The Best science-fiction stories and novels
By: edited by T.E. Dikty ; with the science-fiction year, by T.E. Dikty ; and the science fiction book index by Earl Kemp
Series: Ninth series
Publisher: Advent
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Science fiction; Short stories
Description: In Mississippi, a young lawyer races against time to save his grandfather from the gas chamber. The grandfather was tried three times for a Ku Klux Klan bombing which killed two civil rights workers in 1967. He was found innocent twice, but guilty the third time. By the author of A Time To Kill.
Notes: Includes bibliographies of science fiction published in 1956 and 1957.
Table of contents: title: The science-fiction year  -- T.E. Ditky; title: 2066: election day  -- Michael Shaara; title: The mile-long spaceship  -- Kate Wilhelm; title: The last victory  -- Tom Godwin; title: Call me Joe  -- Poul Anderson; title: Didn't he ramble  -- Chad Oliver; title: The queen's messenger  -- John J. McGuire; title: The other people  -- Leigh Brackett; title: Into your tent I'll creep  -- Eric Frank Russell; title: Nor dust corrupt  -- James McConnell; title: Nightsound  -- Algis J. Budrys; title: The tunesmith  -- Lloyd Biggle, Jr.; title: Hunting Machine  -- Carol Emshwiller; title: The science-fiction book index -- Earl Kemp.