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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