First of two volumes of anthology series edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, collecting some of the best short stories from John W. Campbell's legendary science fiction magazine Astounding (later renamed Analog). See also The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume Two. Stories date from 1937 to 1946.
1. Forgetfulness (1937) • novelette by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart] 2. Seeds of the Dusk [When Earth Is Old] (1938) • novelette by Raymond Z. Gallun 3. Farewell to the Master (1940) • novelette by Harry Bates 4. Trouble on Tantalus (1941) • novelette by P. Schuyler Miller 5. Time Wants a Skeleton (1941) • novella by Ross Rocklynne 6. Nightfall (1941) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 7. By His Bootstraps (1941) • novella by Robert A. Heinlein [as by Anson MacDonald] 8. The Push of a Finger (1942) • novella by Alfred Bester 9. Clash by Night [Keeps] (1943) • novella by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lawrence O'Donnell] 10. The Storm [Mixed Men] (1943) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt 11. City (1944) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak 12. First Contact (1945) • novelette by Murray Leinster 13. Giant Killer (1945) • novella by A. Bertram Chandler 14. Vintage Season (1946) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lawrence O'Donnell] 15. Placet Is a Crazy Place (1946) • short story by Fredric Brown
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Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey) was an American science fiction author best known for his character the The Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green (1973). He was also (with Brian W. Aldiss) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.