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short works edited by

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, Martin H. Greenberg, and

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, the second in a series of six samplers of the field from the 1930s through the 1980s. It was first published in trade paperback by Robinson in 1989, and reissued in 2007. The first American edition was published in hardcover and trade paperback by

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, also in 1989; a second trade paperback edition appeared in 2007. In 1991 Galahad Books issued two hardcover editions under the variant titles ''Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction'' and ''Science Fiction: Classic Stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction''; under the latter title it reissued the book in August 2000, April 2004 and March 2010. The book collects ten novellas and novelettes by various science fiction authors that were originally published in the 1940s, together with an introduction by Asimov.

*"Introduction: The Age of Campbell" (

) *"Time Wants a Skeleton" (

Ross Rocklynne Ross Rocklynne (February 21, 1913 – October 29, 1988) was the pen name used by Ross Louis Rocklin, an American science fiction author active in the Golden Age of Science Fiction. He also wrote under the pen names Paul Cahendon, R. L. Rock ...

) *" The Weapons Shop" (

A. E. van Vogt Alfred Elton van Vogt ( ; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born American science fiction author. His fragmented, bizarre narrative style influenced later science fiction writers, notably Philip K. Dick. He was one of the ...

) *"Nerves" ( Lester del Rey) *"Daymare" ( Fredric Brown) *" Killdozer!" ( Theodore Sturgeon) *"No Woman Born" (

C. L. Moore Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore. She was among the first women to write in the science fiction and ...

) *" The Big and the Little" (

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E for Effort "E for Effort" is a science fiction novelette by American writer T. L. Sherred, first published in 1947, about the consequences of a time viewer, a machine that projects images of the past. It has been reprinted many times, including in '' The ...

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T. L. Sherred Thomas L. Sherred (August 27, 1915 – April 16, 1985) was an American science fiction writer. Sherred was the author of a slim body of science fiction, consisting of a collection of stories, a novel, and the beginning of a novel that was co ...

) *" With Folded Hands ..." (

Jack Williamson John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American list of science fiction authors, science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction". He is also credited with one of t ...

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