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American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s

Just published in the prestigious Library of America series:

AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION: NINE CLASSIC NOVELS OF THE 1950S (published in two volumes), edited by Gary K. Wolfe

The nine titles selected for this project:

1953 THE SPACE MERCHANTS by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
1953 MORE THAN HUMAN by Theodore Sturgeon
1955 THE LONG TOMORROW by Leigh Brackett
1956 THE SHRINKING MAN by Richard Matheson
1956 THE STARS MY DESTINATION by Alfred Bester
1956 DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
1958 A CASE OF CONSCIENCE by James Blish
1958 WHO? by Algis Budrys
1958 THE BIG TIME by Fritz Leiber

(Note: the Leiber novel was serialized in 1958. The first book edition was 1961.)

An excellent review of this two-volume Library of America edition, by Paul Di Filippo, can be found at: http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/The-Speculator/American-Science-Fiction-Nine-Classic-Novels-of-the-1950s/ba-p/9075

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