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''The Best of Science Fiction'', published in 1946, is the first of more than forty science fiction anthologies edited by Groff Conklin. ==Contents== * "Concerning Science Fiction," an essay by John W. Campbell * Introduction by Groff Conklin * "Solution Unsatisfactory" (1941) by Robert A. Heinlein, credited as Anson MacDonald * "The Great War Syndicate" (abridged) (1888) by Frank R. Stockton * "The Piper's Son" (1945) by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, credited as Lewis Padgett * "Deadline" (1944) by Cleve Cartmill * "Lobby" (1944) by Clifford D. Simak * "Blowups Happen" (1940) by Robert A. Heinlein, credited as Anson MacDonald * "Atomic Power" (1934) by John W. Campbell, credited as Don A. Stuart * "Killdozer!" (1944) by Theodore Sturgeon * "Davey Jones' Ambassador" (1935) by Raymond Z. Gallun * "Giant in the Earth" (1933) by Morrison Colladay * "Goldfish Bowl" (1942) by Robert A. Heinlein, credited as Anson MacDonald * "The Ivy War" (1930) by David H. Keller * "Liquid Life" (1936) by Ralph Milne Farley * "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe * "The Great Keinplatz Experiment" (1885) by Arthur Conan Doyle * "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes" (1895) by H. G. Wells * "The Tissue-Culture King" (1926) by Julian Huxley * "The Ultimate Catalyst" (1939) by Eric Temple Bell, credited as John Taine * "The Terrible Sense" (1938) by Thomas Calvert McClary, credited as Calvin Peregoy * "A Scientist Divides" (1934) by Donald Wandrei * "Tricky Tonnage" (1944) by Malcolm Jameson * "The Lanson Screen" (1936) by Arthur Leo Zagat * "The Ultimate Metal" (1935) by Nat Schachner * "The Machine" (1935) by John W. Campbell, credited as Don A. Stuart * "Short-Circuited Probability" (1941) by Norman L. Knight * "The Search" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt * "The Upper Level Road" (1935) by F. Orlin Tremaine, credited as Warner Van Lorne * "The 32nd of May" (1935) by Paul Ernst * "The Monster from Nowhere" (1939) by Nelson S. Bond * "First Contact" (1945) by Murray Leinster * "Universe" (1941) by Robert A. Heinlein * "Blind Alley" (1945) by Isaac Asimov * "En Route to Pluto" (1936) by Wallace West * "The Retreat to Mars" (1927) by Cecil B. White * "The Man Who Saved the Earth" (1919) by Austin Hall * "Spawn of the Stars" (1930) by Charles Willard Diffin * "The Flame Midget" (1936) by Frank Belknap Long * "Expedition" (1943) by Anthony Boucher * "The Conquest of Gola" (1931) by Leslie F. Stone * "Jackdaw" (1942) by Ross Rocklynne
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