After launching a series of hardcover anthologies in 1966 (with
Earthmen and Strangers) on science-fictional themes for the library market, Silverberg published several anthologies on more purely literary themes beginning with
Dark Stars in 1969 ("a book of dark dreams for a dark time") and
Great Short Novels of Science Fiction in 1970 (composed of long stories that were typically difficult to include in anthologies) and then
Alpha One in 1970, the first of a series of anthologies intended to "center on no particular theme except that of literary quality." Subsequent volumes appeared at roughly yearly intervals, switching from Ballantine to Berkley with volume 6, and lasting through volume 9. The hardcover
Galactic Dreamers was similar in that its focus was on "science fiction as visionary literature" and thus is included in this group.
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Dark Stars, (Ballantine, 1969)
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Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, (Ballantine, 1970)
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Galactic Dreamers, (Random House, 1977)
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Alpha One, (Ballantine, 1970)
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Alpha Two, (Ballantine, 1971)
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Alpha Three, (Ballantine, 1972)
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Alpha 4, (Ballantine, 1973)
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Alpha 5, (Ballantine, 1974)
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Alpha 6, (Berkley, 1976)
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Alpha 7, (Berkley, 1977)
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Alpha 8, (Berkley, 1977)
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Alpha 9, (Berkley, 1978)
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Complete Contents by Author and Title
Brian W. Aldiss
Heresies of the Huge God
(1966)
-- Dark Stars
Incentive
(1958)
-- Galactic Dreamers
Judas Danced
(1958)
-- Alpha 4
Poor Little Warrior!
(1958)
-- Alpha One
Total Environment
(1968)
-- Alpha Three
Poul Anderson
Call Me Joe
(1957)
-- Alpha Two
Journeys End
(1957)
-- Dark Stars
The Man Who Came Early
(1956)
-- Alpha One
J. G. Ballard
The Cage of Sand
(1962)
-- Dark Stars
The Terminal Beach
(1964)
-- Alpha One
The Voices of Time
(1960)
-- Alpha Two
The Waiting Grounds
(1959)
-- Galactic Dreamers
Raymond E. Banks
The Short Ones
(1955)
-- Alpha 8
Alfred Bester
5,271,009
(1954)
-- Alpha 4
The Pi Man
(1959)
-- Alpha One
James Blish
Common Time
(1953)
-- Galactic Dreamers
A Dusk of Idols
(1961)
-- Alpha 8
On the Wall of the Lodge
(by JB & Virginia Kidd)
(1962)
-- Dark Stars
Testament of Andros
(1953)
-- Alpha One
We All Die Naked
(1969)
-- Alpha 4
Anthony Boucher
Transfer Point
(1950)
-- Alpha 7
John Brunner
The Totally Rich
(1963)
-- Dark Stars
Algis Budrys
For Love
(1962)
-- Alpha 7
Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night
(1961)
-- Alpha Two
John W. Campbell, Jr.
Night
(1935)
-- Galactic Dreamers
Terry Carr
Brown Robert
(1962)
-- Alpha 6
In His Image
(1971)
-- Alpha 4
Rejoice, Rejoice, We Have No Choice
(1974)
-- Alpha 7
A. Bertram Chandler
Giant Killer
(1945)
-- Great Short Novels of Science Fiction
Arthur C. Clarke
Rescue Party
(1946)
-- Alpha Three
John Clute
A Man Must Die
(1966)
-- Alpha 5
L. Sprague de Camp
Aristotle and the Gun
(1958)
-- Alpha Three
Charles V. De Vet
Second Game
(by CVDV & Katherine MacLean)
(1958)
-- Great Short Novels of Science Fiction
Lester del Rey
Keepers of the House
(1956)
-- Dark Stars
Samuel R. Delany
The Star Pit
(1967)
-- Alpha 5
Philip K. Dick
Beyond Lies the Wub
(1952)
-- Alpha Three
Faith of Our Fathers
(1967)
-- Alpha Two
Impostor
(1953)
-- Dark Stars
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
(1966)
-- Alpha 5
Gordon R. Dickson
An Honorable Death
(1961)
-- Alpha 6
Thomas M. Disch
Casablanca
(1967)
-- Alpha 4
Come to Venus Melancholy
(1965)
-- Alpha Three
Gardner Dozois
A Special Kind of Morning
(1971)
-- Alpha 5
George Alec Effinger
Live, from Berchtesgaden
(1972)
-- Alpha 5
