num_pages: 370
description: Contents:•11 • Editor's Note: About Science Fiction (The Golden Age of Science Fiction) • (1981) • essay by Kingsley Amis •16 • Introduction (The Golden Age of Science Fiction) • (1981) • essay by Kingsley Amis •37 • The Quest for Saint Aquin • (1951) • novelette by Anthony Boucher •56 • The Xi Effect • (1950) • shortstory by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham ] •78 • The Tunnel Under the World • (1955) • novelette by Frederik Pohl •111 • Old Hundredth • (1960) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss •124 • A Work of Art • (1956) • novelette by James Blish •141 • Harrison Bergeron • (1961) • shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. •148 • The Voices of Time • (1960) • novelette by J. G. Ballard •183 • Specialist • (1953) • shortstory by Robert Sheckley •200 • He Walked Around the Horses • [Paratime Police] • (1948) • novelette by H. Beam Piper •223 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith •239 • The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke •247 • The Streets of Askelon • (1962) • shortstory by Harry Harrison (aka The Streets of Ashkelon) •263 • The Country of the Kind • (1956) • shortstory by Damon Knight •278 • The Machine That Won the War • (1961) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov •284 • Student Body • (1953) • novelette by F. L. Wallace •306 • It's a Good Life • (1953) • shortstory by Jerome Bixby •325 • Sister Planet • (1959) • novella by Poul Anderson
language: English
title: The Golden Age of Science Fiction
titlecomplete: The Golden Age of Science Fiction
genres: Fiction, Anthologies, Science Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 49
publisher: Hutchinson & Co