Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction (Third Series)

Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction (Third Series) by Rh Value Publishing. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780517435229.

This is actually an omnibus which reprints -partly- the contents of two previously published anthologies: Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 5 (1943) (omitting The Iron Standard by Lewis Padgett) and Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 6 (1944) (omitting Far Centaurus by A.E. van Vogt; Deadline from Clive Cartmill; Sanity from Fritz Leiber and Invariant from John R. Pierce). Contents: Introduction, by Martin H. Greenberg (not credited). Stories: The Cave, by P. Schuyler Miller; The Halfling, by Leigh Brackett; Mimsy Were the Borogoves, by Lewis Padgett (filmed as The Last Mimzy); Q. U. R., by Anthony Boucher; Clash by Night, by Lawrence ODonnell; Exile, by Edmond Hamilton; Daymare, by Fredric Brown; Doorway Into Time, by C. L. Moore; The Storm, by A. E. van Vogt; The Proud Robot, by Lewis Padgett; Symbiotica, by Eric Frank Russell; The Veil of Astellar, by Leigh Brackett; City, by Clifford D. Simak; Arena, by Fredric Brown (adapted for television as a Star Trek episode); Huddling Place, by Clifford D. Simak; Kindness, by Lester del Rey; Desertion, by Clifford D. Simak; When the Bough Breaks, by Lewis Padgett; Killdozer!, by Theodore Sturgeon (made into a TV movie); No Woman Born, by C. L. Moore. The Simak stories were adapted (with others) into the book City, which won the 1953 International Fantasy Award.