The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume One

by Harry Harrison (Editor), Brian W. Aldiss (Editor), Don A. Stuart (Pseudonym)

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

530 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Thomas]

Looking at the small number of ratings for this book, one can see why the short story market is so dead, but science fiction fans should dig this out. Harrison and Aldiss are crafty in their selections that cover Astounding from 1937 to 1946. They show how editor John W. Campbell transformed the magazine from a typical ‘30s pulp into his own brand of harder science fiction that would become the model for Analog.