The Golden Age of Science Fiction (anthology)

The Golden Age of Science Fiction is an anthology of science fiction short stories all originally published between 1949 and 1962. The stories were selected and introduced by Kingsley Amis, who also wrote an Editor's Note and a 21-page Introduction. The collection was first published by Hutchinson in 1981 and was released in paperback by Penguin in 1983.

The book includes the following stories:

1. "The Quest for Saint Aquin", by Anthony Boucher
2. "The Xi Effect", by Philip Latham
3. "The Tunnel under the World", by Frederik Pohl
4. "Old Hundredth", by Brian Aldiss
5. "A Work of Art", by James Blish
6. "Harrison Bergeron", by Kurt Vonnegut
7. "The Voices of Time", by J. G. Ballard
8. "Specialist", by Robert Sheckley
9. "He Walked Around the Horses", by H. Beam Piper
10. "The Game of Rat and Dragon", by Cordwainer Smith
11. "The Nine Billion Names of God", by Arthur C. Clarke
12. "The Streets of Ashkelon", by Harry Harrison
13. "The Country of the Kind", by Damon Knight
14. "The Machine that Won the War", by Isaac Asimov
15. "Student Body", by F. L. Wallace
16. "It's a Good Life", by Jerome Bixby
17. "Sister Planet", by Poul Anderson