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about the attempts by a pair of professors to create a union between science and the arts by experimenting with different strange devices. The book was reprinted in paperback in 1969 by Curtis Books and rereleased in 2015 by
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in 1972. The Homer C. Nearing, Jr. Distinguished
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Scide
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Alternate Worlds: The
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An Index to Literature in The New Yorker: Volumes XVI-XXX, 1940-1955
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in the Pennsylvania State University library, accessed 2021-12-27
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edited by Everett Franklin Bleiler and Thaddeus Eugene Dikty,
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Anatomy of Wonder 4: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction
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while "The Cerebrative Psittacoid" was reprinted in
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