title: The Best of Astounding: Classic Short Novels from the Golden Age of Science Fiction
text: # The Best of Astounding: Classic Short Novels from the Golden Age of Science Fiction
  
  The Best of Astounding: Classic Short Novels from the Golden Age of Science Fiction is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by James Gunn. It was first published in hardcover by Carroll & Graf in August 1992.
  
  The book collects six novels, novellas and novelettes by various science fiction authors that were originally published in the 1930s-1950s in the science fiction magazine Astounding, together with an introduction by Poul Anderson.
  
  ## Contents
  
  * "Introduction" (Poul Anderson)
  * "Sucker Bait" (Isaac Asimov)
  * "The Stolen Dormouse" (L. Sprague de Camp)
  * "The Fifth-Dimension Tube" (Murray Leinster)
  * "The Shadow Out of Time" (H. P. Lovecraft)
  * "Bindlestiff" (James Blish)
  * "We Have Fed Our Sea" (Poul Anderson)
  