Element 79 (anthology)

Element 79 is a collection of science fiction short stories authored by English astronomer and writer Fred Hoyle^[1] and published in 1969. Included in the anthology is the eponymous short story, Element 79. The collection takes its name from the atomic number of the seventy-ninth element, gold.

Contents

The anthology includes fifteen short stories:

• Zoomen
• Pym Makes His Point
• The Magnetosphere
• A Play's the Thing
• Cattle Trucks
• Welcome to Slippage City
• The Ax
• Agent 38
• The Martians
• Shortsighted
• A Jury of Five
• Blackmail
• Element 79
• The Judgment of Aphrodite
• The Operation

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