The Treasury of Science Fiction Classics

The Treasury of Science Fiction Classics is an anthology of science fiction stories, edited by Harold E. Kuebler, published in hardcover by Hanover House in 1954 with dust jacket art by Richard Powers. A Science Fiction Book Club edition followed later that year, but the volume has not otherwise been reprinted.

"Introduction", Harold W. Kuebler
"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion", Edgar Allan Poe
"The Star", H. G. Wells
When Worlds Collide, Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie
"The Maracot Deep", Arthur Conan Doyle
"Round the Moon", Jules Verne
"The Last Terrestrials" Olaf Stapledon
"The Machine Stops", E. M. Forster
"R.U.R.", Karel Capek, Aldous Huxley
Invasion from Mars, Howard Koch
"Edison’s Conquest of Mars", Garrett P. Serviss
"The Martians", Olaf Stapledon
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Rat", S. Fowler Wright
"The Damned Thing", Ambrose Bierce
"Mr. Strenberry’s Tale", J. B. Priestley

"Mr. Strenberry's Tale" was originally published under the title "Doomsday".

Reception

J. Francis McComas, writing in The New York Times, panned the anthology as "the most routine of scissors-and-paste jobs, done without any editorial skill whatsoever." P. Schuyler Miller similarly declared "I don't, for the life of me, know who this anthology is for", faulting its editor's selection of "overly familiar," sometimes "archaic" stories.

The Treasury of Science Fiction Classics

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Reception