Future Tense

Overview:

  • Title: Future Tense
  • Author: Kendell Foster Crossen
  • Year: 1952
  • ISBN-10:
  • Publisher: Greenberg
  • Price: $3.50
  • Pages: xx+364
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Future Tense
  • Notes:
    • On copyright page: "Copyright 1952, by Kendell Foster Crossen", "Published in New York by Greenberg:Publisher and simultaneously in Toronto, Canada by Ambassador Books, Ltd."
    • OCLC also lists the 1952 copyright date, but Cole Checklist of SF Anthologies says this book was published in January 1953.
    • Price on front flap of dust jacket. "Binkley" signature visible on front jacket art.
    • Stories are divided into two sections: "On the Record" (pages 1-176) and "Off the Record" (pages 177-364.) On page 1, "On the Record" stories are described as "Stories selected from American and English magazines, none of which has ever appeared in any previous anthology." On page 177, "Off the Record" stories are described as "Stories which have never before appeared in print in any country. Some of them were especially written for 'Future Tense', while others failed to please magazine editors for one reason or another."