The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series

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.

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

Contents

Reception

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]

gollark: So what's the "issue" then, "optics"?
gollark: Maybe it would work better with a higher-res phone, who knows.
gollark: Well, it's a mildly cool but pointless thing, yes.
gollark: The last one was at someone's house, but the VR thing was some sort of "lab" environment with lots of random things in it, I don't remember much.
gollark: Google Cardboard (obviously not very high quality but at least vaguely cool), some racing game in a science museum some years back when it was still newer and shinier, and I think last year some kind of VR "lab" thing on some fancier VR setup.

References
  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.
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