • [The People] • (1959) • novelette by Zenna Henderson * 224 • Will You Wait? • (1959) • shortstory by Alfred Bester * 232 • Proof Positive • (1947) • shortstory by Graham Greene * 237 • Shock Treatment • (1954) • novelette by J. Francis McComas * 270 • Gandolphus • [Fergus O'Breen] • (1952) • shortstory by Anthony Boucher * 280 • The Last Shall Be First • (1958) • shortstory by Robert P. Mills * 283 • A Trick or Two • (1957) • shortstory by John Novotny * 292 • Lot's Daughter • [David Jimmon] • (1954) • novelette by Ward Moore * 323 • Saturnian Celia • (1774) • letter excerpt by Horace Walpole * 325 • Fear Is a Business • (1956) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon * 345 • Meeting of Relations • (1941) • shortstory by John Collier * 348 • First Lesson • (1956) • shortstory by Mildred Clingerman * 360 • To Fell a Tree • (1959) • novelette by Robert F. Young
language: English
title: A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction
titlecomplete: A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction
characters: Fergus O'Breen, The People, David Jimmon, Silver John
genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy, Anthologies
ratings_count: 35
series: The People
publisher: Dell Books