The World Turned Upside Down

Riverdale, NY: Baen, 2006. First thus. trade paperback. very good. Tom Kidd. SIGNED first trade paperback edition. Signed and inscribed to named recipient on the title page by Eric Flint. Slight edge wear to cover, pages clean and unmarked. First Baen trade paperback edition, first printing June 2006 (stated), complete number line. ISBN 9781416520689, 741 pages. Cover art by Tom Kidd. 8vo (6.25"" x 9.25"") 29 of the best SF stories of the last century, with story introductions by the editors. Contents: Preface, essay by Eric Flint; A Gun for Dinosaur, by L. Sprague de Camp (nominated, 1956 Hugo); A Pail of Air, by Fritz Leiber; All the Way Back, by Michael Shaara; Answer, by Fredric Brown; Black Destroyer, by A. E. van Vogt; Code Three, by Rick Raphael (nominated, 1964 Hugo); Environment, by Chester S. Geier; Goblin Night, by James H. Schmitz (nominated, 1966 Nebula); Heavy Planet, by Lee Gregor; Hunting Problem, by Robert Sheckley; Liane the Wayfarer, by Jack Vance; Omnilingual, by H. Beam Piper; Quietus, by Ross Rocklynne; Rescue Party, by Arthur C. Clarke; Shambleau, by C. L. Moore; Spawn, by P. Schuyler Miller; St. Dragon and the George, by Gordon R. Dickson; The Aliens, by Murray Leinster; The Cold Equations, by Tom Godwin; The Gentle Earth, by Christopher Anvil; The Last Command, by Keith Laumer; The Last Question, by Isaac Asimov; The Menace from Earth, by Robert A. Heinlein; The Only Thing We Learn, by C. M. Kornbluth; Thunder and Roses, by Theodore Sturgeon; Thy Rocks and Rills, by Robert E. Gilbert; Trigger Tide, by Wyman Guin; Turning Point, by Poul Anderson; Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr. (winner, 2014 Retro-Hugo for Best Novella of 1938; filmed several times as The Thing). (box g)