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What's Your Favorite Anthology Series?
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Spooky1947, since we have a an existing topic on this subject:
Best All-Time SF Short Story Collections & Anthologies
I'm going to re-direct your question there, where you can see previous recommendations as well.
Best All-Time SF Short Story Collections & Anthologies
I'm going to re-direct your question there, where you can see previous recommendations as well.
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The anthology series I am most fond of is The Best of.... series done by Baltantine (I probably slaughtered the spelling)...at least the version I was familiar with came from them in paperback...this was no best of the year series. They each picked and author...they had volumes for Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Lester del Rey, and on and on with the big names. And you were hard pressed to find a stinker of a story in the bunch. I ran into these around my Golden Age for such things (that'd be around 12 years old) and it introduced me to so many of the great SF stories from the past...it's the anthology series that made me a fan for life.
If anyone has a list of all the authors included in this series, please share it...I'm trying to find them all, but darn if I know who all was included.
James Blish's Star Trek anthologies go even futher back for me, I can rember having to spend my WHOLE ALLOWANCE to get just one of those over-priced (a whole 75¢...the nerve!!) and oh so thin paperbacks. I use to read them aloud to my great grandmother, and I am sure she was board to tears...
So, what's your fav?