Decade, the 1950s

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The Decade anthologies present the eighty-year history of science fiction in the most relevant way - by collecting the stories which have gone to make it up. Each volume, complete in itself, takes from a single decade the tales which are best, not only as history, but as entertainment. Contents : Grandpa / James H. Schmitz The snowball effect / Katherine Maclean The edge of the sea / Algis Budrys Scanners live in vain / Cordwainer Smith The pedestrian / Ray Bradbury The last day / Richard Matheson The holes around Mars / Jerome Bixby The star / Arthur C. Clarke Two-handed engine / Henry Kuttner The large ant / Howard Fast Early model / Robert Sheckley Sail on! Sail on! / Philip José Farmer