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LOST STARS
FORGOTTEN SCIENCE FICTION FROM THE "BEST OF"
ANTHOLOGIES
Edited by

JEAN MARIE STINE
A Renaissance E Books publication

ISBN 1-58873-209-6

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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
TEETHING RING – James Causey
THE DIVERSIFAL – Ross Rocklynne
THE CYBER AND JUSTICE HOLMES – Frank Riley
A PECULIAR PEOPLE – Betsy Curtis
DOUGHNUT JOCKEY – Eric Fennel
THE LANSON SCREEN – Arthur Leo Zagat
SIT BY THE FIRE – Myrle Benedict
THE SUBLIME VIGIL – Chester D. Cuthbert


INTRODUCTION
Since the dawn of modern science fiction in 1926 with Hugo Gernsback'sAmazing
Stories , tuHuhere have been at least a couple of hundred anthologies presenting
"best of" stories. The first of these titled,The Best of Science Fiction, was published
in 1946 and skimmed the cream of the crop of the previous two decades of sf. By
1950, the genre was producing so much work of such high quality that an annual
series was inaugurated. Since editors often differ on just which works are "best," this
first annual series was followed by others. And, since the late 1960s, there have
generally been at least three such anthologies every year, each under the helm of a
different editor. In addition, many science fiction magazines have issued their own
stand-alone or annual anthologies, comprising the "best of" selected from among
their pages. Furthermore, other editors have put together such ingenious twists on
the idea as,My Best Science Fiction Story andScience Fiction: Editor's Choice