A Science Fiction Genre Anthology by Amabel Williams Ellis (with co-editors Mably Owen and Michael Pearson). Ten volumes were produced, as well as two Omnibuses.
Works collected in Out of This World:
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Volume 1 (1960)
- "Breaking Strain" by Arthur C. Clarke (1949)
- "No Place Like Earth" by John Beyon (1951)
- "The Ruum" by Arthur Porges (1953)
- "Friday" by John Kippax (1959)
- "The Middle Of The Week After Next" by Murray Lainster (1952)
- "Placet Is A Crazy Place" by Fredric Brown (1946)
- "Chemical Plant" by Ian Williamson (1950)
- "Men Of The Ten Books" by Jack Vance (1951)
Volume 2 (1961)
- "The Trouble With Emily" by James White (1958)
- "The Dusty Death" by John Kippax (1958)
- "Another Word For Man" by Robert Presslie (1958)
- "The Railways Up On Cannis" by Colin Kapp (1959)
- "Machine Made" by JT Mc Intosh (1951)
- "But Who Can Replace A Man?" by Brian W. Aldiss (1958)
- "The Gift Of Gab" by Jack Vance (1955)
- "The Still Waters" by Lester del Rey (1955)
Volume 3 (1962)
- "Sands Our Abode" by Francis G Rayer (1959)
- "Round Trip To Esidarap" by Lloyd Biggle Jr (1960)
- "Living Space" by Isaac Asimov (1956)
- "The Apprentice" by James White (1960)
- "Baxbr" by Evelyn E Smith (1954)
- "Dumb Martian" by John Wyndham (1952)
- "Whos There" by Arthur C. Clarke (1958)
- "Ararat" by Zenna Henderson (1952)
Volume 4 (1964)
- "Inside The Comet" by Arthur C. Clarke (1960)
- "Hothouse" by Brian W. Aldiss (1961)
- "When The Engines Had To Stop" by Elis Gwyn Jones (original publication)
- "Twice Bitten" by Donald Malcolm (1963)
- "Changeling" by Amabel Williams Ellis (original publication)
- "The Astronaut" by Valentina Zhuravleva (1963)
- "Billennium" by JG Ballard (1961)
- "Six Fingered Jacks" by ER James (1962)
Volume 5 (1965)
- "Four In One" by Damon Knight (1953)
- "Bottomless Pit" by Philip E High (1963)
- "The Hour Of Letdown" by E. B. White (1951)
- "Colonial" by John Christopher (1949)
- "Badman" by John Brunner (1960)
- "Pushover Planet" by Con Pederson (1963)
- "The Fiction Machines" by Vadim Okhotnikov (1963)
- "Winthrop Was Stubborn" by William Tenn (1957)
Volume 6 (1967)
- "All the Troubles of the World" by Isaac Asimov (1958)
- "Fast Trip" by James White (1963)
- "The Sickness" by William Tenn (1955)
- "The Heart Of Blackness" by Robert Ray (1962)
- "The Aliens" by Murray Leinster (1959)
- "The Nine Billion Names Of God" by Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
- "Stimulus" by John Brunner (1962)
Volume 7 (1968)
- "The Impersonators" by CC Mac App (1967)
- "Ordeal In Space" by Robert A. Heinlein (1948)
- "The Cold Cold Box" by Howard Fast (1959)
- "To Change Their Ways" by Joseph P Martino (1967)
- "The Moon" by John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes (1958)
- "Meeting Of The Minds" by Robert Sheckley (1960)
- "An Ounce Of Dissension" by Martin Loran (1966)
- "Point Of Focus" by Robert Silverberg (1958)
Volume 8 (1970)
- "Victory Unintentional" by Isaac Asimov (1942)
- "Coco Talk" by William F Temple (1966)
- "Second Ending" by James White (1962)
- "A Discovery In The Woods" by Graham Greene (1963)
- "The Human Factor" by David Ely (1963)
- "Six Cubed Plus One" by John Rankie (1966)
Volume 9 (1972)
- "The Diamondwood Trees" by James H. Schmitz (1965)
- "Allamagoosa" by Eric Frank Russell (1955)
- "A Message For Zoo Directors" by Gerard Klein (1969)
- "The Vanishing Man" by Richard Hughes (1926)
- "At Daybreak" by Italo Calvino (1964)
- "Rich And Strange" by Amabel Williams Ellis (original publication)
- "Blemish" by John Christopher (1953)
- "Catharsis" by John Rackham (1967)
- "Mantrap" by Kathleen James (1961)
- "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Kurt Vonnegut (1954)
Volume 10 (1973)
- "Uncommon Sense" by Hal Clement (1945)
- "The Girls From Earth" by Frank M Robinson (1952)
- "A Long Spoon" by John Wyndham (1960)
- "Games Without End" by Italo Calvino (1965)
- "The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov (1958)
- "The Chessplayers" by Charles L Harness (1953)
- "The Great Judge" by A.E. van Vogt (1948)
- "The Winter People" by Gilbert Phelps (1963)
- "Dead To The World" by HA Hargreaves (1967)
- "Dreams Are Sacred" by Peter Phillips (1948)
Examples of tropes within this anthology:
- Genre Anthology: Each volume contains 6 to 10 Science Fiction stories, all of short lengths, such as Short Story, Novella, and Novelette.
- Multi-Volume Work: This Anthology by Amabel Williams Ellis ran for ten volumes (eight with Mably Owen and two with Michael Pearson). In addition, two Omnibus editions were published.
- Omnibus:
- Out of This World Choice is a republication of volumes 2 and 5.
- Volumes 3 and 4 were republished together as an unnumbered book, using the same title as the series.
- One-Word Title:
- "Friday" by John Kippax.
- "Baxbr" by Evelyn E Smith.
- "Ararat" by Zenna Henderson.
- "Hothouse" by Brian W. Aldiss.
- "Changeling" by Amabel Williams Ellis.
- "Billennium" by JG Ballard.
- "Colonial" by John Christopher.
- "Badman" by John Brunner.
- "Stimulus" by John Brunner.
- "Allamagoosa" by Eric Frank Russell.
- "Blemish" by John Christopher (1953)
- "Catharsis" by John Rackham (1967)
- "Mantrap" by Kathleen James (1961)
- Tagline: "An Anthology of Science Fiction"
- Title 1: Because the series was planned as a Multi-Volume Work from the beginning, the first volume was printed with a yellow 1 in the lower right corner of the front cover.
