Starships

Overview:

  • Title: Starships
  • Author: Charles G. Waugh, Martin Harry Greenberg, Isaac Asimov
  • Year: 1983
  • ISBN-10: 0449201260
  • Publisher: Fawcett Crest / Ballantine
  • Price: C$4.25
  • Pages: 342
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Starships
  • Notes:
    • "First Ballantine Books Edition: May 1983" • Printing not stated, no number line • The artist is not credited, Sternbach's S inside a box is on the artwork • The TOC is split into three sections [not repeated in the book], each section with subtitles [also not repeated in the book] for each story in the section
      The Complement:
    • Captain [Cordwainer Smith]
    • Crew [Richard McKenna]
    • Passengers [Robert Sheckley]
    • Cargo [Christopher Anvil]
      The Type:
    • Time Relativity Ships [Doris Pitkin Buck]
    • Generation Ships [Frank M. Robinson]
    • Suspended Animation Ships [A. E. Van Vogt]
    • Cybernetic Ships [Anne McCaffrey]
    • Faster Than Light/Hyperspace Ships [James V. McConnell, note that the story title page drops the 'V.']
      The Events:
    • First Contact [A. Bertram Chandler]
    • Inspection [Eric Frank Russell]
    • Disaster [Isaac Asimov]
    • Combat [Fred Saberhagen]
    • The page numbers in the TOC correspond to a brief one-paragraph 'about-the author' that precedes the story title page and text by two pages, the latter numbers are used in the contents below • Cover printed in the US, book in Canada