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Judgment Night (collection)

1952 collection of short stories by C. L. Moore

1952 collection of short stories by C. L. Moore

FieldValue
nameJudgment Night
imageJudgement Night (collection) cover.jpg
captionDust-jacket from the first edition.
authorC. L. Moore
cover_artistFrank Kelly Freas
countryUnited States
languageEnglish
genreScience fiction
publisherGnome Press
release_date1952
media_typePrint (hardback)
pages344

Judgment Night is a 1952 collection of science fiction stories by American writer C. L. Moore. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1952 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collection contains the stories that Moore selected as the best of her longer work. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Astounding SF.

Contents

  • "Judgment Night" (short novel)
  • "Paradise Street" (novella)
  • "Promised Land" (novelette)
  • "The Code" (novelette)
  • "Heir Apparent" (novelette)

Reception

Reviewer Groff Conklin characterized Judgment Night as "a rich collection indeed -- varied, imagination-stretching, written without cheapness or shallowness." Boucher and McComas praised the title novel as "an opulent and exciting romance . . . written with the colorful warmth which one expects of Miss Moore." In 1970, Algis Budrys characterized the title novel as a "masterpiece."

References

Sources

  • Electronic edition at Singularity&Co.
  • {{cite web | archive-date = 2008-06-28 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080628031524/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/t71.htm#A1554 | url-status = dead

References

  1. "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]'', May 1953, p.120
  2. "Recommended Reading," ''[[F&SF]]'', April 1953, p.98
  3. "Galaxy Bookshelf", [[Galaxy Science Fiction. ''Galaxy'']], July 1970, p.104
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