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7 unusual facts about Groff Conklin


Bud Webster

Webster is also known for his survey of Groff Conklin's contribution to science fiction in 41 Above the Rest: An Index and Checklist for the Anthologies of Groff Conklin.

Giants Unleashed

Giants Unleashed is an anthology of science fiction short stories compiled and edited, by Groff Conklin, and published simultaneously in the United States and Canada in 1965 by Grosset & Dunlap, Inc..

Groff Conklin

After his first science fiction anthology, The Best of Science Fiction (1946), weighing in at 785 pages, he followed with A Treasury of Science Fiction (1946).

During that period, he also edited Grosset & Dunlap's Science Fiction Classics series, which he conceived as an inexpensive alternative to hard-to-find small-press editions of such titles as Robert A. Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon and Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, although the first title in the series (Henry Kuttner's Fury) was that story's first book publication.

Four years later, Conklin and Burton Rascoe published The Smart Set Anthology (1934, reissued as The Bachelor's Companion in 1944), the first collection of stories from that important literary magazine.

Machine Made

In 1965 it had its copyright renewed, after which it was selected for inclusion in the April 1966 Giants Unleashed short story collection edited by Groff Conklin.

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It was anthologized in the collection 17 X Infinity (1963) edited by Groff Conklin.



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