Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction: Third Series

Overview:

  • Title: Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction: Third Series
  • Author: Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg
  • Year: 1984
  • ISBN-10: 0517435225
  • Publisher: Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers
  • Pages: 633
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction: Third Series
  • Notes:
    • "This 1984 edition is published by Bonanza Books..." printed on the copyright page with a complete letter-line: "h g f e d c b a".
    • No printed price (this was an "instant remainder".)
    • 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. There is only one Table of Contents and there is continuous pagination (some volumes of this series were published with each half having its own Table of Contents and pagination.)
    • The Introduction is a combination of the two introductions for the individual volumes. It is not credited here, but is credited as by Martin H. Greenberg in the original anthologies.