Operation Future

Operation Future is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Permabooks in July 1955 and reprinted in September 1956.^[1]

Operation Future

Cover of the first edition.
Editor	Groff Conklin
Cover artist	Robert Schulz
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Permabooks
Publication date	1955
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	xi, 356

The book collects nineteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, together with an introduction by the editor. The stories were previously published from 1939-1954 in various science fiction and other magazines.^[1]

Contents

• "Introduction" (Groff Conklin)
• "The Education of Drusilla Strange" (Theodore Sturgeon)
• "c/o Mr. Makepeace" (Peter Phillips)
• "Technical Slip" (John Beynon)
• "Short in the Chest" (Idris Seabright)
• "Cure for a Ylith" (Murray Leinster)
• "Exposure" (Eric Frank Russell)
• "Worrywart" (Clifford D. Simak)
• "Day Is Done" (Lester del Rey)
• "Quit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the Air" (Jack Finney)
• "Hilda" (H. B. Hickey)
• "Blood's a Rover" (Chad Oliver)
• "Call Me Adam" (Winston K. Marks)
• "Special Delivery" (Damon Knight)
• "The Garden in the Forest" (Robert F. Young)
• "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (Malcolm Jameson)
• "Games" (Katherine MacLean)
• "The Holes Around Mars" (Jerome Bixby)
• "Project" (Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore))
• "The Fun They Had" (Isaac Asimov)