Here Comes Civilization

Here Comes Civilization

Author	William Tenn, Edited by Mary Tabasko and James A. Mann
Cover artist	Rolf Mohr
Language	English
Series	The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn
Genre	Science Fiction
Publisher	NESFA Press
Publication date	September 2001
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	545 pp
ISBN	1-886778-28-0
OCLC	48590735
Preceded by	Immodest Proposals

Here Comes Civilization is a collection of 27 science fiction stories written by William Tenn, the second of two volumes presenting Tenn's complete body of science fiction writings. It features an introduction by Robert Silverberg and an afterword by George Zebrowski. Tenn provides afterwords to each story, describing how they came to be written.

Contents

• Here Comes Civilization essay by Robert Silverberg
• Here Comes Civilization
• "Bernie the Faust" - novelette - Playboy Nov. 1963
• "Betelgeuse Bridge" - short story - Galaxy, Apr. 1951
• "Will You Walk a Little Faster"- short story - Marvel Science Fiction, Nov. 1951
• "The House Dutiful"- short story - Astounding, Apr. 1948
• "There Were People on Bikini, There Were People on Attu"- short story - The Best of Omni Science Fiction, No.5, 1983
• The Somewhat Heavy Fantastic
• "She Only Goes Out at Night . . ." - short story - Fantastic Universe, Oct. 1956
• "Mistress Sary" - short story - Weird Tales, May 1947
• "The Malted Milk Monster" - novelette - Galaxy, Aug. 1959
• "The Human Angle" - short story - Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Oct. 1948
• "Everybody Loves Irving Bommer" - short story - Fantastic Adventures, Aug. 1951
• For the Rent
• "A Matter of Frequency" - short story - Science Fiction Quarterly, May 1951
• "The Ionian Cycle" - novelette - Thrilling Wonder Stories, Aug. 1948
• "Hallock's Madness" - novelette - Marvel Science Stories, May 1951
• "Ricardo's Virus" - short story - Planet Stories, Mar. 1953
• "The Puzzle of Priipiirii" - short story - Out of This World Adventures, Jul. 1950
• "Dud" - short story - Thrilling Wonder Stories, Apr. 1948
• "Confusion Cargo" - short story - Planet Stories, Spring 1948
• Beating Time
• "The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway" - short story - Galaxy, Oct. 1955
• "Sanctuary" - short story - Galaxy, Dec. 1957
• "Me, Myself, and I" - short story - Planet Stories, Winter 1947
• "It Ends with a Flicker" - short story - Galaxy, Dec. 1956 (published as "Of All Possible Worlds")
• "The Girl with Some Kind of Past. And George." - short story - Asimov's Science Fiction, Oct. 1993
• "Flirgleflip" - novelette - as "The Remarkable Flirgleflip" in Fantastic Adventures, May 1950
• "Errand Boy"- short story - Astounding, Jun. 1947
• "A Lamp for Medusa" - Novella - Fantastic Adventures, Oct. 1951
• "On the Fiction in Science Fiction" - Essay - Science Fiction Adventures, Mar. 1954
• Of Men and Monsters - Novel - Ballantine Books, June 1968
• Afterword: William Tenn: The Swiftest Tortoise essay by George Zebrowski

External links

• NESFA Press website
• Here Comes Civilization title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database