Last month, someone gifted me with a copy of Adventures in Time and Space. It is the 1990 reprint but still, this is one of the most important science fiction anthologies ever published. The first edition from Random House was from 1946. 35 stories over 1004 pages! There were some mass market paperbacks derived from it over the years including four printings from Ballantine/Del Rey from 1975 to 1979 in trade paperback format.
Most of the contents are from the John W. Campbell era of Astounding Science Fiction. There are a few stories from the F. Orlin Tremaine era of Astounding Stories. Multiple stories by John W. Campbell (as Don A. Stuart), Robert Heinlein, P. Schulyer Miller, Harry Bates, A. E. van Vogt, and Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore).
Contents:
| Introduction | Raymond J. Healy & J. Francis McComas |
| Requiem | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Forgetfulness | Don A. Stuart |
| Nerves | Lester Del Rey |
| The Sands of Time | P. Schuyler Miller |
| The Proud Robot | Lewis Padgett |
| Black Destroyer | A. E. van Vogt |
| Symbiotica | Erie Frank Russell |
| Seeds of the Dusk | Raymond Z. Gallun |
| Heavy Planet | Lee Gregor |
| Time Locker | Lewis Padgett |
| The Link | Cleve Cartmill |
| Mechanical Mice | Maurice A. Hugi |
| V-2– Rocket Cargo Ship | Willy Ley |
| Adam and No Eve | Alfred Bester |
| Nightfall | Isaac Asimov |
| A Matter of Size | Harry Bates |
| As Never Was | P. Schuyler Miller |
| Q.U.R. | Anthony Boucher |
| Who Goes There? | Don A. Stuart |
| The Roads Must Roll | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Asylum | A. E. van Vogt |
| Quietus | Ross Rocklynne |
| The Twonky | Lewis Padgett |
| Time-Travel Happens! | A. M. Phillips |
| Robot’s Return | Robert Moore Williams |
| The Blue Giraffe | L. Sprague de Camp |
| Flight Into Darkness | Webb Marlowe |
| The Weapons Shop | A. E. van Vogt |
| Farewell of the Master | Harry Bates |
| Within the Pyramid | R. DeWitt Miller |
| He Who Shrank | Henry Hasse |
| By His Bootstraps | Anson MacDonald |
| The Star Mouse | Fredric Brown |
| Correspondence Course | Raymond F. Jones |
| Brain | S. Fowler Wright |
This anthology is a good primer of late 30s-early to mid American 40s magazine science fiction.
Anson MacDonald was a pseudonym of Heinlein.
I did a three-part series on my blog about this anthology. It starts here: https://www.jamescambias.com/blog/2017/04/retro-review-famous-science-fiction-stories-part-1.html