• Publication: The Pocket Book of Science-FictionPublication Record # 45427
• Editor: Donald A. Wollheim
• Date: 1943-06-00
• Catalog ID: 214
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Price:
  $0.25^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
• Pages: x+310
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: Second printing. Date from 3rd printing.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• viii • Introduction (The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction) • (1943) • essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• 1 • By the Waters of Babylon • (1937) • short story by
  Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
  (variant of The Place of the Gods)
• 17 • Moxon's Master • (1910) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of A Night at Moxon's 1899)
• 29 • Green Thoughts • (1931) • short story by John Collier
• 51 • In the Abyss • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 71 • The Green Splotches • (1920) • novella by T. S. Stribling
• 155 • The Last Man • (1929) • novelette by Wallace West
• 186 • A Martian Odyssey • [Tweel • 1] • (1934) • novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 220 • Twilight • [Twilight • 1] • (1934) • novelette by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart]
• 247 • Microcosmic God • (1941) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 284 •
  "—And He Built a Crooked House"^?"-And He Built a Crooked House"
  • (1941) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein