Judgment Night (collection)

{{short description|1952 collection of short stories by C. L. Moore}} {{Infobox book| | name = Judgment Night | title_orig = | translator = | image = Judgement Night (collection) cover.jpg | caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition. | author = C. L. Moore | illustrator = | cover_artist = Frank Kelly Freas | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Science fiction | publisher = Gnome Press | release_date = 1952 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (hardback) | pages = 344 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Judgment Night''''' is a 1952 collection of science fiction stories by American writer C. L. Moore. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1952 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collection contains the stories that Moore selected as the best of her longer work. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine ''Astounding SF''.

==Contents==

* "Judgment Night" (short novel) * "Paradise Street" (novella) * "Promised Land" (novelette) * "The Code" (novelette) * "Heir Apparent" (novelette)

==Reception==

Reviewer Groff Conklin characterized ''Judgment Night'' as "a rich collection indeed -- varied, imagination-stretching, written without cheapness or shallowness."<ref>"Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", ''Galaxy Science Fiction'', May 1953, p.120</ref> Boucher and McComas praised the title novel as "an opulent and exciting romance . . . written with the colorful warmth which one expects of Miss Moore."<ref>"Recommended Reading," ''F&SF'', April 1953, p.98</ref> In 1970, Algis Budrys characterized the title novel as a "masterpiece."<ref>"Galaxy Bookshelf", ''Galaxy'', July 1970, p.104</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}} ==Sources== *{{cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker |author2=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=300–301 | year=1998}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20150410095204/http://singularity.co/index.php/our-ebooks/our-authors/item/judgment-night Electronic edition] at Singularity&Co. *{{cite web | last = Contento | first = William G. | authorlink = | title = Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections | work = | publisher = | url = http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/t71.htm#A1554 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-02-25 | archive-date = 2008-06-28 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080628031524/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/t71.htm#A1554 | url-status = dead }}

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