[Galaxy Reader 02] • The Second Galaxy Reader

This is the 2nd volume in this long running series of fiction taken from the Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine. This is much longer than future volumes, containing 31 stories many of which are modern classics.

A Saucer of Loneliness (1953) story by Theodore Sturgeon

University (1953) novelette by Peter Phillips (1920-)

Unready to Wear (1953) story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Junkyard (1953) novelette by Clifford D. Simak

Specialist (1953) story by Robert Sheckley

Not Fit for Children (1953) story by Evelyn E. Smith

Warm (1953) story by Robert Sheckley

Caretaker (1953) story by James H. Schmitz

A Bad Day for Sales (1953) story by Fritz Leiber

Minimum Sentence (1953) story by Theodore R. Cogswell

Problem on Balak (1953) story by Roger Dee

Four in One (1953) novelette by Damon Knight

Teething Ring (1953) story by James Causey

Self Portrait (1951) novelette by Bernard Wolfe

Tiger by the Tail (1951) story by Alan E. Nourse

Pillar to Post (1951) novelette by John Wyndham

A Pail of Air (1951) story by Fritz Leiber

The Year of the Jackpot (1952) novelette by Robert A. Heinlein

Star, Bright (1952) novelette by Mark Clifton

Surface Tension/Pantropy (1952) novelette by James Blish

The Snowball Effect (1952) story by Katherine MacLean

Tea Tray in the Sky (1952) story by Evelyn E. Smith

Game for Blondes (1952) story by John D. MacDonald

The Misogynist (1952) story by James E. Gunn

Lost Memory (1952) story by Peter Phillips

Command Performance (1952) novelette by Walter M. Miller Jr

The C-Chute (1951) novelette by Isaac Asimov

Lover, When You're Near Me (1952) novelette by Richard Matheson

Student Body (1953) novelette by Floyd L. Wallace

Hallucination Orbit (1952) novelette by J.T. McIntosh

A Gleeb for Earth (1953) story by Charles Schafhauser

Editor's Page: To the Hills! (1953) essay by Horace L. Gold