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short works edited by

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, Martin H. Greenberg, and

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, the fourth 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 1991. The first American edition was issued in trade paperback by

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in the same year. A later edition, also in trade paperback, was published by The Book Company under the variant title ''The Giant Book of New World SF: Short Novels of the 1960s'' in 1997. The book collects ten novellas by various science fiction authors that were originally published in the 1960s.

*"The Eve of RUMOKO" ( Roger Zelazny) *"The Night of the Trolls" (

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) *"Mercenary" ( Mack Reynolds) *" Soldier, Ask Not" ( Gordon R. Dickson) *"

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" ( Anne McCaffrey) *"Code Three" (

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) *"How It Was When the Past Went Away" (

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) *"The Highest Treason" ( Randall Garrett) *"Hawk Among the Sparrows" ( Dean McLaughlin) *" The Suicide Express" (

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