Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Today's Vintage Ad

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

As I recall, this was a pretty darn good anthology.

mybillcrider said...

Yes, I remember it fondly.

D.A. Trappert said...

Which story is it describing? I don't recall having ever read it.

mybillcrider said...

I can't remember. Been way too long.

Todd Mason said...

Just guessing from title, and limited process of elimination from the stories collected here I have read (not all, to be sure), the Schmitz?

Contents (view Concise Listing)
Introduction (Assignment in Tomorrow) • essay by Frederik Pohl
5,271,009 • (1954) • novelette by Alfred Bester
Mother • (1953) • novelette by Philip José Farmer
We Don't Want Any Trouble • (1953) • shortstory by James H. Schmitz
Mr. Costello, Hero • (1953) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
Hall of Mirrors • (1953) • shortstory by Fredric Brown
The Big Trip Up Yonder • (1954) • shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Back to Julie • (1954) • shortstory by Richard Wilson
The Frightened Tree • (1953) • shortstory by Algis Budrys (aka Protective Mimicry)
A Matter of Form • (1938) • novella by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold ]
Helen O'Loy • (1938) • shortstory by Lester del Rey
The Peddler's Nose • [Quarantine] • (1951) • shortstory by Jack Williamson
She Who Laughs . . . • (1952) • shortstory by Peter Phillips (1920-) (aka She Who Laughs)
The Adventurer • (1953) • shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
Angels in the Jets • (1952) • shortstory by Jerome Bixby
Official Record • (1952) • novelette by Fletcher Pratt
Subterfuge • (1943) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury

Todd Mason said...

...though the Brown might be just as likely...