Science Fiction Inventions
Science Fiction Inventions is a reprint anthology of science fiction stories, edited by Damon Knight and published by Lancer Books as an original paperback in 1967.
Contents
- "Introduction", Damon Knight
- "No, No, Not Rogov!", Cordwainer Smith
- "Rock Diver", Harry Harrison
- "Private Eye", Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore
- "The Snowball Effect", Katherine MacLean
- "The Chromium Helmet", Theodore Sturgeon
- "Employment", L. Sprague [de Camp]
- "Dreaming Is a Private Thing", Isaac Asimov
- "Invariant", John R. Pierce
- "Hunting Machine", Carol Emshwiller
- "Committee of the Whole", Frank Herbert
Reception
praised Science Fiction Inventions as "an excellent book," saying that almost every one of the stories included was "a real landmark sf story, in the especial sense that each of them either originated or first fruited a basic technological idea in such a happy combination with story values that it is impossible to touch that idea again without having to find some totally new framework for it."The Hartford Courant found the anthology "a collection of short stories by the masters of the genre, providing a comparison of methods."