The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Third Series

by Ed Emshwiller (Illustrator), Anthony Boucher (Editor), J. Francis McComas (Editor)

Introductory essay by Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas; Attitudes [Father Carmody] (1953) by Philip José Farmer; Maybe Just a Little One (1953) by Reginald Bretnor; The Star Gypsies (1953) by William Lindsay Gresham; The Untimely A Gavagan's Bar story (1953) by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt; Vandy, Vandy [John the Balladeer] (1953) by Manly Wade Wellman; Experiment (1953) by Kay Rogers; Lot (1953) by Ward Moore; Manuscript Found in a Vacuum (1952) by P. M. Hubbard; The Maladjusted Classroom (1953) by H. Nearing, Jr.; Child by Chronos (1953) by Charles L. Harness; New Ritual (1953) by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright ]; Devlin (1953) by William Bernard Ready; Captive Audience (1953) by Ann Warren Griffith; Snulbug (1941) by Anthony Boucher; Shepherd's Boy (1912) by Richard Middleton; Star Light, Star Bright (1953) by Alfred Bester.

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1960

About the author

From 1951 to 1979, while living in Levittown, New York, Emshwiller ("Emsh") created covers and interior illustrations for dozens of science fiction paperbacks and magazines, notably Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.[3] He debuted in the pulp magazines with about 50 interior illustrations and four cover paintings for the May to December 1951 issues of Galaxy, a monthly edited by H. L. Gold. In that year or 1952 he also did his first book cover for the U.S. paperback edition of Odd John (Galaxy Publishing Corp.) Because he experimented with a diversity of techniques, there is no typical Emsh cover. His painterly treatment for the August 1951 cover of Galaxy Science Fiction prefigures later work by Leo and Diane Dillon.