IF YOU enjoyed the selections that made their way into the body of this book, you will almost certainly find these additional suggestions worth the trouble of tracking down. And I rather envy those of you who do, and who have the pleasure of reading them for the first time.
Stories are listed alphabetically, by author, under several categories.
Extraterrestrials include both visitors to Earth from alien planets, and the creatures men may meet in the human conquest of space. Earthly BEM covers a wide range, including dwellers in the sea or under the Earth; unplanned products of man's own ingenuity, or byproducts of his civilization; some new interpretations of common phenomena otherwise not recognized as intelligent life; and even one visitor who came from space so long ago he may as well be accorded some dubious sort of citizenship. Under the heading Robots are a number of variations from the basic definition, all of which have in common their function as thinking machines.
Mutants come in two models, human and animal. Among the latter, I have tried to include a variety of shapes and sizes, as well as attitudes; starting with insects, they range up through rats, dogs and apes, to bears. The human mutants include a number of novels in which the superman theme is handled intelligently and skillfully, as it seldom can he done in a short story (and never, never, never in a comic strip!).
Finally, the section headed Supernatural is a miscellany of the fantastic-made-credible and of the frightening-made-laughable.
EXTRATERRESTRIALS
Asimov, Isaac, "Misbegotten Missionary," in Tomorrow the Stars, Doubleday, 1951
Boucher, Anthony, "Expedition," in The Best of Science Fiction, Crown, 1946
Brackett, Leigh, "The Raffling," in Shot in the Dark, Bantam, 1950
Brown, Bill, "The Star Ducks," in The Best Science Fiction Stories, 1951, Frederick Fell, 1951
Brown, Fredric, "Mouse," in The Science Fiction Omnibus, Garden City, 1952
Campbell, John W., Jr., "Who Goes There?" in Who Goes There?, Shasta, 1952
Clement, Hal, Needle, a novel, Doubleday, 1950
Clingerman, Mildred, "Minister Without Portfolio," in Invaders of Earth, Vanguard, 1952
De Camp, L. Sprague, Rogue Queen, a novel, Doubleday, 1951
Fitzgerald, William, "The Devil of East Lupton, Vt.," in From Off This World, Merlin, 1949
Judd, Cyril, Outpost Mars, a novel, Abelard, 1952
Knight, Damon, "To Serve Man," in The Best Science Fiction Stories, 1951, Frederick Fell, 1951
Leinster, Murray, "First Contact," in The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology, Simon and Schuster, 1952
Macdonald, John D., "The Big Contest," in Science Fiction Carnival, Shasta, 1952
Rocklynne, Ross, "Jackdaw," in The Best of Science Fiction, Crown, 1946
Sarnalman, Alex, "Life on the Moon," in Shot in the Dark, Bantam, 1950
Schmitz, James, "The Witches of Karres," in The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology, Simon and Schuster, 1952
Sturgeon, Theodore, "The Hurkle is a Happy Beast," in The Science Fiction Omnibus, Garden City, 1952
Tenn, William, "Venus and the Seven Sexes" in The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Avon, 1949
Van Vogt, Alfred E., "Asylum," in Adventures in Time and Space, Random House, 1946
EARTHLY BEMS
Ernst, Paul, "The Microscopic Giants," in From Off This World, Merlin, 1949
Farley, Ralph Milne, "Liquid Life," in Great Stories of Science Fiction, Random House, 1951
Heinlein, Robert A., "They," in World of Wonder, Twayne, 1951
Kipling, Rudyard, "The Mother Hive," in Actions and Reactions, Doubleday, 1909
Ledger, Fritz, "Smoke Ghost," in Night's Dark Agents, Arkham House, 1947
