Imagination Unlimited is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty, first published in hardcover by Farrar, Straus & Young in 1952. As originally published, the anthology includes thirteen stories by various authors, with an introduction and four brief essays by the editors. In the UK The Bodley Head published the work as two separate anthologies in 1953, one, containing the first six stories, under the same title as the American edition and the other, containing the remaining seven stories, as Men of Space and Time. The anthology was also reprinted in an abridged paperback edition containing seven of the stories by Berkley Books in April, 1959. Only the original edition included the introduction and the essays.[1]

Imagination Unlimited
Dust-jacket from the first edition
EditorsEverett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Young
Publication date
1952
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages430

Ten of the stories collected originally appeared in the magazine Astounding; the others came from Thrilling Wonder Stories, Imagination and Galaxy Science Fiction.[2]

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Key: I = reprinted in the abridged UK edition (1953); M = reprinted in Men of Space and Time (1953); stories in italics were reprinted in the abridged paperback edition (1959).

"Referent" was originally published under the byline "Brett Sterling". "Employment" was originally published under the byline "Lyman R. Lyon".[2]

Reception

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P. Schuyler Miller, noting that the anthology was "built around more or less scientific concepts," praised it as "a good job, well done," meeting the standards of the editors' previous projects.[3]

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  1. ^ Imagination Unlimited title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. ^ a b "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Archived from the original on 2021-01-25. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
  3. ^ "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, November 1952, p.158

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