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* BestOfAnthology: Published in 1949 by editors Creator/EverettFBleiler and Creator/TEDikty, a GenreAnthology representing works found in {{Pulp Magazine}}s during the previous year. Also the first ever annual "Best Of" anthologies for ScienceFiction.
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* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: The cover has a character in a spacesuit wearing a "bubble" helmet to help market the {{Anthology}} as a ScienceFiction work.
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The first [[MultiVolumeWork annual anthology]] for any serial fiction, edited by Creator/EverettBleiler and Creator/TEDikty and published in 1949. Twelve ScienceFiction stories (both ShortStory and {{Novelette}}) from the previous year of {{Pulp Magazine}}s (1948) are collected into a single hardcover GenreAnthology.
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The first [[MultiVolumeWork annual anthology]] for any serial fiction, edited by Creator/EverettBleiler and Creator/TEDikty [[Creator/TEDikty T. E. Dikty]] and published in 1949. Twelve ScienceFiction stories (both ShortStory and {{Novelette}}) from the previous year of {{Pulp Magazine}}s (1948) are collected into a single hardcover GenreAnthology.
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The first [[MultiVolumeWork annual anthology]] for any serial fiction, edited by Creator/EverettBleiler and Creator/TEDikty and published in 1949. Twelve ScienceFiction stories (both ShortStory and {{Novelette}}) from the previous year of {{Pulp Magazine}}s (1948) are collected into a single hardcover GenreAnthology.
In addition to the preface that each of the successive volumes used, this book also includes an introduction by Creator/MelvinKorshak, about the (then-)current trends of ScienceFiction stories.
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!!Works in this {{Anthology}}:
[[index]]
* "Literature/MarsIsHeaven", by Creator/RayBradbury
* "Literature/ExMachina", by Creator/LewisPadgett
* "Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfJohnKingman", by Creator/MurrayLeinster
* "Literature/DoughnutJockey", by Creator/ErikFennel
* "Literature/{{Thang}}", by Creator/MartinGardner
* "Literature/PeriodPiece", by Creator/JJCoupling
* "Literature/{{Knock}}", by Creator/FredricBrown
* "Literature/{{Genius}}", by Creator/PoulAnderson
* "Literature/AndTheMoonBeStillAsBright", by Creator/RayBradbury
* "Literature/NoConnection", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "Literature/InHiding", by Creator/WilmarHShiras
* "Literature/HappyEnding", by Creator/HenryKuttner
[[/index]]
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!!''The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949'' contains examples of:
* DownerEnding: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something was amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] go on a killing spree.
* ExcitedShowTitle: Creator/RayBradbury's "[[Literature/MarsIsHeaven Mars is Heaven!]]"
* FakeMemories: Creator/JJCoupling's "Literature/PeriodPiece": After talking about TimeTravel during a dinner party, Smith realizes the next morning that [[TomatoInTheMirror he couldn't have memories from a thousand years ago]] if there isn't any possibility of TimeTravel.
* TheLastManHeardAKnock: Creator/FredricBrown's "{{Literature/Knock}}": The story begins by quoting a FlashFiction often known as the world's shortest horror story; "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door." It continues by [[SubvertedTrope subverting the horror]], making the knock a hopeful sign: [[spoiler:it's the return of the last woman on Earth]].
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/AndTheMoonBeStillAsBright": The title takes its name from a line of Creator/LordByron's "So We'll Go No More A-Roving".
* LotusEaterMachine: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": Part of ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles'', this story starts out as a sort of OntologicalMystery in the beginning. A crew from Earth land on Mars, which looks like Ohio at the turn of the 20th century. However, their [[NostalgiaHeaven long lost dead relatives start appearing]], and everyone gets lost in the excitement of seeing old faces again. It has a DownerEnding: [[spoiler: the residents of the town are shape-shifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] who put up the facade to throw the spacemen off guard. It works: [[SlainInTheirSleep that night, just as the Captain is beginning to realize this, his "brother" turns into an alien and stabs him to death]]. The same thing happens all over town. The next day, they have a funeral for the spacemen... and then take on their true forms and gleefully tear the ship apart.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": An expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late [[LotusEaterMachine it's a trap]] designed to lure them outside their rocketship so they can be easily murdered.
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/AndTheMoonBeStillAsBright": Cross-species disease
* NostalgiaHeaven: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": Some explorers land on Mars and are stunned to find their childhood hometown, populated by all their deceased relatives, very much alive and well. [[spoiler:[[LotusEaterMachine It's a trick]].]]
* OneWordTitle:
** Creator/PoulAnderson's "Literature/{{Genius}}"
** Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/{{Knock}}"
** Creator/MartinGardner's "Literature/{{Thang}}"
* PenName:
** Creator/LewisPadgett: "Literature/ExMachina" is attributed to Lewis Padgett, an alias used by both Creator/HenryKuttner and Creator/CLMoore, a husband-and-wife writing team.
** Creator/JJCoupling: "Literature/PeriodPiece" is credited to Coupling, a pseudonym occasionally used by Creator/JohnRPierce.
* PhysicalGod: Creator/LewisPadgett's "Literature/ExMachina": Horrifyingly, one of the main characters is revealed to be a ''de facto'' god.