Leinster, Murray, "De Profundis," in Sidewise in Time, Shasta, 1950
Russell, Eric Frank, Sinister Barrier, a novel, Fantasy Press, 1948
Sturgeon, Theodore, "Killdozer," in The Best of Science Fiction, Crown, 1946
ROBOTS
Asimov, Isaac, "Liar!" in I, Robot, Gnome, 1950
Bates, Harry, "Farewell to the Master," in Adventures in Time and Space, Random House, 1946
Boucher, Anthony, "Q. U. R.," in Adventures in Time and Space, Random House, 1946
Bradbury, Ray, "There Will Come Soft Rains," in The Martian Chronicles, Doubleday, 1950
Brown, Freckle, "Etaoin Shrdlu," in World of Wonder, Twayne, 1951
Coupling, J. J., "Period Piece," in The Science Fiction Omnibus, Garden City, 1952
La Farge, Oliver, "John the Revelator," in The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Little Brown, 1952
Leinster, Murray, "A Logic Named Joe," in Sidewise in Time, Shasta, 1950
Long, Frank Belknap, "Guest in the House," in Strange Ports of Call, Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1948
Moore, C. L., "No Woman Born," in Great Stories of Science Fiction, Random House, 1951
Padgett, Lewis, "The Twonky," in A Gnome There Was, Simon and Schuster, 1950
Tenn, William, "Child's Play," in World of Wonder, Twayne, 1951
Williamson, Jack, The Humanoids, a novel, Simon and Schuster, 1949
MUTANTS HUMAN
Heinlein, Robert A., "Universe," in The Best of Science Fiction, Crown, 1946
Matheson, Richard, "Born of Man and Woman," in The Best Science Fiction Stories, 1951, Frederick Fell, 1951
Merril, Judith, "That Only a Mother," in World of Wonder, Twayne, 1951
Padgett, Lewis, "Absalom," in Tomorrow the Stars, Doubleday, 1951
Padgett, Lewis, "The Dark Angel," in Shot in the Dark, Bantam, 1950
Russell, Eric Frank, "Metamorphosite," in Journey to Infinity, Gnome, 1951
Shiras, Wilmar, "In Hiding," The Science Fiction Omnibus, 1949, Garden City, 1952
Shims, Wilmar, "Opening Doors," The Science Fiction Omnibus, 1950, Garden City, 1952
Stapledon, Olaf, Odd John, a novel, in The Viking Portable Novels of Science, Viking, 1945; reprinted by Galaxy Novels, 1951
{unclear text in scan}, John, The Seeds of Life, a novel, Fantasy Press, 1952
Van Vogt, A.E., Slan, a novel, Simon and Schuster, 1951
Wylie, Philip, The Gladiator, a novel, Knopf, 1930; reprinted by Avon, 1951
MUTANTS, ANIMAL
Chandler, A. Bertram, "Giant Killer," in World of Wonder, Twayne, 1951
De Camp, L. Sprague, "The Exalted," in The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology, Simon and Schuster, 1952
Del Rey, Lester, "The Faithful," in And Some Were Human, Prime Press, 1948
Heinlein, Robert A., Jerry is a Man," in a forthcoming collection of stories by Heinlein, title unknown, Fantasy Press, 1952
Forges, Arthur, "The Rats," in The Best Science Fiction Stories, 1952 Frederick Fell, 1952
Sturgeon, Theodore, "Microcosmic God," in Without Sorcery, Prime Press, 1948
SUPERNATURAL
Bond, Nelson, "Union in Gehenna," in Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies, Coward-McCann, 1946
Collier, John, "Evening Primrose," in Fancies and Goodnights, Doubleday, 1951
Forster, E. M., "The Curate's Friend," in The Eternal Moment, Harcourt Brace, 1948
Kornbluth, Cyril, "The Mindworm," in The Best Science Fiction Stories, 1951, Frederick Fell, 1951
Kuttner, Henry, "Housing Problem," in a forthcoming anthology edited by Ray Bradbury, Bantam, 1952
Leiber, Fritz, "Conjure Wife," in Witches Three, Twayne, 1952
Michel, John, "The Goblins Will Get You," in The Science Fiction Carnival, Shasta, 1952
Williamson, Jack, Darker Than You Think, a novel, Fantasy Press, 1948