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Title:Arcana Caelestia
Notice:Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

35.0. "PLAYBOY Magazine SF and Fantasy" by PERCH::PROFESSIONAL () Fri Feb 24 1984 11:33

In the 1960s (and maybe 70's and 80's, I don't read Playboy), Playboy published
a number of sf&f in the mag, then anthologised into at least 1 h/c book.


The copy I have, whose date page has disappeared, includes the following 
stories:

	The Fly				Geaorge Langelaan
	Blood brother			Charles Beaumont
	Love, Incorporated		Robert Sheckley
	A Foot in the Door		Bruce Jay Friedman
	The Vacation			Ray Bradbury
	The Never Ending Penny		Bernard Wolfe
	Bernie the Faust		William Tenn
	A Man for the Moon		Leyland Webb
	The Noise			Ken W. Purdy
	The killer in the TV set	Bruce Jay Friedman
	I remember Babylon		Arthur C. Clarke
	Word of Honour			Robert Bloch
	John Grant's Little Angel	Walt Grove
	The Fiend			Frederick Pohl
	Hard Bargin			Alan E. Nourse
	The Nail and the Oracle		Theodore Sturgeon
	After				Henry Slesar
	December 28th			Theodore L. Thomas
	Spy Story			Robert Sheckley
	Punch				Frederick Pohl
	The Crooked Man			Charles Beaumont
	Who Shall Dwell			H.C.Neal
	Double Take			Jack Finney		! see P.S.
	Examination Day			Henry Slesar
	The Mission			Hugh Nissenson
	Waste Not, Want Not		John Atherton
	The Dot-Dash Bird		Bernard Wolfe
	The Sensible Man		Avram Davidson
	Souvenir			J.G.Ballard
	Puppet Show			Fredric Brown
	The Room			Ray Russell
	Dial "F" for Frankenstein	Arthur C. Clarke

				=*=
 

Are there any more anthologies like this? This must be one of the best 
collections I've ever read! What present-day magazines have this calibre of
stories?

I read an OMNI anthology or two, but they were in mag format themselves.

Did Playboy publish any more? I'd love to know.



andy leslie

P.S. Double Take is the short story that begat a GREAT book! ( and a POOR 
	film) 
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35.1ROYAL::RAVANThu Mar 01 1984 19:065
I don't remember seeing any more Playboy sf anthologies, but they
did a similar book on horror stories (excellent), and I believe
a mystery and an adventure one as well.

-B
35.2PUFFIN::GRUBERFri Mar 02 1984 15:243
For what its worth, Robert Anton Wilson used to be an editor at Playboy.

Mike
35.3AKOV68::BOYAJIANFri Mar 09 1984 12:088
Hi, I've been USENET hacking for a couple of months now, but this is my
first contrib to the NOTES. I answered the Playboy SF & F question in
SFL. It's long, so I won't repost it here, but if anyone reading this
that doesn't get SFL wants the list (contents and all), send me mail and
I'll post it to you.

			---jayembee (Jerry Boyajian)