* PlanetEater: Creator/MartinGardner's "{{Literature/Thang}}": The titular creature is large enough to grasp Earth between two fingers. It clears off all water and ice before chewing the planet, core and all. It, in turn, is also eaten by a planet-eater eater.
* TelepathicSpacemen: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": The [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] Martians create a LotusEaterMachine to trap the crew of a human spaceship until [[SlainInTheirSleep they're all asleep, so the Martians can murder them easily]].
* TomatoInTheMirror: Creator/JJCoupling's "Literature/PeriodPiece": Smith quickly realizes that he couldn't be a time-traveller from the twentieth century, and is actually a robot with [[FakeMemories fake memories created from records of the twentieth century]].
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In addition to the preface that each of the successive volumes used, this book also includes an introduction by Creator/MelvinKorshak, about the (then-)current trends of ScienceFiction stories.
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!!Works in this {{Anthology}}:
[[index]]
* "Literature/MarsIsHeaven", by Creator/RayBradbury
* "Literature/ExMachina", by Creator/LewisPadgett
* "Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfJohnKingman", by Creator/MurrayLeinster
* "Literature/DoughnutJockey", by Creator/ErikFennel
* "Literature/{{Thang}}", by Creator/MartinGardner
* "Literature/PeriodPiece", by Creator/JJCoupling
* "Literature/{{Knock}}", by Creator/FredricBrown
* "Literature/{{Genius}}", by Creator/PoulAnderson
* "Literature/AndTheMoonBeStillAsBright", by Creator/RayBradbury
* "Literature/NoConnection", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "Literature/InHiding", by Creator/WilmarHShiras
* "Literature/HappyEnding", by Creator/HenryKuttner
[[/index]]
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!!''The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949'' contains examples of:
* DownerEnding: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something was amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] go on a killing spree.
* ExcitedShowTitle: Creator/RayBradbury's "[[Literature/MarsIsHeaven Mars is Heaven!]]"
* FakeMemories: Creator/JJCoupling's "Literature/PeriodPiece": After talking about TimeTravel during a dinner party, Smith realizes the next morning that [[TomatoInTheMirror he couldn't have memories from a thousand years ago]] if there isn't any possibility of TimeTravel.
* TheLastManHeardAKnock: Creator/FredricBrown's "{{Literature/Knock}}": The story begins by quoting a FlashFiction often known as the world's shortest horror story; "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door." It continues by [[SubvertedTrope subverting the horror]], making the knock a hopeful sign: [[spoiler:it's the return of the last woman on Earth]].
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/AndTheMoonBeStillAsBright": The title takes its name from a line of Creator/LordByron's "So We'll Go No More A-Roving".
* LotusEaterMachine: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": Part of ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles'', this story starts out as a sort of OntologicalMystery in the beginning. A crew from Earth land on Mars, which looks like Ohio at the turn of the 20th century. However, their [[NostalgiaHeaven long lost dead relatives start appearing]], and everyone gets lost in the excitement of seeing old faces again. It has a DownerEnding: [[spoiler: the residents of the town are shape-shifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] who put up the facade to throw the spacemen off guard. It works: [[SlainInTheirSleep that night, just as the Captain is beginning to realize this, his "brother" turns into an alien and stabs him to death]]. The same thing happens all over town. The next day, they have a funeral for the spacemen... and then take on their true forms and gleefully tear the ship apart.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": An expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late [[LotusEaterMachine it's a trap]] designed to lure them outside their rocketship so they can be easily murdered.
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/AndTheMoonBeStillAsBright": Cross-species disease
* NostalgiaHeaven: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": Some explorers land on Mars and are stunned to find their childhood hometown, populated by all their deceased relatives, very much alive and well. [[spoiler:[[LotusEaterMachine It's a trick]].]]
* OneWordTitle:
** Creator/PoulAnderson's "Literature/{{Genius}}"
** Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/{{Knock}}"
** Creator/MartinGardner's "Literature/{{Thang}}"
* PenName:
** Creator/LewisPadgett: "Literature/ExMachina" is attributed to Lewis Padgett, an alias used by both Creator/HenryKuttner and Creator/CLMoore, a husband-and-wife writing team.
** Creator/JJCoupling: "Literature/PeriodPiece" is credited to Coupling, a pseudonym occasionally used by Creator/JohnRPierce.
* PhysicalGod: Creator/LewisPadgett's "Literature/ExMachina": Horrifyingly, one of the main characters is revealed to be a ''de facto'' god.
* PlanetEater: Creator/MartinGardner's "{{Literature/Thang}}": The titular creature is large enough to grasp Earth between two fingers. It clears off all water and ice before chewing the planet, core and all. It, in turn, is also eaten by a planet-eater eater.
* TelepathicSpacemen: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": The [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] Martians create a LotusEaterMachine to trap the crew of a human spaceship until [[SlainInTheirSleep they're all asleep, so the Martians can murder them easily]].
* TomatoInTheMirror: Creator/JJCoupling's "Literature/PeriodPiece": Smith quickly realizes that he couldn't be a time-traveller from the twentieth century, and is actually a robot with [[FakeMemories fake memories created from records of the twentieth century]].
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