The Collected Stories of Gertrude Friedberg

Gertrude Tonkonogy Friedberg (17 March 1908 – September 17, 1989) was an American playwright and writer. She wrote several short stories through the 1950s, publishing in the magazines New World Writing, Esquire, The Atlantic, Story and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Friedberg's first—and only—collection was in 1959 in the new writer showcase Short Story 2; this volume featured five of her stories. Between 1958 and 1972, Friedberg published three science fiction stories, and one science fiction novel, The Revolving Boy (1966). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction characterizes the novel as a "minor classic in the field." Contents: The Revolving Boy, The Short and Happy Death of George Frumkin, For Whom the Girl Waits, The Wayward Cravat, Where Moth and Rust, A Nested Toy, The Vanishing Wallet, "Whose Speed? Whose Direction?"