Or All the Seas with Oysters (collection) explained

Or All the Seas with Oysters
Author:	Avram Davidson
Cover Artist:	Richard M. Powers
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Fantasy, science fiction
Publisher:	Berkley Medallion
Release Date:	1962
Media Type:	Print (paperback)
Pages:	176 pp.
Congress:	PS3554.A924 O7 1962
Oclc:	07261881

Or All the Seas with Oysters is a collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories, written by Avram Davidson. It was first published in paperback by Berkley Medallion in 1962. The first hardcover edition was issued by White Lion in January 1976, and a second paperback edition by Pocket Books in December of the same year. An ebook edition was published by Gateway/Orion in August 2012.

Summary

The book collects eighteen novelettes and short stories by the author.

Contents

• "Or All the Seas with Oysters"
• "Up the Close and Doun the Stair"
• "Now Let Us Sleep"
• "The Grantha Sighting"
• "Help! I Am Dr. Morris Goldpepper"
• "The Sixth Season"
• "Negra Sum"
• "Or the Grasses Grow"
• "My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello"
• "The Golem"
• "Summerland"
• "King's Evil"
• "Great is Diana"
• "I Do Not Hear You, Sir"
• "Author, Author"
• "Dagon"
• "The Montavarde Camera"
• "The Woman Who Thought She Could Read"

Reception

The collection was reviewed by P. Schuyler Miller in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, February 1963, Michael Bishop in Delap's F & SF Review, March-April 1978, and Everett F. Bleiler in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1983.

Awards

The collection's title story won the 1958 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.