Science Fiction Carnival

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Science Fiction Carnival
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	edited by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
Cover artist	Adri Ames
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Shasta Publishers
Publication date	1953
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	315 pp
ISBN	NA
OCLC	1613005

Science Fiction Carnival is an anthology of humorous science fiction stories edited by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds. It was published by Shasta Publishers in 1953 in an edition of 3,500 copies. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Super Science Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Astounding, Worlds Beyond, Slant, Imagination,, Space Science Fiction, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Blue Book.

[edit] Contents

• Introduction, by Fredric Brown
• Preface, by Mack Reynolds
• "The Wheel of Time", by Robert Arthur
• "SRL Ad", by Richard Matheson
• "A Logic Named Joe", by Murray Leinster
• "Simworthy’s Circus", by Larry Shaw
• "The Well-Oiled Machine", by H. B. Fyfe
• "Venus and the Seven Sexes", by William Tenn
• "The Swordsmen of Varnis", by Clive Jackson
• "Paradox Lost", by Fredric Brown
• "Muten", by Eric Frank Russell
• "The Martians and the Coys", by Mack Reynolds
• "The Ego Machine", by Henry Kuttner
• "The Cosmic Jackpot", by George O. Smith
• "The Abduction of Abner Greer", by Nelson S. Bond

[edit] References

• Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. The Locus Index to Science Fiction (2001). Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (2001). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, Supplement 9, 2000–2001. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 594.