The Eighth Galaxy Reader

Galaxy Reader #8

by Frederik Pohl (Editor / Contributor), Brian W. Aldiss (Contributor), Harry Harrison (Contributor)

If There Were No Benny Cemoli • (1963) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
Hot Planet • (1963) • short story by Hal Clement
A Day on Death Highway • (1963) • novelette by H. Chandler Elliott
Comic Inferno • (1963) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
Final Encounter • (1964) • novelette by Harry Harrison
The End of the Race • (1964) • short story by Albert Bermel
And All the Earth a Grave • (1963) • short story by C. C. MacApp
The Lonely Man • (1963) • novelette by Theodore L. Thomas
Dawningsburgh • (1962) • short story by Wallace West
Critical Mass • (1962) • novelette by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
The Big Engine • (1962) • short story by Fritz Leiber
A Bad Day for Vermin • (1964) • short story by Keith Laumer
The Varieties of the Science-Fiction Experience • essay by Frederik Pohl

Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories

237 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

Frederik George Pohl, Jr. was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine IF winning the Hugo for IF three years in a row. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993.

Reviews

[RC · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of 1960s tales of variable quality.