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Science Fiction Inventions

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Science Fiction Inventions
First edition cover
AuthorDamon Knight (editor)
Cover artistHoot von Zitzewitz
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
Published1967 Lancer Books
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages256

Science Fiction Inventions is a reprint anthology of science fiction stories, edited by Damon Knight and published by Lancer Books as an original paperback in 1967.[1]

Contents

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"Private Eye" was originally published under the Lewis Padgett byline. "Employment" was originally credited to Lyman R. Lyon.[2]

Reception

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Algis Budrys praised Science Fiction Inventions as "an excellent book," saying that almost every one of the stories included was "a real landmark sf story, in the especial sense that each of them either originated or first fruited a basic technological idea in such a happy combination with story values that it is impossible to touch that idea again without having to find some totally new framework for it."[3]

The Hartford Courant found the anthology "a collection of short stories by the masters of the genre, providing a comparison of [their] methods."[4]

References

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  1. ^ ISFDB bibliography
  2. ^ Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
  3. ^ "Galaxy Bookshelf", Galaxy, June 1968, p.127
  4. ^ "Pick of the Pockets". Hartford Courant, January 21, 1968, p.G15