World War Two
(1973)
-- Alpha 7
Larry Eisenberg
The Time of His Life
(1968)
-- Alpha One
Harlan Ellison
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
(1968)
-- Dark Stars
The Human Operators
(by HE & A. E. van Vogt)
(1971)
-- Alpha 8
Philip José Farmer
Mother
(1953)
-- Alpha 4
The Shadow of Space
(1967)
-- Alpha Three
The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World
(1971)
-- Alpha 9
H. L. Gold
Man of Parts
(1954)
-- Alpha 6
Wyman Guin
Beyond Bedlam
(1951)
-- Great Short Novels of Science Fiction
A Man of the Renaissance
(1964)
-- Alpha Two
Charles L. Harness
The New Reality
(1950)
-- Alpha 8
Time Trap
(1948)
-- Alpha One
Harry Harrison
The Streets of Ashkelon
(1962)
-- Dark Stars
Gerald Jonas
The Shaker Revival
(1970)
-- Alpha Two
A. K. Jorgensson
Coming-of-Age Day
(1965)
-- Dark Stars
Virginia Kidd
On the Wall of the Lodge
(by James Blish & VK)
(1962)
-- Dark Stars
Damon Knight
Dio
(1957)
-- Alpha 4
Masks
(1968)
-- Dark Stars
C. M. Kornbluth
The Last Man Left in the Bar
(1957)
-- Alpha One
The Luckiest Man in Denv
(1952)
-- Alpha 7
Shark Ship
(1958)
-- Dark Stars
That Share of Glory
(1952)
-- Alpha Two
Two Dooms
(1958)
-- Great Short Novels of Science Fiction
With These Hands
(1951)
-- Alpha 6
Michael Kurland
Think Only This of Me
(1973)
-- Alpha 8
R. A. Lafferty
All Pieces of a River Shore
(1970)
-- Alpha 4
Nine Hundred Grandmothers
(1966)
-- Alpha Three
Polity and Custom of the Camiroi
(1967)
-- Dark Stars
Sky
(1971)
-- Galactic Dreamers
Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne
(1967)
-- Alpha One
Fritz Leiber
A Deskful of Girls
(1958)
-- Dark Stars
Game for Motel Room
(1963)
-- Alpha One
When the Change-Winds Blow
(1964)
-- Alpha 8
Yesterday House
(1952)
-- Alpha 5
Katherine MacLean
Second Game
(by Charles V. De Vet & KM)
(1958)
-- Great Short Novels of Science Fiction
Barry N. Malzberg
A Galaxy Called Rome
(1975)
-- Alpha 7
A Triptych
(1969)
-- Alpha One
David I. Masson
Psychosmosis
(1966)
-- Dark Stars
Julian May
Dune Roller
(1951)
-- Alpha 7
Richard McKenna
The Night of Hoggy Darn
(1958)
-- Alpha 7
P. Schuyler Miller
As Never Was
(1944)
-- Alpha 5
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Dumb Waiter
(1952)
-- Alpha 9
Larry Niven
One Face
(1965)
-- Alpha 8
Edgar Pangborn
Angel's Egg
(1951)
-- Alpha 4
Frederik Pohl
Day Million
(1966)
-- Alpha Three
Kit Reed
The Food Farm
(1967)
-- Alpha 6
Michael Rogers
Klysterman's Silent Violin
(1972)
-- Alpha 8
Joanna Russ
Nobody's Home
(1972)
-- Alpha 9
Fred Saberhagen
Goodlife
(1963)
-- Alpha 9
Idris Seabright
Short in the Chest
(1954)
-- Alpha 6
Michael Shaara
The Book
(1953)
-- Alpha 9
Orphans of the Void
(1952)
-- Alpha 7
Bob Shaw
Light of Other Days
(1966)
-- Alpha 6
Robert Sheckley
The Monsters
(1953)
-- Alpha 9
Shape
(1953)
-- Alpha 7
Warm
(1953)
-- Alpha 8
Wilma Shore
Goodbye Amanda Jean
(1970)
-- Alpha Two
Robert Silverberg
Breckenridge and the Continuum
(1973)
-- Galactic Dreamers
Road to Nightfall
(1958)
-- Dark Stars
Clifford D. Simak
Dusty Zebra
(1954)
-- Alpha 9
John Sladek
The Secret of the Old Custard
(1966)
-- Alpha 6
Cordwainer Smith
The Burning of the Brain
(1958)
-- Alpha Two
The Dead Lady of Clown Town
(1964)
-- Galactic Dreamers
Under Old Earth
(1966)
-- Alpha Three
Norman Spinrad
Carcinoma Angels
(1967)
-- Alpha 4
The Lost Continent
(1970)
-- Alpha 6
Theodore Sturgeon
The Man Who Lost the Sea
(1959)
-- Alpha 8
The Skills of Xanadu
(1956)
-- Alpha 5
William Tenn
Down Among the Dead Men
(1954)
-- Alpha 6
Eastward Ho!
(1958)
-- Alpha 4
Theodore Thomas
The Doctor
(1967)
-- Alpha One
James Tiptree, Jr.
Painwise
(1972)
-- Alpha 6
A. E. van Vogt
The Human Operators
(by Harlan Ellison & AEvV)
(1971)
-- Alpha 8
Jack Vance
The Gift of Gab
(1955)
-- Alpha Three
The Men Return
(1957)
-- Alpha Two
The Moon Moth
(1961)
-- Alpha One
The New Prime
(1951)
-- Galactic Dreamers
Telek
(1952)
-- Great Short Novels of Science Fiction
Kate Wilhelm
Baby, You Were Great
(1967)
-- Alpha 5
The Funeral
(1972)
-- Alpha 9
Jack Williamson
The Happiest Creature
(1953)
-- Alpha 8
Roger Zelazny
For a Breath I Tarry
(1966)
-- Alpha One
The Graveyard Heart
(1964)
-- Great Short Novels of Science Fiction
