Worlds of Tomorrow: Science Fiction with a Difference

by August Derleth (Editor)

Short-Story Anthology includes:

"The Tinkler": Poul Anderson
"The Smile": Ray Bradbury
"The Fires Within": Arthur C. Clarke
"Superiority": Arthur C. Clarke
"McIlvaine's Star": August Derleth
"Brothers Beyond the Void": Paul W. Fairman
"Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful!": Stuart Friedman
"The Dead Planet": Edmond Hamilton
"Like A Bird, Like a Fish": H.B. Hickey
"The Gentleman Is An EPWA": Carl Jacobi
"The Enchanted Forest": Fritz Leiber
"The Great Cold": Frank Belknap Long
"Line to Tomorrow": Lewis Padgett
"The Business, As Usual": Mack Reynolds
"The Gardener": Margaret St. Clair
"The Martian and the Moron": William Tenn
"Strange Harvest": Donald Wandrei

Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies

351 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1953

About the author

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the Cosmic Horror genre, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography

A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialize life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth can also be considered a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augus...]

Reviews

[Johnny · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this one! Many small tales of men finding themselves strange new experiences or in new lands. The final two parts I can't say I enjoyed but all others are quite fun.

[Eric Winter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Apparently an abbreviated ppb edition, missing a few stories. Some weird (Null-P), some creepy (The Enchanted Forest), some classic (The Dead Planet). A pleasant but unremarkable read.

[Steven Lomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

A delightful set of SF short story classics. All are fairly simple but a couple are thought provoking. My favourites are 'Gardener' and 'Null-P'.

[SciFiOne]

1976 no grade

short stories