Science-Fiction Adventures in Dimension

Science-Fiction Adventures in Dimension is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by Groff Conklin, first published by Vanguard Press in hardcover in 1953. An abridged edition was issued by Grayson & Grayson in the UK, and an abridged paperback edition, with a different selection of stories from the original, was issued by Berkley Books; both abridgments carried unhyphenated titles.

"Introduction", Groff Conklin
"Yesterday Was Monday", Theodore Sturgeon
"Ambition", William L. Bade
"The Middle of the Week After Next", Murray Leinster
"And It Comes Out Here", Lester del Rey
"Castaway", A. Bertram Chandler
"The Good Provider", Marion Gross
"Reverse Phylogeny", Amelia Reynolds Long
"Other Tracks", William Sell
"What So Proudly We Hail...", Day Keene
"Night Meeting", Ray Bradbury
"Perfect Murder", Horace L. Gold
"The Flight That Failed," A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull
"Endowment Policy, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
"Pete Can Fix It", Raymond F. Jones
"The Mist", Peter Cartur
"The Gostak and the Doshes", Miles J. Breuer
"What If...", Isaac Asimov
"Ring Around the Redhead", John D. MacDonald
"Tiger by the Tail", Alan E. Nourse
"Way of Escape", William F. Temple
"Suburban Frontiers", Roger Flint Young
"Business of Killing", Fritz Leiber
"To Follow Knowledge", Frank Belknap Long

"Castaway" originally carried the byline "George Whitley". "The Flight That Failed" was originally credited to Hull alone. "Endowment Policy" originally carried the "Lewis Padgett" byline. "Peter Cartur" and "Roger Flint Young" were pseudonyms of Peter Grainger.

Reception

P. Schuyler Miller found Conklin to be "at his very best form" in compiling this volume, which he termed "the top anthology of 1953."

Science-Fiction Adventures in Dimension

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