But there’s a secret! The millions of well-wishers do not know the real identities of the twenty four crew. “Survival Ship” (1951), 3.5/5 (Good): The Survival, “the greatest spaceship ever engineered,” blasts off on a fifteen-year journey to Sirius (9). Van Dongen’s cover for Worlds Beyond (January 1951) I reviewed the other five previously and collated the reviews (with minor edits and links to the originals). Note: Only seven of the stories and the poem in this connection are new reads. If you enjoy her fiction, it’s probably best to pick up her omnibus Homecalling and Other Stories: The Complete Solo Short SF of Judith Merril(2005) unless you’re like me and prefer the old editions! The author would be provided with the cover art and asked to write a story containing its elements! The following three in this collection-“The Shrine of Temptation” (1962), “The Deep Down Dragon” (1961), and “The Lonely” (1963)–were “cover stories.”
She also describes a magazine “cover story” commission. For example, she ruminates on the failure of her planned novel based on the generation ship launched by The Matriarchy in “Survival Ship” (1951), “Wish Upon a Star” (1958), and “The Lonely” (1963). In addition to the merits of the tales within, I found Merril’s brief reflections on her early work fascinating. Survival Ship and Other Stories (1974) contains twelve short stories and a never-before-published poem selected by the author. Moore The Year's S-F, Summation and Honorable Mentions, by Judith Merril.Ever since I read Judith Merril’s “ Daughters of Earth” (1952), I’ve been fascinated by her subversive takes 1950s-60s gender roles and classic SF tropes. Tubb One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson The Ethicators, by Willard Marsh Birds Can't Count, by Mildred Clingerman Of Missing Persons, by Jack Finney Dreaming Is a Private Thing, by Isaac Asimov The Country of the Kind, by Damon Knight The Public Hating, by Steve Allen Home There's No Returning, by Henry Kuttner and C. Bulkhead, by Theodore Sturgeon Sense from Thought Divide, by Mark Clifton Pottage, by Zenna Henderson Nobody Bothers Gus, by Algis Budrys The Last Day of Summer, by E. Merliss The Golem, by Avram Davidson Junior, by Robert Abernathy The Cave of Night, by James E. Contents: Introduction, by Orson Welles Preface, by Judith Merril.
12mo (4.25" x 6.5") Published jointly with Gnome Press hardcover but 1 month before stated first edition on cover.
Dell mass paperback, first printing May 1956, Dell #B103, 350 pages, cover art by Richard Powers. Pages are clean and unmarked lightly tanning old book smell spine crease minor ding to lower corner on front foxing (small brown spots) on page edges.
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