Science Fiction of the 50's

xi • Preface, by Frederik Pohl xv • Introduction, by Joseph D. Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg 1 • Spectator Sport, by John D. MacDonald 9 • Feedback, by Katherine MacLean 29 • Bettyann, by Kris Neville 71 • Dark Interlude, by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds 81 • What Have I Done?, by Mark Clifton 99 • DP!, by Jack Vance 121 • The Liberation of Earth, by William Tenn 141 • A Bad Day for Sales, by Fritz Leiber 149 • Saucer of Loneliness, by Theodore Sturgeon 163 • Heirs Apparent, by Robert Abernathy 187 • 5,271,009, by Alfred Bester 223 • Short in the Chest, by Margaret St. Clair 233 • The Academy, by Robert Sheckley 257 • Nobody Bothers Gus, by Algis Budrys 271 • Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus, by Frederik Pohl 295 • A Work of Art, by James Blish 313 • The Country of the Kind, by Damon Knight 327 • The Education of Tigress McCardle, by C. M. Kornbluth 339 • The Cage, by A. Bertram Chandler 353 • The Last of the Deliverers, by Poul Anderson 367 • Adrift on the Policy Level, by Chan Davis 387 • Afterword: Love O Careless Love, by Barry N. Malzberg 391 • Selected Bibliography