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Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953

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Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953
First edition dust jacket
EditorsE. F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
Published1953 (Frederick Fell)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages331
Preceded byYear's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1952 
Followed byYear's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954 

Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953 is a 1953 anthology of science fiction novels and novellas edited by E. F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty. An abridged edition was published in the UK by The Bodley Head in 1955 under the title Category Phoenix. The stories had originally appeared in 1952 in the magazines Astounding, Galaxy Science Fiction and Thrilling Wonder Stories.

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Reception

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P. Schuyler Miller noted that the editors selected stories "for variety as much as 'importance,' literary elegance, or any other such self-conscious quality."[1]

References

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  1. ^ "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, March 1954, p.157
  • Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-01-24.