The Outer Reaches

The Outer Reaches
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	edited by August Derleth
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Pellegrini & Cudahy
Publication date	1951
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	342 pp

The Outer Reaches is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth. It was first published by Pellegrini & Cudahy in 1951. The stories had originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy & Science Fiction, Astounding Stories, Blue Book, Maclean's, Worlds Beyond, Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Galaxy Science Fiction or in the anthology Invasion from Mars.

According to Derleth, the stories were selected as "favorites" by the authors involved, who provide short explanations for their choices. P. Schuyler Miller, although noting the stories "aren't all deathless prose," characterized them as "examples of the editor's good taste in writers and the authors' good taste in the difficult job of screening their own writings."^[1]

Foreword, by August Derleth
"Interloper", by Poul Anderson
"Death Sentence", by Isaac Asimov
"This Is the Land", by Nelson S. Bond
"Ylla", by Ray Bradbury
"The Green Cat", by Cleve Cartmill
"Git Along!", by L. Sprague de Camp
"Service First", by David H. Keller, M.D.
"Shock", by Henry Kuttner
"The Ship Sails at Midnight", by Fritz Leiber
"The Power", by Murray Leinster
"The Critters", by Frank Belknap Long
"Pardon My Mistake", by Fletcher Pratt
"Good Night, Mr. James", by Clifford D. Simak
"The Plutonian Drug", by Clark Ashton Smith
"Farewell to Eden, by Theodore Sturgeon
"Co-Operate—or Else!", by A. E. van Vogt
"Finality Unlimited", by Donald Wandrei

References

↑ "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, May 1952, p.161

Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-01-07.
Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 139. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

Works of August Derleth

Solar Pons	In Re: Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Solar Pons Three Problems for Solar Pons The Return of Solar Pons The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey The Casebook of Solar Pons A Praed Street Dossier The Chronicles of Solar Pons The Solar Pons Omnibus The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition The Final Adventures of Solar Pons

Horror	Someone in the Dark Something Near Not Long for this World The Survivor and Others The Mask of Cthulhu Lonesome Places The Trail of Cthulhu Mr. George and Other Odd Persons Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People The Watchers Out of Time and Others Dwellers in Darkness In Lovecraft's Shadow The Lurker at the Threshold (based on fragments by H.P. Lovecraft)

Science Fiction	Harrigan's File

Short fiction	"The Lonesome Place" "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians"

Biography	Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft

History	The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years Wisconsin Murders

Anthologies edited by	Sleep No More (editor) Who Knocks? The Night Side The Sleeping and the Dead Strange Ports of Call The Other Side of the Moon Beyond Time and Space Far Boundaries The Outer Reaches Beachheads in Space Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company Worlds of Tomorrow Portals of Tomorrow Time to Come Dark Mind, Dark Heart New Worlds for Old The Sleeping and the Dead The Time of Infinity The Unquiet Grave When Evil Wakes From Other Worlds Over the Edge Travellers by Night Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Dark Things New Horizons

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The Outer Reaches

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