Strange Ports of Call

Strange Ports of Call
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	edited by August Derleth
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Pellegrini & Cudahy
Publication date	1948
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	393 pp

Strange Ports of Call is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth. It was first published by Pellegrini & Cudahy in 1948. The stories had originally appeared in the magazines Blue Book, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Science and Invention, Astounding Stories, Coronet, The New Review, The Black Cat, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Wonder Stories, Comet, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly and Planet Stories.

Introduction, by August Derleth
"The Cunning of the Beast", by Nelson S. Bond
"The Worm", by David H. Keller
"The Crystal Bullet", by Donald Wandrei
"The Thing From—'Outside'", by George Allan England
"At the Mountains of Madness", by H. P. Lovecraft
"Mars on the Ether", by Lord Dunsany
"The God-Box", by Howard E. Wandrei
"Mr. Bauer and the Atoms", by Fritz Leiber
"The Crystal Egg", by H. G. Wells
"John Jones’ Dollar", by Harry Stephen Keeler
"Call Him Demon", by Henry Kuttner
"Master of the Asteroid", by Clark Ashton Smith
"Guest in the House", by Frank Belknap Long
"The Lost Street", by Carl Jacobi & Clifford D. Simak
"Forgotten", by P. Schuyler Miller
"Far Centaurus", by A. E. van Vogt
"The Green Hills of Earth", by Robert A. Heinlein
"Thunder and Roses", by Theodore Sturgeon
"Blunder", by Philip Wylie
"The Million-Year Picnic", by Ray Bradbury

Reception

Theodore Sturgeon, reviewing the volume for Astounding Science Fiction, described it as "the most unusual science-fiction anthology to have been published to date." He noted that editor Derleth had designed the book "to present stories in the field which are good literary writing, and which have good writing's prime requisite, real characters."^[1]

References

↑ "Book Review", Astounding Science Fiction, November 1948, pp.105-06.

Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-01-09.
Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. pp. 138–139. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

Works of August Derleth

Solar Pons	In Re: Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Solar Pons Three Problems for Solar Pons The Return of Solar Pons The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey The Casebook of Solar Pons A Praed Street Dossier The Chronicles of Solar Pons The Solar Pons Omnibus The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition The Final Adventures of Solar Pons

Horror	Someone in the Dark Something Near Not Long for this World The Survivor and Others The Mask of Cthulhu Lonesome Places The Trail of Cthulhu Mr. George and Other Odd Persons Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People The Watchers Out of Time and Others Dwellers in Darkness In Lovecraft's Shadow The Lurker at the Threshold (based on fragments by H.P. Lovecraft)

Science Fiction	Harrigan's File

Short fiction	"The Lonesome Place" "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians"

Biography	Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft

History	The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years Wisconsin Murders

Anthologies edited by	Sleep No More (editor) Who Knocks? The Night Side The Sleeping and the Dead Strange Ports of Call The Other Side of the Moon Beyond Time and Space Far Boundaries The Outer Reaches Beachheads in Space Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company Worlds of Tomorrow Portals of Tomorrow Time to Come Dark Mind, Dark Heart New Worlds for Old The Sleeping and the Dead The Time of Infinity The Unquiet Grave When Evil Wakes From Other Worlds Over the Edge Travellers by Night Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Dark Things New Horizons

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 1/21/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.

Strange Ports of Call

Contents

Reception

References