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• The Science-Fiction Year, by T. E. Dikty
  T. E. Dikty
  Thaddeus Maxim Eugene Dikty was one of the earliest science fiction anthologists.He started the first "Best of the Year" anthologies, called The Best Science Fiction, which ran from 1949 until 1957. In 1953, he married writer Julian May, and in 1957 the two started an editorial service for...
  
  
• "The Cold Equations", by Tom Godwin
  Tom Godwin
  Tom Godwin was an American science fiction author. Godwin published three novels and thirty short stories. His controversial hard SF short story "The Cold Equations" is a notable example of the mid-1950s science fiction genre.-Novels:...
  
  
• "Of Course", by Chad Oliver
  Chad Oliver
  Symmes Chadwick Oliver was an American science fiction and Western writer and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin...
  
  
• "Dominions Beyond", by Ward Moore
  Ward Moore
  Ward Moore was the working name of American author Joseph Ward Moore. Moore grew up in New York City, and later moved to Chicago, and then to California....
  
  
• "Guilty as Charged", by Arthur Porges
  Arthur Porges
  Arthur Porges [pórdžIs], was an American author of numerous short stories, most notably in the 1950s and 1960s, though he continued to write and publish stories until his death.-Life:...
  
  
• "Careless Love", by Albert C. Friborg
• "Memento Homo", by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  Walter Michael Miller, Jr. was an American science fiction author. Today he is primarily known for A Canticle for Leibowitz, the only novel he published in his lifetime. Prior to its publication he was a prolific writer of short stories.- Biography :Miller was born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida...
  
  
• "Mousetrap", by Andre Norton
  Andre Norton
  Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...
  
  
• "Christmas Trombone", by Raymond E. Banks
• "One Thousand Miles Up", by Frank M. Robinson
  Frank M. Robinson
  Frank M. Robinson is an American science fiction and techno-thriller writer.-Biography:Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois. The son of a check forger, Frank started out working as a copy boy for International Service in his teens and then became an office boy for Ziff-Davis...
  
  
• "How-2", by Clifford D. Simak
  Clifford D. Simak
  Clifford Donald Simak was an American science fiction writer. He was honored by fans with three Hugo awards and by colleagues with one Nebula award and was named the third Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1977.-Biography:Clifford Donald Simak was born in...
  
  
• "Heirs Apparent", by Robert Abernathy
  Robert Abernathy
  Robert Abernathy was an American science fiction author during the 1940s and 1950s. He was known primarily for his short stories which were published in many of the pulp magazines that flourished during the Golden Age of Science Fiction...
  
  
• "John’s Other Practice", by Winston K. Marks
• "The Inner Worlds", by William Morrison
• "The Will", by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  Walter Michael Miller, Jr. was an American science fiction author. Today he is primarily known for A Canticle for Leibowitz, the only novel he published in his lifetime. Prior to its publication he was a prolific writer of short stories.- Biography :Miller was born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida...
  
  
• "Felony", by James Causey
• "The Littlest People", by Raymond E. Banks
• "One Way Street", by Jerome Bixby
  Jerome Bixby
  Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby was an American short story writer, editor and scriptwriter, best known for his work in science fiction. He also wrote many westerns and used the pseudonyms D. B. Lewis, Harry Neal, Albert Russell, J. Russell, M. St...
  
  
• "Axolotl", by Robert Abernathy
  Robert Abernathy
  Robert Abernathy was an American science fiction author during the 1940s and 1950s. He was known primarily for his short stories which were published in many of the pulp magazines that flourished during the Golden Age of Science Fiction...
  
  
• "Exile", by Everett B. Cole
• "Nightmare Blues", by Frank Herbert
  Frank Herbert
  Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Although a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and its five sequels...
  
  
• The Science-Fiction Book Index, by Earl Kemp
  Earl Kemp
  Earl Kemp is an American science fiction editor, critic, and fan who won a Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1961 for Who Killed Science Fiction, a collection of questions and answers with top writers in the field. In 2011 a book edition of Who Killed Science Fiction was published by The Merry...