First Voyages

First Voyages
	First edition
Editors	Damon Knight, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Avon Books
Publication date	1981
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	373
ISBN	0-380-77586-7

First Voyages is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Damon Knight, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander, first published in paperback by Avon Books in May 1981. It is a compilation of the first published stories of twenty prominent authors in the genre, and an expansion of Knight's earlier First Flight: Maiden Voyages in Space and Time (Lancer Books, 1963), which covered ten of the same stories and authors.^[1]^[2]

"Introduction" (1963) by Damon Knight
"The Isolinguals" (1937) by L. Sprague de Camp
"The Faithful" (1938) by Lester del Rey
"Black Destroyer" (1939) by A. E. van Vogt
"Life-Line" (1939) by Robert A. Heinlein
"Ether Breather" (1939) by Theodore Sturgeon
"Proof" (1942) by Hal Clement
"Loophole" (1946) by Arthur C. Clarke
"Tomorrow's Children" (1947) by Poul Anderson
"That Only a Mother" (1948) by Judith Merril
"Scanners Live in Vain" (1950) by Cordwainer Smith
"Time Trap" (1948) by Charles L. Harness
"Defense Mechanism" (1949) by Katherine MacLean
"Angel's Egg" (1951) by Edgar Pangborn
"Come On, Wagon!" (1951) by Zenna Henderson
"Walk to the World" (1952) by Algis Budrys
"Beyond Lies the Wub" (1952) by Philip K. Dick
"My Boy Friend's Name is Jello" (1954) by Avram Davidson
"T" (1956) by Brian Aldiss
"Prima Belladonna" (1956) by J. G. Ballard
"April in Paris" (1962) by Ursula K. Le Guin

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↑ First Voyages title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
↑ First Flight title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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v t e Works by Damon Knight
Novels	Hell's Pavement (1955) Masters of Evolution (1959) The Sun Saboteurs (1961) A for Anything (1961) Beyond the Barrier (1964) The Rithian Terror (1966) Mind Switch (1965) The Man in the Tree (1984) CV (1986) The Observers (1988)
Short works	"Not with a Bang" (1949) "To Serve Man" (1950) "Babel II" (1953) "Special Delivery" (1953) "The Country of the Kind" (1955) "Dulcie and Decorum" (1955) "You're Another" (1955) "Extempore" (1956) "The Last Word" (1956) "The Enemy" (1958) "Be My Guest" (1958) "Idiot Stick" (1958) "Thing of Beauty" (1958) "Time Enough" (1960) "Shall the Dust Praise Thee?" (1967) "Masks'" (1968)
Collections	Far Out (1961) In Deep (1963) Off Center (1965) Turning On (1966) The Best of Damon Knight (1976)
Orbit (edited)	Orbit 1 (1966) Orbit 2 (1967) Orbit 3 (1968) Orbit 4 (1968) Orbit 5 (1969) Orbit 6 (1970) Orbit 7 (1970) Orbit 8 (1970) Orbit 9 (1971) Orbit 10 (1972) Orbit 11 (1972) Orbit 12 (1973) Orbit 13 (1974) Orbit 14 (1974) Orbit 15 (1974) Orbit 16 (1975) Orbit 17 (1975) The Best from Orbit (1975) Orbit 18 (1976) Orbit 19 (1977) Orbit 20 (1978) Orbit 21 (1980)
Other edited books	First Flight: Maiden Voyages in Space and Time (1963) Nebula Award Stories 1965 (1965) Science Fiction Inventions (1967) A Science Fiction Argosy (1972) Science Fiction of the Thirties (1975) First Voyages (1981)
Nonfiction	In Search of Wonder (1956)

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