Science Fiction Carnival

Science Fiction Carnival

Infobox Book
name = Science Fiction Carnival
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = edited by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
illustrator =
cover_artist = Adri Ames
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Science fiction short stories
publisher = Shasta Publishers
release_date = 1953
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 315 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 1613005
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"Science Fiction Carnival" is an anthology of humorous science fiction stories edited by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds. It was published by Shasta Publishers in 1953 in an edition of 3,500 copies. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines "Super Science Stories", "Fantasy and Science Fiction", "Astounding", "Worlds Beyond", "Slant", "Imagination",, "Space Science Fiction", "Thrilling Wonder Stories" and "Blue Book".

Contents

* Introduction, by Fredric Brown
* Preface, by Mack Reynolds
*"The Wheel of Time", by Robert Arthur
*"SRL Ad", by Richard Matheson
*"A Logic Named Joe", by Murray Leinster
*"Simworthy’s Circus", by Larry Shaw
*"The Well-Oiled Machine", by H. B. Fyfe
*"Venus and the Seven Sexes", by William Tenn
*"The Swordsmen of Varnis", by Clive Jackson
*"Paradox Lost", by Fredric Brown
*"Muten", by Eric Frank Russell
*"The Martians and the Coys", by Mack Reynolds
*"The Ego Machine", by Henry Kuttner
*"The Cosmic Jackpot", by George O. Smith
*"The Abduction of Abner Greer", by Nelson S. Bond

References

*cite web
last = Brown
first = Charles N.
authorlink = Charles N. Brown
coauthors = William G. Contento
title = The Locus Index to Science Fiction (2001)
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publisher =
date =
url = http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/t18.htm#A390
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doi =
accessdate = 2008-04-23

*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, Supplement 9, 2000–2001 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=594| date=2001


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