| "The 32nd of May" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Paul Ernst
                              
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                        1935 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Atomic Power" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                John W. Campbell, Jr.
                              
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                        1934 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Blind Alley" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Isaac Asimov
                              
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                        1945 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1982 | The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Blowups Happen" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert A. Heinlein
                              
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                        1940 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1956 | Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin | 
                                             | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Conquest of Gola" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Leslie F. Stone
                              
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                        1931 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts | 
                                             | 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al | 
                                             | 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer | 
                                             | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories | 
                                             | 2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Davey Jones' Ambassador" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Raymond Z. Gallun
                              
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                        1935 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1976 | Science Fiction of the Thirties edited by Damon Knight | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Deadline" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Cleve Cartmill
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1944 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1978 | Science Fiction of the Forties edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl | 
                                             | 1981 | The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "En Route to Pluto" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Wallace West
                              
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                        1936 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Expedition" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Anthony Boucher
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1943 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "First Contact" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Murray Leinster
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1945 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Winner | 
                                              | Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories | 
                                             | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg | 
                                             | 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker | 
                                             | 1982 | The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg | 
                                             | 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman | 
                                             | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll | 
                                             | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories | 
                                             | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Flame Midget" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Frank Belknap Long
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1936 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Giant in the Earth" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Morrison Colladay
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1933 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Goldfish Bowl" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert A. Heinlein
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1942 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Great Keinplatz Experiment" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Arthur Conan Doyle
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1885 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1981 | Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Great War Syndicate" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Frank R. Stockton
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1888 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Ivy War" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                David H. Keller
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1930 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Jackdaw" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ross Rocklynne
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1942 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Killdozer!" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Theodore Sturgeon
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1944 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories | 
                                             | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker | 
                                             | 1981 | The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg | 
                                             | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Lanson Screen" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Arthur Leo Zagat
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1936 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Liquid Life" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ralph Milne Farley
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1936 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Lobby" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Clifford D. Simak
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1944 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Machine" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                John W. Campbell, Jr.
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1935 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Man Who Saved the Earth" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Austin Hall
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1919 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Monster from Nowhere" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Nelson S. Bond
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1939 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Piper's Son" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Henry Kuttner, 
                              
                            
                          
                        
                          
                            
                              C. L. Moore
                            
                           | 
                      
                        1945 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1982 | The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg | 
                                             | 1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                H. G. Wells
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1895 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Retreat to Mars" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Cecil B. White
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1927 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "A Scientist Divides" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Donald Wandrei
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1934 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Search" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                A. E. van Vogt
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1943 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Short-Circuited Probability" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Norman L. Knight
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1941 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Solution Unsatisfactory" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert A. Heinlein
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1941 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Spawn of the Stars" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Charles W. Diffin
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1930 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Edgar Allan Poe
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1844 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Terrible Sense" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Calvin Peregoy
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1938 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Tissue-Culture King" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Julian Huxley
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1926 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 2: From Wells to Heinlein edited by James Gunn | 
                                             | 1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Tricky Tonnage" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Malcolm Jameson
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1944 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Ultimate Catalyst" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                John Taine
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1939 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Ultimate Metal" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Nat Schachner
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1935 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Universe" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert A. Heinlein
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1941 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             | 1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova | 
                                             | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll | 
                                             | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Upper Level Road" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                F. Orlin Tremaine
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1935 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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