From Off This World

The Gems of Science Fiction

Editors: Leo Margulies and Oscar J. Friend.
Dust jacket illustrator: Virgil Finlay.
Hardcover edition with dust-jacket.
Boards: blue cloth with silver title.
Published by Merlin Press, Inc., 1949.
Size: 8x5 inches.
Original price: $2.95.
430 pages, Number of copies not known.

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From Off This World is an anthology that contains 18 stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines 'Wonder Stories' and 'Thrilling Wonder Stories' in 1929-1937. They were reprinted in the pulp magazine 'Startling Stories' in that magazine's "Hall of Fame Classics" section in 1938-1949. In this sense the anthology contains reprints of reprints.

Contents:

• A Martian Odyssey (1934), novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum.
• The Man Who Evolved (1931), short story by Edmond Hamilton.
• The Ancient Brain (1929), short story by Arthur G. Stangland, as by A. G. Stangland.
• The Green Torture (1931), short story by A. Rowley Hilliard.
• The World Without (1931), short story by Benson Herbert.
• The Eternal Man (1929), short story by D. D. Sharp.
• The Literary Corkscrew (1934), short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
• The Conquest of Life (1937), novelette by Otto Binder, as by Eando Binder.
• When the Earth Lived (1937), short story by Henry Kuttner.
• Through the Purple Cloud (1931), short story by Jack Williamson.
• The Cubic City (1929), short story by Louis D. Tucker.
• The Man from Mars (1939), novelette by P. Schuyler Miller.
• The Microscopic Giants (1936), short story by Paul Ernst.
• Hornets of Space (1930), short story by R. F. Starzl.
• Valley of Dreams (1934), short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum.
• The Last Woman (1932), short story by Thomas S. Gardner.
• The City of the Singing Flame (1931), short story by Clark Ashton Smith.
• Beyond the Singing Flame (1931), novelette by Clark Ashton Smith.