Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology

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If was an American science fiction magazine launched in March 1952 by Quinn Publications, owned by James L. Quinn. The magazine was moderately successful, though for most of its run it was not considered to be in the first tier of American science fiction magazines. If achieved its greatest success under editor Frederik Pohl, winning the Hugo Award for best professional magazine three years running from 1966 to 1968. If published many award-winning stories over its 22 years. The most prominent writer to make his first sale to If was Larry Niven, whose story "The Coldest Place" appeared in the December 1964 issue. If was merged into Galaxy Science Fiction after the December 1974 issue.
Contents:
Introduction • essay by Frederik Pohl
As IF Was in the Beginning • essay by Larry T. Shaw
Memoir • essay by Philip K. Dick; The Golden Man / novelette by Philip K. Dick
Memoir • essay by Robert Sheckley; The Battle / short story by Robert Sheckley
Last Rites / short story by Charles Beaumont
Game Preserve / short story by Rog Phillips
The Burning of the Brain [The Instrumentality of Mankind] / short story by Cordwainer Smith
Memoir • essay by Algis Budrys; The Man Who Tasted Ashes / short story by Algis Budrys
Memoir • essay by Poul Anderson; Kings Who Die / novelette by Poul Anderson
Memoir • essay by Fred Saberhagen; Fortress Ship [Berserker] / short story by Fred Saberhagen
Father of the Stars / novelette by Frederik Pohl
Trick or Treaty [Retief] • / novelette by Keith Laumer
Memoir • essay by R. A. Lafferty; Nine Hundred Grandmothers [Habitable Worlds] / short story by R. A. Lafferty
Memoir • essay by Larry Niven; Neutron Star [Known Space] / novelette by Larry Niven
Memoir • essay by Roger Zelazny; This Mortal Mountain / novelette by Roger Zelazny
Memoir • essay by Harlan Ellison; I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream / short story by Harlan Ellison
Memoir • essay by Samuel R. Delany; Driftglass / short story by Samuel R. Delany
Memoir • essay by Isaac Asimov; The Holmes-Ginsbook Device / short story by Isaac Asimov
Memoir • essay by Philip José Farmer; Down in the Black Gang / novelette by Philip José Farmer
Memoir • essay by Robert Silverberg. The Reality Trip / short story by Robert Silverberg
Memoir • essay by James Tiptree, Jr.; The Nightblooming Saurian / short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
Memoir • essay by Theodore Sturgeon; Occam's Scalpel / novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
Memoir • essay by Clifford D. Simak; Construction Shack / short story by Clifford D. Simak
Memoir • essay by Craig Strete; Time Deer / short story by Craig Strete
Afterword: Flash Point, Middle • essay by Barry N. Malzberg
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