The Best of Astounding: Classic Short Novels from the Golden Age of Science Fiction
 Cover of first edition | |
| Author | edited by James Gunn |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Tony Greco |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Carroll & Graf |
Publication date | 1992 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | x, 438 pp. |
| ISBN | 0-88184-808-5 |
The Best of Astounding: Classic Short Novels from the Golden Age of Science Fiction is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by James Gunn. It was first published in hardcover by Carroll & Graf in August 1992.[1]
The book collects six novels, novellas and novelettes by various science fiction authors that were originally published in the 1930s-1950s in the science fiction magazine Astounding, together with an introduction by Poul Anderson.
Contents
- "Introduction" (Poul Anderson)
- "Sucker Bait" (Isaac Asimov)
- "The Stolen Dormouse" (L. Sprague de Camp)
- "The Fifth-Dimension Tube" (Murray Leinster)
- "The Shadow Out of Time" (H. P. Lovecraft)
- "Bindlestiff" (James Blish)
- "We Have Fed Our Sea (Poul Anderson)