The Cosmic Geoids and One Other

The Cosmic Geoids and One Other

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	John Taine
Illustrator	Lou Goldstone
Cover artist	Lou Goldstone
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date	1949
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	179 pp
OCLC	4609203

The Cosmic Geoids and One Other is a collection of two science fiction novellas by author John Taine (pseudonym of American writer Eric Temple Bell). It was first published in 1949 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 1,200 copies. The title novella is a loose sequel to Taine's novel, The Time Stream, and was later serialized in the magazine Spaceway, in three parts beginning in December 1954. The other novella, "Black Goldfish", was first serialized in the magazine Fantasy Book, in two parts beginning in 1948.

Contents

• "The Cosmic Geoids"
• "Black Goldfish"

Reception

Reviewing the volume in Astounding, Forrest J Ackerman found the two stories wildly disparate: the title piece was "truly Stapledonian, but "Black Goldfish" was "the weakest thing Taine has ever done."

Sources

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 269.
• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 36. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.